Another delightfully misleading headline from the BBC. I can see another way of interpreting the chart that they helpfully provide:
How about "Arctic Ice coverage on the increase"?
Look chaps, history repeats itself:
House prices go up; a bubble forms; the bubble bursts; prices stabilise at a low affordable level; and then they start going up again...
Empires come and go. AFAIAC, the Irish rejection of the CON-stitution is more-or-less the high water mark of the EUmpire.
Global temperatures have stayed more or less the same for ages. Pointing out that temperatures are now higher than in the Little Ice Age is about as unhelpful as pointing out that temperatures are lower than they were in the Mediæval Warm Period. I'm guessing that the most recent high was about five years ago (note that the Wiki charts end at 2004!) and we're now on a cooling trend again.
See also: A chilling tale from North
A grim document
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You'll notice the not so clever deception tactics used as well: The simple fact that the y-axis is truncated gives the impression that the difference is much greater than it really is.
Taking the beginning of March figures and comparing what I estimate to be 14.7 million sq km in 2007 versus the 15.1 million in 2008 we are seeing something like a 2.7% increase, year on year. Even the variance between the March average and March this year is only about 5.3%.
I'd have to look at the raw data to confirm this, but I suspect that +/-5.3% falls within one standard deviation of the mean.
We're doomed!
But seriously, the remittance man is right. It's odd that the March 2008 figures are higher than those of 2007 if the Arctic sea ice is melting at a faster rate.
If you are trying to get your message across, you will choose the data sets that best support your argument.
Average 1979 - 2000!?! Are they trying to blame the Tories for this!?!
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