Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/26/2009 12:55:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?
In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Hey birdbrains, go outside!
1) stupid liars
2) damn liars
3) statisticians
We had such a foolish example of such in college where a statistician on be half of my sociology class proved that Fundamentalist Christians where not highly intelligent from bogus survey of college attendees from Ivy league schools. I challenged the result of the professor and made him amend that conclusions to read that Fundamentalist Christians smart enough to avoid Ivy League schools. The class cheered because we weren't an Ivy School.
More ignorant propaganda from AP. The Earth has been cooling since 1998. There was no “super hot 2005”. It is a lie.
2005 wasn’t that one of the times Hansen got caught “cooking the books” using September’s temperatures for October.
Even the head of the UN IPCC has acknowledged the world has been cooling.
What data was given to these folks? The true data belie the notion of the last decade being the warmest on record. To the contrary it shows lower temps all around. More junk science by those with an agenda
Yes it's true and where any data wasn't available they got the computers to fill in the missing data and then handed it to the statisticians.
There has been so much cherry-picking of the data that it better be made public and subject to testing otherwise it should be ignored. There has been enough fiddling of the data ( Vide: Yamal tree ring data) that no set of experts can be trusted without complete independent verification of the data.
Idiots. Or rather: they think we are.
You know how to get a "hockey stick" graph line showing an "undeniable trend"? Extract over 265 data samples and use the 3 of them that best tend to prove your hypothesis. That is the precise genesis of "Global Warming". Sane people and real scientists call that a "scam".
They are using the fraudulent NOAA Jim Hansen data only, so of course they found no cooling trend as the numbers (like the super hot 2005) are BS
If they were to use the RSS, UAH or even the Hadley they would have come up with the real answer.
More realistic numbers from the Hadley 
Using real numbers, you don't need PHD statisticians to find the cooling trend, because any 6 year old can spot it
That was quite a funny line coming from the article. AGW is all about cherry picking the data.
When the next ice age comes, billions will die of starvation within the first year.
There’s no significant evidence whatsoever for global warming caused by human activity. Obama just can’t back off of a position when he’s wrong, and I would bet that his staffers are giving him all kinds of incomplete, incorrect, and biased analysis about global warming theory.
The White House has a big problem with all the extreme, poorly researched positions that Obama took back during his election campaign to appeal to “progrssives” and the moonbat base of the democrat party. He got way out on a limb on climate change, health care, and withdrawal from Iraq, and now he’s finding it difficult to climb back in off that limb and take less extreme positions. That’s what happens when politicians are just concerned about getting elected and have no interest in finding the truth.
Not to mention all the people unable to outrun the advancing ice!
Oh my god! It's global climate...stasis! That'll make movies like 'The Day After Tomorrow' awful dull. Damn! No one is going to make any money off of global stasis.
LOL...the links to the data are right at the bottom of the story and show that it's not cherry-picked!
Oh, yeah, that 1998 is not a statistically anomaly...nope... </sarc>
Global Milding causes Global Mildew, which is what will kill us all if we don’t act now and embrace Change.
No, as it's hotter now than it was 10 years ago, despite the supposed "cooling trend." The "cooling trend" is really just a reduction in the warming trend, not actually getting cooler.
Forget the cooling debate: the AP's hired staticians have just determined there is no global warming either. Do they realize that?
LMAO, best one of the day (so far)!
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