1934 the warmest year on record!
Michelle Malkin has the breakdown, building on this post at Daily Tech, on the astounding revision of NASA’s climate figures, which through an error had made the much-publicized claim that 1998 was the hottest year in the U.S. on record. Turns out it was 1934. The revision was provoked by Steve McIntyre’s actually reverse engineering the work–after the scientists who committed the error refused to share the data:
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.
I remain a persuadable agnostic on the whole business, but the urgency of the propaganda jihad here trips a contrarian wire in me, leaving me deeply suspicious. If I were a betting man, I’d bet that this thing falls apart big time, and sooner than later.
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