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Old 04-02-2013, 10:26 AM   #640 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
The problem with your realists view is that it picks endpoints and can be used to make any slope they want.

The way I look at it is a curvy averaged fit, it gives a better view of what is actually going on.

Edit to add: I notice its NASA data based on the 2005 peak, which is the data set that shows the greatest warming of all of the groups. Also if you go before the 1970's and do a straight line fit to say the 1930's it would be much flatter. I would lay odds that if you went back to the 1880's that it would be pretty flat though still rising.

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