A Y2K bug, and perhaps probably some politically motivated turning of blind eyes, produced data that has misled the public for years:
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.
A NASA scientist likely covered up this information, at least for as long as possible:
So James Hansen, who claimed Bush was politicizing Global Warming, refused to provide his algorithms to other researchers so they could simply check his work, hiding his own errors from them and distorting the science he claims to care about oh-so-much until some persistent researchers went to the great trouble of reconstructing his algorithms themselves.
I’ve written on the cult of Global Warming in the past (here, here, and here – some excellent links in those posts and related comments), and noted issues with the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, as well as the possible effects of a weakening magnetic field and solar activity (e.g. cosmic rays). The best argument for the doomsday scenarios turns out to be data “suggests” drastic change occurred under “similar” conditions – 55 million years ago. But it is after all a religion of sorts.
Hat-tip to ROK Drop. Also see Michelle Malkin on this.
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