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		tsotha on Jan 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic Abo... Hah! I also used to do crap fits to curves like that when my data didn't work. You can only fit a line to the graph like that if you assume temperatures are going to rise quickly in the future. This is a joke, right?

jonhendry on Jan 29, 2012 [–]

Not as much of a joke as pinning your whole argument on an outlier.

tsotha on Jan 29, 2012 | [–]

That's the point though. There's no way to know if it's an outlier or not. The AGW people are assuming it's an outlier.

I guess we'll know in ten years. My money's on serious revisions to the model.

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