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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
Sigh, sometimes I hate being right.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html
This is why weaker-willed people have the urge to pretty-up the data. Even 100% conclusive data showing global warming WILL have bits that, read by someone who doesn't grasp the concept of statistical trends, "contradict" the conclusion. So it's tempting to look at it and say, " I know that the entire data set supports my conclusion, but people without the analytical training I have are going to misinterpret the full data set, so why don't I just tailor the data I publish so that to the untrained eye it matches the conclusion which I know to be right."
Again, it's a bad decision to make. The doffuses who succumbed to this temptation were correctly called out for it. But if you have to continually start each conversation by contradicting idiots that think a snow storm negates global warming, you'd start to really really wish the snow storms would stop. |
What did you mean to link? That's the Google buzz article.
Daily Show and Colbert Report had some great segments on last night and ripped on the morons who see the current snowstorms as evidence against the warming trend.