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Notice how this article, which presents actual data, as opposed to the NYT's summary of a press release, immediately got removed from HN's front page when it go
by jayess 12y ago
Notice how this article, which presents actual data, as opposed to the NYT's summary of a press release, immediately got removed from HN's front page when it got enough votes to appear there.
- CurtHagenlocher 12y agoIf you look closely at the source for the charts, most don't actually show what the author purports them to show. For instance, the first chart actually references a tropical average rather than a global average -- and it's well-known that warming seems greater closer to the poles than close to the equator. That said, the title is arguably correct. Because there's no good agreed-upon definition on what it means to be the "hottest year on record", such a claim is not especially scientific.
- jayess 12y agoSo I pulled the global RSS satellite temperature data from the RSS site and did a quick excel chart. I don't see a difference: https://imgur.com/opgZeoQ https://imgur.com/opgZeoQ So which "don't actually show what the author purports them to show."
- thaumaturgy 12y agoI'm sure it's a conspiracy from Big Climate.