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Manipulating the Data to Find Your Version of the Truth How can global warming be real when there is so much snow and cold weatherThat’s what some people wondered after a couple massive snowstorms buried Washington, DC , the winter of 2009 – 2010 . Politicians across the capital made jokes and built as they disputed the existence of climate change Some conciuded the planet simply could not be warming with all the snow on ground These comments frustrated Joseph Romm, a physicist and climate expert with the Center for American Progress . He spent weeks turning data into Information and graphs to educate anyone who would listen as to why this reasoning was incorrectClimate change is all about analyzing data, tuming it into Information to detect trends. You cannot observe climate change by looking out the window , you have to review decades of weather dara with advanced tools to really understand the trends Increasingly we see politicians , economists , and newscasters taking tough issues and them down to simplistic arguments over what the data mean, each Interpreting the data and spinning the data their views and agendas . You need to understand the data and turn them into useful information or else you will not understand when someone is telling the truth and when you are being lied to Brainstorm two or three types of data economists use to measure the economy . 1. How do they turn the data into Information