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My post is neither an attempt to argue for or against the assertion that global warming is a real phenomenon or if so, whether it is manmade.<br> But, I would like to argue that selectively chosen weather anecdotes do not constitute an argument either for or against global warming. Almost every week on this site, Boortz (or his minions) attempts to debunk "global warming" by citing an instance where a subtropical location had a rare snowfall, or a cold wave broke out somewhere, or snow fell at an unusual time of year. Just as one heat wave or one hurricane does not prove "global warming", neither do a few incidents of cold or snowy weather. On any given day on earth, I can find some city somewhere on this planet that had a record high temperature or a record low temperature for the date. Proper analysis of data to support or refute "global warming" requires a statistical analysis on data collected across multiple decades from all over the world. Those who refute global warming do themselves discredit and hurt their cause when they cite last week's cold wave as "evidence" just as those who "believe" in global warming are off-track when they claim that last year's active hurricane season was attributable to global warming. Analogously, the one high school dropout who became a multimillionare does not by itself argue that it is unwise to obtain a college education. Let's just have some honesty in the "debate".
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