Amid the silly cartoons and even sillier "real-life examples," my statistics textbook had a very interesting snippet in it the other day:
“It has been accepted that global warming is a serious ecological problem. But Yale University researchers examined satellite and weather-balloon data collected since 1979by NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). They discovered that satellites had drifted in orbit, throwing off the timing of temperature measurements. Nights looks as warm as days. Corrective action has shown that the pace of global warming over the past 30 years has actually been quite slow, a total increase of about 1 degree Fahrenheit.”
Ok...so global warming is...fake? Is that what this is telling me? The point of including this in the book was to teach you about bias, and to always be careful where your data comes from, but seriously. Refute a completely established notion that what we're doing to the planet is detrimental? To say the least, I was extremely surprised.
The funny thing in, the book isn't even very old. In fact, they're brand new! Copyrighted 2006, even. I mean, their data seems to be from respectable sources and such, but really, how can anyone be expected to believe that global warming is a flat out scam?
Al Gore might be writing some angry letters to the people who wrote my stat book...
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lol i jsut wrote a blog about the destruction of the environment. i agree with your post and am really confused as to why people don't believe in global warming