Statisticians Confirm: No Global Cooling Despite Skeptic Spin

[kgrandia]

In a massive blow to the climate skeptic movement, the Associated Press has conducted a blind test of statisticians that unequivocally confirms that no global cooling trend exists.

Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics, who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.

The Associated Press conducted the blind test by sending global temperature data from NOAA and NASA to four independent statisticians who were not told what the data represented, but simply asked to perform a common statistical analysis to look for trends in the data.

The statisticians “found no true temperature declines over time,” and in fact identified “a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers,” the AP reports.

More: http://www.desmogblog.com/statisticians-confirm-no-global-cooling-despite-skeptic-spin

[leanderj]

1. Shocking - UChicago economist calls global warming global cooling

Such RW bullcrap. What is he going to deny next?

[rgbecker]

2. Its easy to see why Obama decided to go into politics after working at the U. of Chicago.

The place is loaded with wingers....economic, scientific etc.

[happyslug]

3. Duplicate Topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4119651

Now, the above is a Yahoo site, while yours is a Desmogblog site, both are citing the same AP report.

[joshcryer]

4. I like that it was a blind study, showing that skeptics are indeed motivated by their biases.

Their skeptical claims are rooted in faulty analysis, *because* of their preconceived notions.