Context – all data needs context – even with Climate Data

Haven’t had a lot of time to do posting either last night for today, or for today – sorry! But this series of "data context" over at The Foresight Institute I think is important – it shows that when data is presented, the context is important.  In this case, it is estimated temperature data – just in time for Hopenhagen.

All we’ve been hearing about is "the hockey stick" – the rise in temperatures due to "man made warming".   Anyone that has read the ‘Grok for a while knows that I’d allow that we have warmed, but not due to us.  And the operative question that seldom is asked – warm in relationship to what and when?  For instance, looking at the short term may make it look like we’re about to be toast:

 Certainly, it looks like that, right? Now, stretch out that timeline (e.g., "more context, Scotty!"):

Now that rise that the climate alarmists have their panties in a wad doesn’t look so bad, does it?  In fact, that "mountain" (at least in this graph) is something that they would rather have the rest of us forget – the Medieval Warm period (which their models don’t handle all that well).

 It tends to put things into perspective, eh?  But "Wait!  There’s more!" but head on over to the The Foresight Institute to see the "better graphs – you will not fear the warming – but you will the cooling.

Wish everyone at Copenhagen could see these – context, folks, context.