Oops. It turns out that 1998 wasn't the hottest year on record for the US, after all.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/now_its_the_1930s_that_are_heating/ Global warming must be working backwards, because NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, having fixed some calculating errors, has discovered that the hottest year was in fact 1934. (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt) That's not all, as Steve McIntyre explains: Four of the top 10 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 leaderboard, behind even 1900. The new leader-board of the hottest recorded years in the US: 1934 1998 1921 2006 1931 1999 1953 1990 1938 1939 These figures apply only to the US, and the corrections - says McIntyre - do "not make any real difference to the world rankings", which generally put 1998 as the world's hottest year since records were kept. But two things should be noted. First, that the most basic calculations behind the global warming hysteria can be screwed up, and stay undetected for years. Second, that NASA quietly changed these figures without any of the press releases and alarmist reports that usually follow the discovery of some data that will feed the fear. On 8/9/07, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True, and most scientists think Anthropogenic GW is real, while a smaller > number of scientists have not formed that same opinion. > > I choose to believe the majority, because I think their arguments are more > sound, and that the evidence seems to be on their side. > > Why do you choose to believe the others? Is it the propensity of evidence, > or is there some other reason....perhaps political? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
