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Re: Data Plot of the Day

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On 11/24/2015 2:59 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Data Plot of the Day
>>
>>
>>> http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/news/tease/2013/11/21/Keeling_Curve.jpg
>>
>>> Graphs don't often seize the public's attention. But the Keeling
>>> Curve is one that did.
>
> No, it didn't.
>
>>> It's hard to imagine today's discussions about climate change without
>>> the iconic chart. For more than half a century, scientists at the
>>> Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla have used it to plot
>>> the rise of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. But with funding
>>> increasingly hard to come by, the project's future is uncertain.
>
> Now we get to the heart of the matter; be afraid and give us money.
>
>>> Scripps researcher Charles David Keeling launched the Keeling Curve
>>> in 1958 and kept it alive by applying for grant renewals every few
>>> years. Today, his son Ralph Keeling has expanded the project to
>>> include oxygen measurements and other data points.
>
> The boy obviously knew a cash cow when he saw one.
>
>>> But the younger Keeling still writes the same grant proposals and
>>> collects the same atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna
>>> Loa in Hawaii. He says the data collected there offered some of the
>>> first evidence that human activity was contributing to global
>>> warming: "It started the research agenda back in the 1960s by showing
>>> that something big was really happening."
>
> I am important, send me money.

... since I have learned how to cherry-pick data to give scary results.

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dvus

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Data Plot of the Day Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 09:59 -0600
  Re: Data Plot of the Day jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-24 19:59 +0000
    Re: Data Plot of the Day dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-24 21:47 -0500

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