bramflakes comments on Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bramflakes 26 June 2014 10:21:28AM 5 points [-]

What's your reaction to the data that shows a lack of warming over the past 17-years?

Nothing, because you can make any trend in a noisy dataset vanish by looking at a carefully-chosen small slice. El NiƱo peaked in 1998, the subsequent temperatures look flatter in comparison. Yawn.

Zoom out, the trend is clear.