Could it be more obvious?

[Mormon Red Death]

Au contraire. I understood his point. I was addressing the facts that he was referring to and his explanation of same. IOW, if the media had reported the good news and then Offered his explanation without mentioning the recession it would be evidence of poor research and analysis. The recession is THE market force at work here.

In other writings of his on this subject he has pointed out that over the last 20 years the environment has gotten better. Your explanation as well is astute.

[UtahDan]

The solid take forgot to mention the recession. Nothing helps CO2 to drop like unemployment.

Calls to mind the correlation between the increase in abortion and the drop in the crime rate 15 or so years later.

[lambdacoug]

Get yourself some fundamental education by learning about regression, time series analysis, credibility theory and experimental design. Afterwards, go back to all of this information and decide for yourself how taking a very narrow sliver of data relative to the history of the earth, especially given the historical heteroskedasticity found in global climate data, and by using very few predictor variables develop a robust climate model that can accurately isolate the mankind's influences on it.

You assume I haven't changed my position at all or read anything on the subject since then and am still claiming what I started out claiming at the beginning of the thread.

[Indy Coug]

You assume I haven't changed my position at all or read anything on the subject since then and am still claiming what I started out claiming at the beginning of the thread.

The thing is, I don't really read your posts anymore, but I like replying to them anyway because the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel success rate of getting your panties in a bunch is too tempting for me to pass up.

[lambdacoug]

The thing is, I don't really read your posts anymore, but I like replying to them anyway because the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel success rate of getting your panties in a bunch is too tempting for me to pass up.

You enjoy being a dick. Got it.

[Indy Coug]

You enjoy being a dick. Got it.

[lambdacoug]

So long as you are having fun at my expense, that's what's important.

[Sleeping in EQ]

This video is pretty funny:

http://www.upworthy.com/the-quintessentially-british-response-to-everyone-who-denies-global-warming-beca?g=2&c=upw1

[Indy Coug]

I did some extensive Googling yesterday and found a messageboard thread from 1934 where some Chicken Little was saying the same thing. The economy was in shambles, the world was being threatened by tyrannical leaders, the midwest was in the middle of a severe drought and people saw everything in black or white. My, how times change.

[BigPiney]

This video is pretty funny:

http://www.upworthy.com/the-quintess...eca?g=2&c=upw1

That was funny, but that site is obnoxious.