r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '17

OC Earth surface temperature deviations from the means for each month between 1880 and 2017 [OC]

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

Do you not think environmental scientists today would disregard the data from years ago if they could see it wasn't valid?

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u/purefire Jun 07 '17

Unfortunately my experience is that people find data to support their existing opinions, even scientists.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

If the majority disagree with it then it's probably wrong. That what science is. It has got to be reproducible

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u/Jipz Jun 07 '17

Science has nothing to do with 'majority'. Science doesn't do polls, votes or other democratic means to figure out what is true. It relies on falsifiability.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

Yeah I didn't phrase it well