No, because that would be equally unfair. A minimum sample size would be at least 30 to fill out a normal distribution, so 30 months would be the absolute minimum to use if you were trying to gauge monthly increases or decreases. It depends on what you're trying to predict, naturally. Just like the markets. The NYSE is over a 100 years old, but you don't need to use all 100 years to predict, just as you don't need to use 4.5 billion years to predict what will happen to the Earth.
The earth's climate is influenced more by Volcanoes, the Sun and bovine flatulence than mankind has in his entire existence. Yes, we should take care of our planet for future generations, no debate. But the current Global Warming doomsday propaganda is the biggest bunch of bullshit.
Why? The MMGW hoax says the more CO2 in the atmosphere warmer the temp. Humans are releasing too much CO2 into the atmosphere so each year there is more CO2 than the previous. Therefore, the year 1998 should have considerably lower CO2 concentration and therefore lower temp than the year 2008. This is not the case so the MMGW hoax is debunked once and for all. By your own admission the sun plays no role, nor does H2O. The MMGW global warming scam does not explain the current cooling trend. William Gray however did predict this cooling trend but we can't consider his work because he is too old, remember. No matter how accurate the guy's predictions are, the MMGW cultists will do whatever they can to destroy the man.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/june_global_temperatures_drop_to_1979_1998_average/ Here is a report from a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA saying the current cooling trend has been going on for 8 years. Yes, 8 years is much longer than 30 months. Hey, BigDave, when you are a snake oil saleman, facts tend to be a mother fucker don't they.
you know what is a sickening thought ... ( i mentioned this before) ... if the Senate passes the bil, The Idiot-Left will almost immediately start claiming that the cooling trend that is currently under way is a direct result of the bill .... and yes, they'll first have recognize that cooling is under way. Thats why its now or never for them to pass this massive tax, and destroy our economy. They must be able to take credit for the natural fluctuation in temperature, before it becomes completely obvious its cooling ... TOO LATE, JACKASSES!!! these god-damn shameless idiots ...
Well there's a variety of mistakes in your paragraph there: 1) 1998 was an el nino year, so no, you can't cherry pick that one (again, that's an insufficient sample.) 2) Just because temperatures oscillate does not mean the collary is true, that every time the temperature drops CO2 has to drop as well. 3) I've said that the sun does play a role, contrary to your unfair statement, just not as much as CO2. In fact, NASA has already stated that the sun's contribution is a much smaller impact than CO2. Because there is no cooling trend. Look at the temperature graph. Is he wrong about a cooling trend, too?
Absolutely. Let's take Roy Spencer, for example -- he previously used the incorrect "measurements" of the "troposphere" (in fact, calculated results from non-tropospheric measurements with high error rates) and ignored the contradictory evidence. When the satellite errors were located, did he update his blog? If so, if you could show me the blog entry I'd love to read it. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/08/et-tu-lt/
What difference will it make, if your prediction that the economy will be destroyed is correct. Because of the destroyed economy, the Republicans will then win and return to office triumphantly to bring us the strong economy that brought us here today.
So the senior scientist for climate studies at NASA is wrong and Bigdavediode is right. Can you please cite your credendials BigDave? The arrogance of the left-wing statist nutjobs is simply amazing.
Did you get the pm about BDD like I did? http://m.digg.com/politics/Presidential_hopeful_has_way_to_solve_gun_violence_more_guns?offset=15 bigdavediode supports consolidating more power in fewer hands, everyone has a right to an opinion even bigdavediode who wishes to eliminate such things as individual rights and opinions. bdd likes Top Down World, that is why he is against the greatest living Champion of Individual Rights/Freedom, Dr. Ron Paul. It is a struggle of ideologies, the bigdavediodes of the world that want complete power and control over your life vs. the people, who bigdavediode calls the "nut/kook/fringe", that have the crazy idea of wanting to control their own lives. The bigdavediodes fear for this notion to catch on, again, lest people realize/rediscover we never needed Top Down World in the first place, that it is a yolk of burden and root of problems rather than a source of solutions. I prefer to live free of the bigdavediodes of the world "helping" me. They want me to give them unlimited power/money for their "help". Their help does not help me and I certainly would not entrust bigdavediode or his kind with any more power than the authority with which they were born. That is what it boils down to, pick the world that suits your preference. bigdavediode eagerly awaits your grant of full control over you. +68 ganjadude4391 on 10/12/2007 More nasty shit about BDD: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...00&q=bigdavediode+site:Digg.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi= If it's indeed the same guy, it's then proof that he's a POS.