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A nice graph

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UPDATED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 14:28
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:15 PM

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

So I've been arguing about the validity of AGW on a right-wing blog that I troll, and using this excellent resource http://www.skepticalscience.com/ to answer them. It's wonderful, it feels like cheating. Anyway one of the righties asserted that global temperature is NOT in fact going up, pointing to the fact that temperature has actually gone down slightly if you measure from 1998 (a year when temperatures spiked due to a strong El Nino). So imagine my joy when I found this peach of a graph - 'How "skeptics" view global warming' compared to 'How realists view global warming':

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:17 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

That's sure an "owwie"...but of course the righties here will come back with something nonsensical (or offensive) to refute it. Pretty sad that the whole rest of the world has come to accept global warming as a fact and is TAKING STEPS to try and deal with it, and there sits America, "greatest nation on earth", still trying to decide whether they believe it or not!

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:21 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Anyone know how to shrink the graph? :-/

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:26 PM

WHOZIT

I have no idea how to read that thing.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:29 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

It's just mean global temperatures year on year, with several blue lines drawn to show the planet 'cooling'; and a single red line to show the planet heating up.

It shows how you can lie with statistics, and the need to look at the big picture.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:32 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Just-a for you, KPO dahling:

Yeah, the blue line shows how skeptics "prove" it's cooling, and the red line to show how "realists" recognize that over a long period of time, it's heating up.

Yes, Whatzit, we know you're dumb, but you don't need to advertise it.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:41 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Ah thanks Niki. How'd you do that?

I don't know that Whozit deserved that! Fair play to him for showing an interest I say.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:45 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Sorry--I never take Whatzit seriously, it's just not possible, given the idiocy he posts.

As to how I did it, right-clicked and selected "save picture as" saved it to my computer, went into Animation Shop, pulled it up, resized it, saved it, went to Photoshop and uploaded it, and copied and pasted the URL. There are easier ways, I know, I'm just so used to this that it's fastest for me. Someone mentioned an on-line resizing site or something once, but I never bothered. You're welcome.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:59 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Well thanks again

A couple of years ago I would've agreed with you about Whozit, but I think he's somewhat better now. 2 years is a long time when you're a teenager I guess.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:06 PM

WHOZIT

I'm eatting solid food now.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:31 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

How Rappy views AGW:

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:28 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
I'm eatting solid food now.

Good on you buddy!

It's not personal. It's just war.

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