The impact of human activities on earth's climate has been a topic of debate for decades. Below are examples of statistics/graphics posted to support different arguments on the subject matter.

Graphic#1:According to the 2012 National Climate Report conducted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),the contiguous United Stated (CONUS) average annual temperature of 55.3 F was 3.2 F above the 20th century average, and 2012 was the warmest year for the nation in the 1895-2012 period of record. This report was viewed as another evidence that global temperatures are rapidly increasing and the graphic below was created to emphasize the issue. Note: The graphic below wasnotcreated by NOAA.

Your Task

Take the position of a skepticto comment on why facts reported by NOAA might not be appropriately used ((deliberately or not) in the graphic below.

HOW 2012 STACKS UP THE WARMEST YEARS ON RECORD CONTIGUOUS U.S. 55.3 55.5" 55.0 54.31 54.32 54.5 54.14 53.81 53.93 54.0" 53.50 1921 1999 53.0- 1934 2006 1998 2012Global air temperature change in Celsius 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 1998-2012 0.0 1998 '00 '05 '10 2012