I was trained as a statistician (MS Virginia Tech) and practiced the profession with two companies for over 30 years.

I can only eyeball the data and don’t claim to be a statistician of the caliber of Deming or Youden, but I tend to see correlations with both Co2 and sunspots. As everyone should know, correlation does not mean cause and effect. Only scientific theory can explain that.

I personally believe that the earth’s average temperature has risen over the last decade, but I am not as certain as some politicians that man has caused it.

Has any reputable statistician actual analyzed the data for correlation coefficients and tested for their significance. If I had the actual data( in numerical form), I would like to see.

REAL REPORTS http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/584180.aspx

The move to change legislative language from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change” confirms Congress’s acknowledgement that the planet is now cooling and that the decline in solar activity is responsible for the “Global Cooling” we are now feeling.

Dubious? Google “IPCC Global Warming Potential (GWP)” to find the real story on CO2 as an atmospheric trace gas contributing to warming. Oh, by the way, what Prof. Mann’s infamous hockey stick diagram Bristlecone proxy data shows conclusively is that nothing has done more to “GREEN” the planet over the past few decades than moderate sun-driven warming together with elevated levels of CO2, regardless of the source. Increase atmospheric CO2, increase crop and forest production. That’s the bottom line. It’s no accident that commercial greenhouse operators invest heavily in CO2 generators to boost the productivity of their fixed growing facilities.

Let’s review the arguments.

Argument: Warming is bad.
Fact: History shows warming is good. Rome rose to power during the Roman Warm Period. The Medieval Warm Period enabled the Renaissance. The Modern Warm Period gave rise to the US super power.

Argument: CO2 causes warming.
Fact: IPCC technical reports give CO2 a GWP of unity (1); lower than most trace gases by several orders of magnitude, particularly water vapor.

Argument: People release CO2; therefore people are responsible for Global Warming.
Fact: A review of the carbon cycle shows very clearly humans are responsible for only 3 percent of the CO2 entering our biosphere. How high would fuel Cap&Trade Taxes have to go for you to reduce your carbon fuels usage by 1/3? 2/3? Think about it. The result is in the noise, that is 1 or 2 percent reduction in CO2 production IF everyone on the planet complies.

Simple Fact: World oil production has been on a plateau for 4 years. That production has now rolled off into permanent decline. Why put a crushing tax on it now? …and why avoid the subject leading up to the vote on this toxic legislation?

Global Cooling.

After reading all of the above debating on the two subjects, how about a little global shutting the fuck up?

CO2 LAGS temperature by 800 years. But then an idiot like you would not understand.

BTW: Saw your picture. You are a hipster duFace who is only cool in his own mind. The rest of us laugh at you behind your back.

I thought about doing software when I was deciding what to do but then decided to become and electrical engineer and do something that was really difficult and leave software for people who could not do anything else.

We could be in for a long cold multi-year period. Time to move from winnipeg.