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2015-01-30

Was The Planet Warming During The Previous N Years?

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 25% of USA adults believe that “there is no solid evidence that earth is getting warmer”.  It's true that, if you carefully cherry-pick your data, you can claim that the temperature hasn't gone up in the last N years, for ridiculously small values of N.  However, not only do you have to be extremely careful in your cherry-picking, you have to be phenomenally (perhaps deliberately) ignorant not only of how data analysis works but also of how to look at a simple graph.  Here's some data analysis and some graphs.