So Erin talked about falling EI benefits last month, which got
me thinking about the longer term trend here.
Not exact matches
When I am
thinking about what
trend or company invest next, I always
think long term.
Linking such changes to arguments
about world order provides a way of
thinking about their place in
longer -
term historical patterns and their relation to
trends in the wider system of societies.
As much as Cuomo vehemently disclaims any
thinking about a presidential run, he's avidly attentive to how his current moves fit into
longer -
term political
trends.
Aspects of his comment may be unwelcome to just
about everyone in one way or another, but I
think it is worth noting that he says that the data issues don't detract from clear evidence of a
long -
term warming
trend and that carbon dioxide is «a major climate forcing» (along with many others):
Looking anew at the timeseries, I
think I mis - stated where the skewing of the
long -
term trend came in; really, it looks more like a drastic cooling from 1950 or so'til
about 1970 is what did the trick.
In the
long term, it is a positive
trend that China is not only taking this step at a time when pricing carbon is no
longer even up for debate in the United States, but also
thinking about the future development of the market.
Bearing in mind their previous hubris
about short -
term cycles being manmade, their gross, unproven assumption
about CO2 as a climate driver and the fact that the signal is far less than the error bars in the noise then why would anyone
think that the
long -
term trend is anything other than just a separate upswinging natural cycle?
The problem with the chart is that it starts in 1998 (not to mention
thinking anything particularly meaningful
about long -
term climate
trends can be extrapolated from 12 years — try this one instead).