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Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study?
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at DailyTech, a blogger has discovered a Y2K bug in a NASA climate study by the same writer who accused the Bush administration of trying to censor him on the issue of global warming. The authors have acknowledged the problem and released corrected data. Now the study shows the warmest year on record for the contiguous 48 states as being 1934, not 1998 as previously reported in the media. In fact, the corrected study shows that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War II." The article's assertion that there's a propaganda machine working on behalf of global warming theorists is outside the bounds of the data, which I think is interesting to note.
What software were they using that wouldn't be Y2k compliant? Graph generators from the late 70's?
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As if millions of voices suddenly cried out "oops" and were suddenly silenced.
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Who cares what this data says, don't we already have consensus on this?
9 out of 10 scientists say the hottest decade was the 1990s, how dare anyone suggest otherwise?
Zogby should poll all of the scientists in the world and figure out what is going on.
Now we can drive bigger cars and oil will never run out! :0
You shank my Jengaship!
Hey, guess what?
Living in Pennsylvania, this year, I had over a foot of snow in my yard.
In the middle of April.
April.
That's not right! We need to do bad things to the environment, before we're all victims of global cooling!
The rule of law here is:
1. If manmade global warming naysayers are at fault, it's a conspiracy. Root them out!
2. If manmade global warming proponents are at fault, then it's all an honest misunderstanding. Watch "Inconvenient Truth" again. Repeat.
Some skepticism is needed here.
Um... Isn't that what this article is?
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...if we all burn, then Microsoft burns too!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is already made up."
I need to know if anyone that had anything to do with collecting the data, writing the software, writing the article, or writing the summary, was ever on an oil company's payroll, ever owned stock in an oil company, or ever owned a car that wasn't a hybrid.
If I don't believe in global warming the article summary was more than enough corroboration, and is the final proof that global warming is a conspiracy run by Al Gore, the IPCC, the media, and anyone else who uses the words "Global Warming" without saying it in a mocking tone.
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Exactly. Scientists shouldn't hold firm to any theories of global climate change until they can *repeatedly* test the impact of human-induced CO2 emissions on *several* copies of the earth.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
and i was so looking forward to tomato farming on the antartic circle.
- js.
The huge fluctuations in temperature differential are the main causes of the ever increasing stomr activity in the Atlantic and Pacific.
BWAHAHAHA. Have you SEEN the hurricane projections and reality lately? What active hurricane season?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Here, let me give you a bad analogy;
Fill a bathtub with hot water. As the tub fills, throw in a few grains of rice. Now, it's the Meterologist's job to predict where the rice will be in an hour, tomorrow and 4 days from now. It's the Climatologists job to predict the temperature of the water in a year, and 5 years, and 10 years.
I just love it when people want the Climatologist to determine the position of the rice before it's put in the tub. And denounce global warming because he can't.
Wow, you just set the record for worst analogy ever. WTF is this supposed to mean? What does the rice represent? What does the tub represent? Why would I denounce global warming because some guy can't figure out where the rice is!? Did he look in the cupboard?
I've never been more confused.
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Obviously you're bothered by that turn of phrase.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.
Your analogy is flawed. You should throw a handful of cars into the tub.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!