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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Lerret on January 19, 2011 at 8:35

I am not math whiz, but when the Global Warming geeks say that we have warmed up 1 degree since the late 19th century....less than 1/10th degree per decade, AND argue it is clear evidence of warming, while we have individual years (like the last 3) that are colder than normal, and years (like in the late 90s) that are warmer than normal, and an on going argument (including that 7 of the last 10 years were the "warmest" in the last 120 years) over which decades were warmest (the 30s was...)  OK. Like I said, I am no math whiz, but statistics suggest to me that the mean variation on any given year is far greater than the standard deviation in temperatures...meaning this could all be statisical noise, not a "real" change of 1 degree.

Did you ever notice that most of the pro-Global warming advocates are physics in adacemia who get research money and most of the non-"true believers" are meteorologists in the applied science?  The biggest thorn in the side of the Global True Believers is one McIntyre, who is a math and economics guy...and has skewered the GW groups math models time and again showing they are statistically unsupportable and outright fraud.

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