Thursday, August 9, 2007

We could REALLY USE that Gore effect right about now...

It's damned hot, people.

Damned hot.

We really, really need brother Al to come home to TN and give us a talk on global warming, because we could certainly use the snow right about now...

Hat tip to Michael Asher at DailyTech for this one:

Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
Michael Asher (Blog) - August 9, 2007 11:49 AM

Years of bad data corrected; 1998 no longer the warmest year on record


My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000.

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NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.

The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the US global warming propaganda machine could be huge.

He closes this article stating that he doesn't think the media will give it proper attention.

That's ok, amigo, we'll help you get the word out.

Once and Always, an American Fighting Man

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