If you believe that chart shows correlation Slab Happy, why don't you plot on the years since the mid-80's? On the scale in your link, the red line will go off the top of your image, and I'd LOVE to see what the black line does.

The measure of a theory is not that they managed to curve fit/filter a very noisy data set to make a semi-matching curve to your eye. The measure is to see how well it predicts FUTURE events. As I mentioned the red line positively SKYROCKETS (literally off the chart you supplied, check the scale on the side). The black line in your chart ends 20 years ago.

The reality is none of us are climate scientists. We can decide we want to take action on something that CLEARLY 90%++++ of the most qualified people in the world say is real, and a serious problem for the planet. Or we can decide to let our kids deal with whatever mess we left behind because we are cocksure those pencil neck geeks are all out to get rich by fixin' to make up all this crap. Course the people telling us this won't get rich (climate science doesn't have stock options), but screw them anyways--they always busted the curve in geometry class.



Edited by IrishRogue (09/15/10 11:50 PM)
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