Fire & Ice

Movin' in for the kill tonight

You've got every advantage when they put out the lights

It's not so pretty when it fades away

Cause it's just an illusion in this passion play

I've seen you burn 'em before

--Pat Benatar

As if on cue from the previous post, ran across this market-oriented missive on the global warming data dance.

Take a look at the two temperature graphs included in the piece. Even if we focused on the second 'published' graph (which conveniently omitted 30-40 yrs of temperature data at time of publication in 2001) and that temps representing 1400-1900 were estimated in a valid manner, anyone with knowledge of process variation and cycles should observe nothing alarming in this series. At most, it appears we have a series approaching the upper end of a cycle. No special causes (man-made or otherwise) are evident.

As suggested by this article, socialistic motives behind folks who side w/ the global warming argument are certainly plausible and cannot be readily dismissed.