<div>I especially enjoyed the graph (found at the lower URL, not the URL immediately below), linking pirates to the temperature record, after reading climate scientist Ray Pierre's piece,</div>
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<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><br>
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<div>in which he exposes the misleading graph sourced from global warming inactivist scientist Roy Spencer, in the astonishing Wall Street Journal article from 1997, that pontificated that "Science Has Spoken: Global Warming is a Myth." Fraudulent "gastronomical" graphs are published to mislead a gullible public about climate science, from Roy Spencer, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (I mean "malarkey," excuse me), the Heartland Institute, et. al. </div>
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<div>If the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster, "cooking" graphs, and radioactive carbon dating results, may be divinely endorsed pursuits, given the possible culinary focus of an all powerful spaghetti monster:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/">http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/</a></div>
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<div>From URL above:</div>
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<div>Some find that hard to believe, so it may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don't understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease.</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>