[RonnG]

Ah! The ability of statisticians to mislead with graphs.
The arbitrary use of” parts per million” on the Y axis t makes a virtual flatline slope appear very steep.

What the chart tells me is that over the past 140 years Co2 has risen 80 parts per MILLION (a factor of 0.00008)or about, on average, one part per 1.75 MILLION each year( factor of 0.0000057)

[dennisw]

Ah! The ability of statisticians to mislead with graphs.
The arbitrary use of” parts per million” on the Y axis t makes a virtual flatline slope appear very steep.

That's an easy one to spot
But I bet lots of Obama voters swallow that deceptive graph

Women are also fooled more than men by such a graph and they vote

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Ah! The ability of statisticians to mislead with graphs. The arbitrary use of” parts per million” on the Y axis t makes a virtual flatline slope appear very steep.

What the chart tells me is that over the past 140 years Co2 has risen 80 parts per MILLION (a factor of 0.00008)or about, on average, one part per 1.75 MILLION each year( factor of 0.0000057)

I never could understand the hoopla over the minuscule CO2 increase. It's statistically insignificant. Or as we say in my field of 'worst case analysis'. Lost in the noise