Tobis’ Rule
June 2, 2018
MT has come up with an interesting observation, which Eli has dubbed Tobis' Rule
carefully selected from the NOAA tides and currents data base.
Who amongst us Eli asks has not observed that the global temperature anomaly is rising
Well there are a lot of Okies out there
This being the Stanley Cup final weeks, the classic hockey stick based on a large number of proxys
and if you get a cast of a thousand or so paleoclimate people out pops Pages 2K but what does Eli see without end on blogs, twitter and so forth, why a sketch from HH Lamb that appeared in the first IPCC report based on the Central England Temperature series
Humble readers, in Eli's humble opinion Tobis' Rule ranks right up there with the Gish Gallop. Make it so. Make it so
If a large data set speaks convincingly against you find a smaller and noisier one that you can huffily cite.There are any number of wonderful examples of Tobis' Rule. All the bunnies have observed that the mean global sea level rise since 1880 has accelerated in the last twenty years. The record is built on tide gauges and in recent decades on satellite observations. Tamino has been all over this one time and again
So Eli asks, what is the smaller and noisier one that our friends at denial central point to? Hold the Bunny's beer:
Who amongst us Eli asks has not observed that the global temperature anomaly is rising
Of course, there are a lot more where that came from
A bunny could make a hobby out of tracing down all the "enhanced" variations of this sketch which had it's origin in the 1960s, but that, of course is another story
Humble readers, in Eli's humble opinion Tobis' Rule ranks right up there with the Gish Gallop. Make it so. Make it so