On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:50:13 +0100
yttiw wrote:

On 2013-09-27 16:36:17 +0000, Lawrence13 said:

On Friday, 27 September 2013 17:00:36 UTC+1, Jim Cannon wrote:


So that was it , nothing.

Eloquently put sir.

I notice that the BBC have finally been forced to admit that the
rapidly rising global mean temperature curve has shuddered to a halt
since 1998. Maybe it takes 15 years before Aunty will admit to
anything that is not in the "nightmare scenario" media handbook?

Why should they admit something that hasn't happened? The temperature
rise has not 'shuddered to a halt since 1998.' I agree that it has
slowed but it has done this several times. Over the past 40 years,
there seem to be peaks in global temperature at roughly 8-yr intervals.


However, I also notice that immediately afterwards they move the
goalposts by trying to show another graph with only 10 year means,
and of course that still gives the impression they want - which is
'global warming is racing out of control towards armageddon'.


If, as you say, they showed 10-yr means, they did it because nobody but
a complete idiot would use annual values to show a long-term trend. This
is climate we're talking about, not weather.


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