tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post112841715831552790..comments2023-10-25T04:54:37.147-07:00Comments on Just Right: UN IPCC challenged to retract AGW hooeyJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884491329536733335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-62954493376069942272008-04-21T17:52:00.000-07:002008-04-21T17:52:00.000-07:00Don't be fooled by Charts , I worker for 2 years d...Don't be fooled by Charts , I worker for 2 years doing Charts on about 60 Stock price for Companies listed on the TSE and I did them by hand and had to learn how to set-up a graph for the Dollar value and handle Stock-splits along with Dividend pay-outs that discounted a Stock after the Record-Date .<BR/><BR/> What Al Gore did in his movie was to take a selected "Window" of time or Number movements that could have been plotted on a exagerated graph that didn't use a Logrithmic progression to refect the % change .<BR/><BR/> The easiest way to expalin this is to grab a piece on normal Grid-paper and mark off 20 squares vertically and 12 squares Horizontally from a single point like a x,y, intersect graph.<BR/> Now imagine each of the 20 lines being a .05 cent increase in a stock that was Posted at $3.00 for the base-number , and the 12 lines are for each month of the year .<BR/> Each 5 cent move upwards over the 12 months will show as a dot for the day it was recorded that month , if the stock goes from $3.00 to $4.00 in one year the chart will have 20 five cent increases in a ordered fashion like stairs .<BR/> This chart may be good for a price increase snapshot but it doesn't reflect the Rate Of Return for investing , Gore's charts are actually Good-News because as the temperature goes up the Percentage of change goes down merely by the greater mean-temperature number it is divided into .<BR/> <BR/> Basically , would you rather take 50% of $800.00 or 2% of $300'000.00 dollars based solely on one single measurement with no other calculations.<BR/> And this is how Gore skews his Charts to scare people , plus if he needs to use Picture and talk really slow to get his followers to accept his claims, they must be pretty stupid or usefull-idiots easy to dupe by animations and a Polar bear on a piece of ice looking for prey in the water.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com