Statisticians reject global cooling

[Bamaro]

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WASHINGTON – Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.
"The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record," said NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt. "Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming."
AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling - Yahoo! News
Oh well, back to reality.
Bad news for both sides of the 'debate'.

[ValuJet]

I think the climate change threads are beginning to run a close second to abortions and evolution.

[Bamaro]

Well, I bet I have heard it 50 times on talk radio and talking heads TV that we are now cooling so I think this thread is topical.

[Bodhisattva]

Have the opinions of the four statisticians been peer reviewed.

[Bodhisattva]

FWIW, I saw a program on the weather channel, which has been pushing global warming, that said we've actually been in a cooling trend.

[Bamabuzzard]

I reject paying for other people's stupid decisions but...