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> By the way, while there also hasn’t been any increase in mean global temperatures during lifetimes of most of today’s high school students What a bizarre cho
by deogeo 7y ago
> By the way, while there also hasn’t been any increase in mean global temperatures during lifetimes of most of today’s high school students
What a bizarre choice of time span to look at. The article was published in 2014, so I'm assuming he means the 2000-2014 period. Looking at the first chart on https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/... ...maybe? Yet there's a clear upwards trend.
How odd he would spend so many words on the topic, and not include such a simple, relevant graph.
Even more odd - he must have seen that graph, or one like it, to make his 'no increase during' claim. Yet he chose to present only the narrow section of the graph that conformed to his narrative.
The only possible conclusion is that he is deliberately misleading his audience. I hope he's at least getting paid.
- aidenn0 7y agoHaha, same comment, same time. I missed the 2014 date on the article. If you use 16 for highschooler, ignore the trendline, 1998 was warmer than 2014. That's a way to at least claim the facts meet your story, though at best ignorant of how trends work and at worst intentionally deceptive.