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Re:Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Glob... by tsotha on Saturday January 28, 2012 @07:37PM (#3523941)
Hah! I also used to do crap fits to curves like that when my data didn't work. You can only fit a line to the graph like that if you assume temperatures are going to rise quickly in the future. This is a joke, right?
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Re:Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Glob... by jonhendry on Saturday January 28, 2012 @08:07PM (#3524028)
Not as much of a joke as pinning your whole argument on an outlier.
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Re:Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Glob... by tsotha on Saturday January 28, 2012 @09:48PM (#3524246)
That's the point though. There's no way to know if it's an outlier or not. The AGW people are assuming it's an outlier.

I guess we'll know in ten years. My money's on serious revisions to the model.

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