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eppur_se_muova

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1. Crap. Climate reports will need to start using Olberman's "worse, worser, and worsest".

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 01:24 PM

Feb 23

Is it just me, or does that average look more like an exponential than a linear (or quadratic) plot ?

Anything controlled by population is likely to be exponential, and we're kidding ourselves if we don't realize it. Of course, we've always kidded ourselves about population growth. If we don't tackle that problem, it won't matter that much what ultimately does us in; something will do us in if population growth is never checked.

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Crap. Climate reports will need to start using Olberman's "worse, worser, and worsest". eppur_se_muova Feb 23 #1

I assumed a quadratic by looking at the graphic for the axis on which the sinusoidal function is imposed. NNadir Feb 23 #2