hehehe On 8/10/07, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting - 5 of the 10 warmest year in the last century happend before WWII > > --- > > http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm > > An example of the Y2K discontinuity in action (Source: NASA Goddard > Institute for Space Studies)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. > > These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to > fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on > climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used > to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result > appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data. > > McKintyre notified the pair of the bug; Ruedy replied and acknowledged the > problem as an "oversight" that would be fixed in the next data refresh. > > 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 U.S. global warming > propaganda machine could be huge. > > Then again -- maybe not. I strongly suspect this story will receive little to > no attention from the mainstream media. >
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