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<h3 class="storytitle">How to cook a graph in three easy lessons:</h3>
<p class="storytitle">"With all those degrees of freedom, I daresay you could fit the temperature record using hog-belly futures and New Zealand sheep population. Anybody want to try?"</p>
<p class="storytitle">-Climate scientist Ray Pierre, writing on Realclimate.org:</p>
<p class="storytitle"><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=207">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=207</a></p></div>
<div><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/how-to-cook-a-graph-in-three-easy-lessons/#more-567">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/how-to-cook-a-graph-in-three-easy-lessons/#more-567</a></div>
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<div>One response to Ray Pierre's article:</div>
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<div>Raypierre:</div>
<div><br>What do you suppose motivates someone, a scientist, nonetheless, to cook his data this way and make such a concerted effort to mislead the public?</div>
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<p class="response">[<strong>Response:</strong> That's a question for psychologists. I wish I knew the answer. I doubt that he, or Dick Lindzen for that matter, are in it for the money, so that takes out the easiest of motives. I think it's probably a matter of ideological blinders. The perceived implications of global warming being a real problem are so dissonant with some other value system that it imposes some kind of filter on the interpretation of objective reality. Anything I say would be just guessing, though. Fortunately, this problem doesn't seem to plague too many scientists. –raypierre]</p>
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<p class="response">From the Wall Street Journal, 1997:</p>
<p class="response"><a href="http://www.junkscience.com/news/robinson.htm">http://www.junkscience.com/news/robinson.htm</a></p>
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<center>Science Has Spoken:</center>
<center>Global Warming Is a Myth</center></h2></div>
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<div><i>Arthur Robinson and Zachary Robinson are chemists at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.</i></div>
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<p>For more on the "Oregon Institute of Science & Medicine:"</p>
<p><br><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/</a></p>
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