Several of them are as convincing to me as the "hiatus" in the actual temperature data.
So are you convinced that the "hiatus" is just an artifact of noise in the data?
therefore we should judge whether or not global warming has slowed or stopped by eyeballing the graph
Eh? Where is this lovely piece coming from?
So are you convinced [...]
Nope. I'm merely convinced that the existence of the hiatus in the measured temperatures isn't very strong evidence of anything beyond itself. Very similar effects can be produced by noise; therefore seeing such an effect isn't good evidence of anything more than noise. Of course it might have some more interesting cause, but if want to see better evidence to be convinced that it does.
Eh?
The trouble with merely pointing at things and saying "Behold!" rather than making an actual argument is that teen your readers ...
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