... "(N)o local record measures global sea level," (Rutgers University earth and planetary sciences professor Bob) Kopp said in a Rutgers press release. "The statistical challenge is to pull out the global signal. That's what our statistical approach allows us to do." ...I will not bother asking Professor Kopp where he is pulling that "global signal" out of. The answer is self-evident.
Indeed - liars use statistics and statistics lie as the saying goes.