Global warming or global bias ? You read, you decide.

Here is a chart that seems to make the point for the Warming Alarmists. What goes unasked and unanswered are these questions: does this chart represent a linear equation or is it a close-up taken in the midst of a weather cycle. The former supports the Alarmists, the latter supports the Pragmatists. A second question has to do with the degree of increase. There is no reason for alarm, in this chart, because actaul temps are excluded. Midknight Review has published NASA charts for the United States showing a 130 year temperature increase of 1.5 degrees, Celsius - hardly the warming disaster that has been reported by the "Sky is falling" industry. Understand that without the "crisis" of global warming, there can be no serious Cap and Trade legislation, no tax increases, no forced transfer of wealth on the world stage.

The stated opinion (below) that temps are likely to increase "dramatically" is not a factual statement, but, rather, a reflexion of a particular bias and nothing more. Readers and students need to be careful not to confuse political opinion with scientific fact when viewing publications such as the one below. Such confusion is difficult to avoid when, in this case, a factually based chart is partnered with a politically motivated point of view -- jds.

Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.

The key point is that you can’t draw conclusions about the climate from any single weather event, but instead need to do statistical analyses across large regions to understand what is happening.

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