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Originally Posted by afv011
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I get a laugh out of those charts showing what has been termed the hockey stick graph. You may have noted that the program that produced the original graph which was "liberated" during the 2009 "Climategate" hacking incident was found to produce virtually the same output regardless of the input values so the increase in temperature (actually CO2 levels) would go as near to asymptotic as possible.
Note that this has nothing to do with global warming. Given the level of well funded opposition to any suggestion that humans could affect the climate ("oil-soaked think tanks" was a favourite of mine), it's not all that surprising that both sides became polarized and there was little interest on the part of the East Anglia CRU into exposing anything that could cast doubt on their work.