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muriel_volestrangler

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3. Yes - his polynomial is flat during 1993

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:46 PM

Jul 2014

and we can't see what it would have modelled before then, but the turn looks suspiciously as if it would have had sea levels falling before then, which isn't what happened in reality, and there would be no justification for saying "forget what happened before 1993 - everything changed that year".

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More than 2.5m Sea Level Rise by 2040? [View all] marmar Jul 2014 OP

That looks like an unjustifiable extrapolation muriel_volestrangler Jul 2014 #1

And the sample is woefully, horribly, misleadingly short Dreamer Tatum Jul 2014 #2

Yes - his polynomial is flat during 1993 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2014 #3

So I would accept an extrapolation of at most one year Dreamer Tatum Jul 2014 #4