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Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study?

Posted by Zonk on from the not-such-a-good-thing dept.

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.

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  1. Y2k? by Major+Blud · · Score: 5, Funny

    What software were they using that wouldn't be Y2k compliant? Graph generators from the late 70's?

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    1. Re:Y2k? by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, it's NASA. They have to test their computers for space-proofness, radiation-proofness, and drunk user-proofness. Obviously those tests take time, 50 years in this case...what? You didn't think those old Analog computers used around the end of WWII were just thrown out right?

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  2. I felt a great disturbance in environmentalism by GammaKitsune · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if millions of voices suddenly cried out "oops" and were suddenly silenced.

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  3. But what's the consensus by huckamania · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Cool! by cigarky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we can drive bigger cars and oil will never run out! :0

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  5. Re:Hume's Maxim by ArcherB · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some skepticism is needed here.

    Um... Isn't that what this article is?

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  6. Re:Hume's Maxim by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Funny

    RTFA. There is a link to NASA posting the new numbers. Need more corroboration? If I believe in global warming I need to see the bug, presented and explained by the NASA official that made the mistake, and I need to see the data that the algorithms operated on, presented and explained by someone with a doctorate in climatology.
    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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  7. Re:War of words. by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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