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mutatron7 karma
Climate deniers claim the 97% data was doctored, or "Cooked" as they say, and there are blog posts which claim to dissect and debunk it. What was the methodology of determining the 97% agreement?
edit: I see there are a lot of other similar questions. If you pass on this one, I'll read the others. Mainly I want to know how to debunk the "debunking" of the debunking in one or two sentences.
mutatron2 karma
It hasn't been getting cooler, and it hasn't gone back down to the climate of the 1970s or 1980s either. Atmospheric heating has slowed down, but the hottest years on record are still almost all in the 21st century.
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voted for Clinton by over 5%
What does this mean? Fewer than 95% voted for Trump? What district is it and where in California is it?
mutatron21 karma
Check out this temperature anomaly map. When Siberia, Alaska, and parts of Antarctica are all warmer than usual, it's going to be difficult to blame that on sensor placement.
There are other ways to tell also, like the decreasing altitude of the tree line, or the northward movement of certain kinds of vegetation. These things happen because of warming.
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