Comment Re:you can't boil this down to one variable (Score 1) 216
You can't distill complex information down to a single variable. If you could, then you could see everything important in front of you with ONE pixel.
You can't do that. Accept that it is complicated and deal with the complexity. Do not pretend you have magical powers that allow you to boil down very very complex datasets into a single variable.
That is a big issue with the whole AGW debate. One temperature for the whole planet is unreasonable. You need to break the data out and show the regional surface data, show the sat data, show the ocean data... etc. And then looking at everything you can make an assessment. But boiling it all down to one variable is nonsense.
Same thing happened in the economic crash of 2008. The stupid finance companies boiled financial risk down to ONE number.
How did that work out?
You cannot do it. Smarter men then either of us have thought they could have they've failed every time. Don't.