Analyzing Climate Change Honestly

A reader, Tom, submitted the graph below as evidence that climate change is a hoax.

Tom: If I were you I would ask why these data are so far out of alignment with everything we see in credible and reliable sources, e.g., our scientific papers and magazines.

As I was explaining to a friend yesterday, it’s not hard to cherry-pick data points to deliberately misrepresent the truth, though people of integrity simply don’t do that.