If you are a government or academic climate scientist, you can (and will) use a variant of this trend line for graphing any and all climate phenomena.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- Vandalism At The Reflecting Pool
- Fifty Years Ago Today
- Truth Or Consequences
- US Climate Trend Maps
- Declining Spring Snow Cover In Northern New Mexico
- You Can’t Fool Mother Nature
- Cattle And The Climate
- One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
- New Video : Analyzing Oil And Gas
- Is Antarctica Melting?
- High Speed Analysis And Visualization
- El Nino To The Rescue?
- Fake News Update
- Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice
- 65 Years Of Progress!
- El Nino To The Rescue?
- Worst March Drought On Record
- ChartGL Process Control Demo
- The Biggest Money Laundering Scam
- Drought In The Headwaters Of Lake Powell
- Unrealistic Expectations Of Water Availability
- Did Bill Gates Do This?
- Worst March Drought On Record In The US
- The Real Hockey Stick Graph
- Analyzing The Western Water Crisis
Recent Comments
- GW on Vandalism At The Reflecting Pool
- GW on Vandalism At The Reflecting Pool
- Bob G on Vandalism At The Reflecting Pool
- Bob G on Fifty Years Ago Today
- Robertvd on Fifty Years Ago Today
- Chuck on Truth Or Consequences
- Gerald Machnee on Fifty Years Ago Today
- conrad ziefle on Fifty Years Ago Today
- Bob G on Truth Or Consequences
- Weylan McAnally on One Atomic Bomb Per Hour
Looks like you cherry picked your end points – the actual trend over the last 1.5 cycles is up.
Or maybe 1.25 cycles.
Their trend lines have direct correlation to funding levels.
Surely, that’s the Arctic ice trend line; the grant income trend line and the temperature trend line go the other way.
They usually use the 270° to 90° (4π/3 to π/2) trend with sine functions but a good hockey stick really needs to curve fit the tangent function of 270° to 90°… kind of like NOAA’s “adjustment” trendline.