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Not Much Warming Under the Sun — Berardelli 2008 (312): 3 — ScienceNOWInteresting research, but what do the graphs represent? The yellow one is labeled as solar output, and the other two may be “El Nino cycles” and “global mean temperature.” This is a good example of poor data display (and probably the fault of the magazine or web editor; not the original authors). 

Not Much Warming Under the Sun — Berardelli 2008 (312): 3 — ScienceNOW

Interesting research, but what do the graphs represent? The yellow one is labeled as solar output, and the other two may be “El Nino cycles” and “global mean temperature.” This is a good example of poor data display (and probably the fault of the magazine or web editor; not the original authors).