Wow

Posted by David Roberts at 10:24 AM on 27 Feb 2008

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Aside from being substantively misleading, this is just really, really awful. Doesn't CEI have enough money to hire a video editor?

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Wow, indeed.

Did someone actually get paid to make that? Embarrassing.

by kmp at 10:31 AM on 27 Feb 2008

new CEI "Where's the Warming?" video

Yes, our new video may not win any Oscars, David, but just what do you find "substantively misleading"? CO2 has certainly been rising steadily, but the Hadley data for global surface temps shows a plateau since 2002--which is just what the video says. http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/n ...

Are we cherrypicking data? If you go back to 2000, you get a net increase in temperature through 2007, but if you go back to 1998 you get a decrease. Neither of those changes the fact that global temperature has been basically flat (or perhaps even dropping) for the last six years.

Surely you're not accusing us of doctoring Al Gore's claim, in the clip that we show from his movie, that higher CO2 means higher temperature?

by SKazman at 7:34 AM on 29 Feb 2008

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