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"Clever" use of misleading scale and baldfaced assertion, there. Many people believe the trick of dilating an axis to make perceived changes smaller is on some
by scarmig 14y ago
"Clever" use of misleading scale and baldfaced assertion, there. Many people believe the trick of dilating an axis to make perceived changes smaller is on some level dishonest.
I'm sure your argument is that: well, on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years, you can see temperatures vary on that scale! Sure. But we are talking about anthropogenic climate change. Even the worst case scenario--which everyone agrees would be bad and people spend a whole lot of effort arguing it can't happen because of that--would barely show up on the graphs you linked.
So they're of little value, and I recommend you take them down because of how they might be construed to mislead.
- ctdonath 14y agoBut we are talking about anthropogenic climate change. Indeed we are. I put those graphs up precisely to show that the anthropogenic changes are mere noise in the natural order of climate change, regardless of scale. I contend that the dismissal of such historical context is intended to mislead.