Second, the current study
shows robust correlation only in the southern states, where the ENSO signal is especially clear.
Without this statistically
robust correlation of the empirically observed CO2 and temperature data, the case for causation is weakened.
«You can't get
a robust correlation using the observational record alone.»
Once this evidence had been synthesized, it became much clearer that there were
robust correlations between the temperature and sunspots.
Using a similar approach, we have found
a robust correlation (Way, B.M., Hunter, J.F., and Lieberman, M.D. manuscript in preparation; see Supplementary Material) between the A118G polymorphism and individualism — collectivism (Figure 1).