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The "highlights" section is very fishy to include in a scientific report. It's very easy to misinterpret trends when you cherry-pick extrema out of data affect
by khawkins 7y ago
The "highlights" section is very fishy to include in a scientific report. It's very easy to misinterpret trends when you cherry-pick extrema out of data affected by cyclical trends and stochastic processes with relatively high variance. Further, saying that some place is reporting a 100-year high record temperature sounds bad, but saying that the temperature was briefly about as high as it was in the 1910s sounds like nothing to worry about.
Tony Heller has provided quite a bit of insightful context to climate reporting which likes to highlight extremes and gloss over important contextual data.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1/videos?view=0&sort=...
- hwillis 7y agoYeah, Tony Heller- the guy who believes methane isn't a greenhouse gas and cherry picks for cherry picking. What a quack