Originally Posted by
chignutsak
Another thing taught in basic statistics is the concept of outliers.
A month, or even a decade, of data is a fart in the wind in climatalogical time. Since we are at the tail end of an ice age, it stands to reason that things are gradually getting warmer. There is no debate there. Ice core data going back hundreds of thousands of years is enough to convince me. It shows many cycles of temperature swings and very accurate readings on greenhouse gas levels. The only debate in my mind is if man is accelerating the process. An earlier poster implied that carbon emission levels have gone down, not up, in the past few centuries. I find that hard to believe, since there are now over 6 billion people on the planet and God knows how many cattle, whose breath and emissions alone must far outstrip the wood burning activities of the population a few centuries ago.
I get the irony of the original post, but you can safely assume that kooks, political wack jobs, and corporate interests will distort things, as always.
I think you meant me. I didn't mean to imply that carbon emissions (hereafter referred to as plant food) had gone down but, as the economies have advanced the
per capita plant food emissions have gone down. As the economy becomes more complex, and the citizens more prosperous, the natural tendancy has been toward more efficient fuel. This happens without the government intervening.
I believe that if the gov't was minimally involved you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a nuke plant (with zero plant food emissions) and energy would much cheaper than it is today.