FUN WITH NUMBERS
One theme of this site over the last month or so has been the misleading use of numbers. This is very much related to the ongoing discussion of whether warming has stopped or not. One side, the Anti-AGW, says it has stopped and therefore global warming is not happening and never will, conveniently forgetting that a lot of it has already occurred. The other side, the Pro-AGW, says warming still happening and introduces new metrics to demonstrate this. In an age when every ‘scandal’ unearthed by budding ‘Woodward and Bernsteins’ is given a ‘gate’ suffix it is easy to forget that President Nixon was impeached not for the original crime of breaking into offices of the Democratic Party but for the cover up. I wonder if something similar is happening with the Climate Science Community at the moment. I have, in earlier blogs, identified examples of presentations and sites trying to prove that the models’ predictions were accurate which have left off data from the recent years (though ...