Climate Scientists Are Deceiving You!

Join us today as we dismantle a claim against the graphs that climate scientists present. Oh, and stay tuned to learn why increased CO2 levels isn't necessarily good for plants.

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♫ Finn and Jake, by WVLF and Uth Fruit

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[professorstick]

Small correction: I get that 140 systolic isn't "outrageously" high. It was a hyperbole. Either I shouldn't have said "outrageously" or I should have made it higher. Either way, the point I made still remains.

[icansciencethat]

What I find most outstanding is that even when he changes the vertical axis to begin at 0, we STILL see an increase that looks something like 30%. Approximately 300 to 400. And then he goes on to suggest that it barely moves! As if 30% wasn't significant!

[stevenbryant]

It is 85 Deg. F outside right now. If it goes up twenty-five percent and then becomes 107 Deg. F, showing you that temperature change on a graph starting at 0 Deg. F should not make you feel cooler.

[paulgascoigne]

I'm guessing the guy wouldn't care if his wages were cut by 35%.. It's barely anything afterall.

[Ernoskij]

9:57 ehm... am I the only one who sees a rather large growth spike after 1960 on this zoomed out chart? Yes amount is continuously rising, but it's a somewhat stable increase from 1750 to 1960, at which point the increase is suddenly a lot higher, showing that something significant has happened there to alter the rate the CO2 level rise by at that time. Even the zoomed out chart shows that very clearly.

[Pengochan]

gnuplot (more "comand line" like) or veusz (more wysiwyg) are just two examples of free software tools to plot scientific graphs, and yes, they are used by sceintists to make just such graphs, no special "lab" computers needed. But most graphs at first look like what is shown in the video when scientists are taking a first look at their results. Making it look "nice" (adjust font sizes, line thicknesses, choose colors easily distinguishable (best avoid yellow) etc. is done for presentations / papers.

Typically the software will "autoadjust" the axis so the region where the data is fills the plot, as that is what is wanted: to focus on differences, trends, etc.

As to the discussion if the rise in CO2 in recent decades is "fast" or not or if it is "high" or not you have to compare it to other data, similar to the blood pressures: if you have no idea about blood pressures in the first place the values are more or less meaningless to you.

[bobsenior]

Great video stick as usual. Regardless of the ins and outs of climate change I want to send everyone a message. Tree your street. Plant trees. And if you have to build a house use plantation timber. Timber is the only renewable building material we have. It doesn't have to be melted and formed into shape. Trees also provide shade which cuts down the amount of heat that hits the ground. Plus they look so much better than empty concrete. Not a cure for climate change I know but it's better than nothing. Plus trees take up nutrients from deep down in the soil profile and bring them up to where they can be utilised by smaller plants instead of being flushed away as you rightly point out. The destruction of native forest for the establishment of grazing land or palm oil plantations is driving me nuts regardless of the ins and outs of the carbon cycle. I wish I could get everyone to stop using palm oil but it's put in just about everything that's processed these days. Eat fresh fruit and veggies and use olive oil to cook. Remember think globally and act locally. Here in Australia in the town we live in we have three garbage bins. One for recyclables, one for rubbish and one for grass clippings and food waste that goes to the sewerage farm to be composted and made into er yes compost. Just sayin.

[acceptablecarrot]

Cool video. One knit pick. You don't need expensive software to produce. Publication ready graphs just use R or Python both free.

[Trithis]

I'd understand if it isn't for a while but could you cover the Petition Project, the petition against climate change that has signatures from "31, 487 American scientists [...] including 9, 029 with PhDs"?

[TheTwick]

Perhaps we should plot the average global surface temperature in degrees Kelvin - starting at zero! And start the time scale at the Big Bang (watch that temperature spike in the first 10 to the -34 seconds)

[dragonballisaanime]

Global warming is real if it wasn't then explain why I can't find club penguin anymore

(Thanks for the heart) jesus thx for the likes


Also congrats i remeber when you only had like 40k subs damn

[swinde]

9:59 ... Even this chart shows a LOT MORE than BARELY. It is like 35% more.

[thomasridley]

No matter how you graph it a 1/3 increase is substantial.

[cluckeryduckery]

Woo hoo, a climate video on a skeptic channel. Would love to see more of these

[skyknight]

Professor stick, when are you going to tell us if you wear clothes or not?

[aviratthakor]

How can someone deny climate change? It is almost like someone denying the earth is round...oh wait.

[robinthemagicconchshell]

That, my dear stick, was the perfect time to upload this video. I just read through a bunch of pseudoscientific comments and I need some actual science now.

[markverschell]

I agree with your take on the communication skills of scientists. My Ph.D. advisor used to say that “if you can’t explain your work to an educated High School student, you don’t really understand it.” He pressed us to communicate clearly (at a minimum, no “jargon” in the abstract).

[_JayRamsey_]

6:46
Damnit! I finished my snacks at the three minute mark!
Time to pop open the "we're all screwed" vodka.

[forhago]

Even if you zoom the graphs out, it's still clear that there's a major CO2 increase. Are these people blind.