Scientists blame sun for global warming

[GordMay]

The Temperature vs Pirate Population chart presents nearly interesting, but not nearly conclusive data, open to (at least 5) differing interpretations:
1. Pirates favour colder temperatures, and a warming climate causes a decline in their numbers.
2. Pirates cause colder temperatures, and their declining numbers has allowed a warming climate.
3. The 2 data sets are unrelated, and meaningless.
4. The 2 data sets are partially related, and require “artful” interpretation .
5. I don’t understand the data.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Gord,
I can understand interpretations 1,2&5, but 3 and 4 are simply irrelavent. I think that questioning the validity of the data is a lost cause. I beleive this for one reason and one reason only. This is a graph with lots of very large numbers and lines that are very intimidating. I personally know that I could not have generated this graph and therefore the person who did is a lot smarter than I am. If a person with enough intelligence to create such a pretty graph says that there is a correlation then who are we to disagree?

[GordMay]

Dread:
Therein lies the rub ~ I think I can, because he’s not, and I’m GordMay (ergo).

[Cutterman]

"We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way." Aldous Huxley (1963) ISLAND, Penguin Classics (2005) page 171.

[Lake-Effect]

It's a zombie thread! Kill it with fire!



Look away, children, for the love of God....

[Allied39]

It'll all be ok if we tax it. This would be a no issue if Gore would have made a few hundred million...but noooo, could'nt do that.

Just like the save africa money grabber concerts.....how many times must africa be saved.......from itself?

Just sayin.

[senormechanico]

OH CRAP ! Here we go again...

Mods, please HAVE MERCY ! Kill it now !

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by senormechanico

OH CRAP ! Here we go again...

Mods, please HAVE MERCY ! Kill it now !

agreed kill it fast before I have any fun

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by senormechanico
OH CRAP ! Here we go again...

Mods, please HAVE MERCY ! Kill it now !

Originally Posted by newhaul

agreed kill it fast before I have any fun

Rarely have such disparate souls spoken as one voice. Let's celebrate this rare, brief moment of accord by KILLING THIS THREAD!

Mods... C'mon, have pity...

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Rarely have such disparate souls spoken as one voice. Let's celebrate this rare, brief moment of accord by KILLING THIS THREAD!

Mods... C'mon, have pity...

the alternative is you just don't post and it will slip back asleep

[GordMay]

There are plenty of scientists happy to make dramatic predictions (with varying levels of competence).
Importantly, not every possibility that ever gets into a peer reviewed paper, is equally plausible.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Rarely have such disparate souls spoken as one voice. Let's celebrate this rare, brief moment of accord by KILLING THIS THREAD!

Mods... C'mon, have pity...

At first glance it would appear there is a majority vote in closing this thread

However, recent history has shown that voting doesn't always lead to good decisions. For example a large island out West recently voted a business man in as their President A second example on a small soggy island off NW Europe, a vote to leave may have been so badly managed that the populace are left in total despair.

Fred closed, third time lucky perhaps.

Pete