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| 2007-08-13 |
| Hat tip Terran Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA's Web site and look at the "U.S. surface air temperature" rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that something has changed. Then again, you might not. They're not issuing any press releases about it. But they have quietly revised their All-Time Hit Parade for U.S. temperatures. The "hottest year on record" is no longer 1998, but 1934. What can I say: it's Mark Steyn A noteworthy snark They don't seem to realize this destroys the entire premise of the piece, which is meant to be about the dehumanization of soldiers in combat. Pvt. Beauchamp came pre-dehumanized. |
| Posted by:gromgoru |
| #3 Hansen and his cronies manipulated the raw data to normalize the data set...to account for bad data and poor instrument siting. However, the al-gore-ithm they used effectively inserted a positive bias on the raw data...especially skewing the data after the year 2000. The USHCN (U.S. Historical Climatology Network) raw and adjusted data are from NOAA, the keeper of the data sets. The bottom line? Four of the top 10 warm years are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the on the list, behind even 1900. Most importantly, according to the GISS, 1998 is no longer the warmest year in American history. That honor once again belongs to 1934. Al Gore's poster child, James Hansen made changes to the data which supported their claim of accelerated Global Warming...and got caught. Imagine that. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-08-13 18:06 |
| #2 The NASA site is: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-08-13 13:50 |
| #1 I have two "grand-rats" that are being indoctrinated to "Global Warming" through $ paid to University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. The kids are totally unable to to even consider that the stix may be skewed towards proving Goreski's cash-cow thesis. Disgusting misuse of taxpayers and parent $$$.... |
| Posted by: OyVey1 2007-08-13 08:45 |