| Rath said: All I said was that the graphs are bullshit, which they are. It's really just horribly misleading statistics. |
Beyond the fact that statistics as a whole tends to be misleading without huge amounts of context I think you're being extremely dismissive of the information presented where a simply skeptical view is called for.
The only substantive point you raise is inflation but inflation doesn't explain why certain metrics presented, like National Income, which have never gone negative before are now hugely negative (similar stories with several other graphs). Beyond that inflation doesn't change the implications of the sharp slopes on the most recent decade of the unadjusted graphs.
Having said that, you're certainly right that adjusting for inflation provides critical context which raises mitigating factors to the conclusion of unavoidable full-scale catastrophe, but it doesn't kill the point outright.
Not to mention that even the inflation adjusted graphs are pretty striking by themselves:
In short, yes there is some misleading information here, but I don't think declaring all of it utterly useless is right and I don't think it makes for a very good argument.
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