JoeDoakes from Como Park notes the same thing I did yesterday:
Global warming alarmists lie with statistics to panic the public, hoping they’ll react in fear instead of reason.
This article from Powerline explains how to make a chart look scary by changing the scale.
I think gun controllers do it, too. I’ll look for examples.
Joe Doakes
You can pretty much name the issue: “war on women”; “Obamacare will lower the deficit”; Obama has added less to the debt than any president since the War; more gun laws equal less crime; the science is settled.
The Big Lie is a key part of the Democrat Party’s approach; to make up an alternate reality for their low-information base, without fear of being “fact-checked” by a media that is their PR agency Praetorian Guard.
I will pretty much consider this my moment of zen for today.
Here is the problem with Anthropogenic Global Warming theory:
The case for AGW to be proven is complex. You must show the globe is warming and that this trend is long term (centuries into the future, at least), and that it is the only significant factor that can change global temperature. You also have to prove that its effects are dire, and that it is possible to halt the warming or mitigate it somehow.
The data you have to work with is noisy, inconsistent in its origins, and has possibly been corrupted.
Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said you couldn’t reason a man out of a belief he did not reason himself into?
And I think he also said “It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’s been fooled.”