Life Imitates Satire: New Gallup Stats Show Real AGW Skepticism Hockey Stick
A couple weeks ago I posted a satirical essay called “New Global Warming Data Reveals Accurate ‘Hockey Stick’ Graph,” featuring a chart in the shape of the infamous “hockey stick” — measuring not global warming itself but rather skepticism over global warming.
It was all in good fun, and quickly spread around the Internet far and wide. Needless to say, the “data” underlying the parody was all made up off the top of my head as pure satire, as is plainly obvious from the graph itself.
Little did I know at the time, however, that the Gallup polling organization really has been tracking skepticism about global warming, ever since 1998, with legitimate public opinion surveys. And just yesterday they released the results of their latest poll, which (unsurprisingly) reveals a drastic recent uptick in doubts about global warming among the American public.
Gallup released this chart to accompany their poll results, showing the trend in AGW doubts from 1998 to the present:
I was startled by the resemblance between my entirely made-up chart and this real chart which essentially tracks the exact same trend.
A closer look revealed that a bit of the ol’ hockey-stick-trickery (hockey-stickery?) was used on Gallup’s “AGW is exaggerated” chart itself: the percentage range of opinion is “flattened” somewhat, to make the dramatic upsurge in AGW skepticism seem not as large as it could be shown. This graphing technique is the exact opposite of the Al-Gore-ian graphs, which are designed to visually emphasize the dimensions of global warming as starkly as possible.
Nice shot! Looks like you’ve slapped the puck right into the net. Team Gore will slam you into the boards and try to have you penalized for high-sticking.
And what happened in 2004?
Nice shot! Looks like you’ve slapped the puck right into the net. Team Gore will slam you into the boards and try to have you penalized for high-sticking. absulately nice………………
The slap shot was developed by Boom Boom Geofferion of Canandiens in the 50s and was designed to get the attention of too settled defensepersons by partial decapitation.
Ah, if only doubts could stop AGW.
You should be working for the IPCC (you’d make a lot more money)!
Interesting how it starts that dramatic upswing in 2006 when Al Bore’s little hackumentary was released.
Dude! You deserve millions in tax money, wild guessing satire looks like it really has something going for it. Uncanny how close your “modeling” is to the real thing, guess that clears the whole matter of global farting, your science is settled. Maybe you can run your magic satire science over things like unemployment, healthscam, and how many jobs have been “saved” in the United States of Obama by the stinkulas bills??
Instead of doubts, joey, we’ll use the most recent research:
Here’s a link to CO2 Science, with over 11,000 peer-reviewed papers regardig climate change, updated weekly: http://www.co2science.org/index.php
For example, joey, there are over 200 peer-reviewed papers just under a search for ‘MWP.’ That the Midieval Warm Period, in case you were wondering. Seems it was global and Much warmer than today.
Enjoy reading Real research! ‘Cause it sure beats AGW.
10. Otter: “Instead of doubts, joey, we’ll use the most recent research….”
Ah, if only “research” could stop AGW.
Ah, if only there was some AGW to stop.
Concerning the Hockey Stick Hoax:
Cambridge science/genetics writer Matt Ridley has just done an excellent and very positive review of Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, a dissection of the bogus science perpetrated in that original infamous Hockey Stick graph. It is here here, and is very well worth reading.
This heartens me when main stream science writers are now confident enough to step up to the plate and publicly announce they see the fraud. Ridley’s not fringe, he’s very mainstream and popular (Genome), so this is a great development. An excellent review that needs wide dissemination.
joseph: “ah, if only “research” could stop AGW”
ah, if only reason could stop AGW alarmism
Joseph,
the root of all of this is whether your religion is Mother Earth or Father Sky. Everything else — even the “science” — is embellishment.
Ahhh, if only joey had the Intelligence to see the PROOF that AGW is a scam, which is what the research is showing.
JackAsses like him are frustratingly stupid.
Ah,,, doing real science can be such a downer. It’s so much more fun, and usually more profitable, to just make stuff up.
Politicians thrive on a good crisis. It isn’t enough that Mother Nature will occasionally provide us with a good 6.6 magnitude earthquake, or a decent level 5 hurricane to get our juices flowing. Things like Katrina only happen once every 10 years or so, a good politician needs to be seen saving the world on a daily basis.
Ways to know when a Politician is telling a lie:
1. his lips are moving.
2. his lips are moving and his arms are waving.
3. he starts his speech with the phrase; “I am not a crook.”
4. he begins to give alternate definitions for commonly used words, like; “Is”.
5. he throws his grandmother under the bus for being a “typical white person”.
The truth of the matter is that all politicians lie, some are just better at it than others. Making stuff up that’s believable is the key. Hocky stickery is but one example.
Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?
For years now, there has been lots of solid evidence that debunks the nonsense spouted by NASA’s Hansen, who’s been feeding Gore bogus facts. Those who disputed the junk were not just skeptics, but true scientists who saw through the hoax because the science was bad. Real skeptics always check all claims; they are objective and rational about evalutating evidence. It’s good to be a skeptic, and skeptics are not “deniers.”
And: has Montford’s book (see commment 14) found a US publisher yet? I believe it has not, and I wonder why that is.