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.

Comments

War of words.

[jshriverWVU]

The whole debate is just confusing. You have "scientists" who claim this and that, and try to debunk each others findings. While I tried to keep a mental record of it, it's just pointless.

For those of you who wonder if it's real don't listen to the news or read the papers, look outside. I live about an hour from the Canadian border so it gets pretty cold up here. This past winter we didnt get any snow till February. In fact, I saw a groundhog out on Jan 1st. Trees and shrubs in my yard were starting to to bud in early January.

While I'm not that old (under 30), when I was young I remember having a white christmas almost every year, and it started snowing in November and lasted till late Feb or March. Now we might get 1-2 snow storms a year and they tend to be small.

If this isn't global warming, I don't care. But it is messed up, and I find it hard to believe it isn't our fault.

Re:so..

[eboluuuh]

"Computer viruses are well-known to corrupt data in a file; especially after you remove them."

Re:Orson Scott Card: Laugh at Gore, Please

[Graff]

I say it's time for Orson Scott Card to abandon the faked gospels of the "Church of Latter Day Saints". As opposed to that of any other religion?

I'm not going to judge people by their religion, personally I don't see the point in religion but as long as people don't use it as an excuse to do evil I'm fine with whatever faith they have. On the other hand I really don't see the difference in believing in the Book of Mormon verses the Koran verses the Tao-te-ching. Along with the many other faiths on Earth, none of these religions have any rational, scientific basis and therefore they are all simply interesting fictions.

Re:Orson Scott Card: Laugh at Gore, Please

[LunaticTippy]

Religions are all the same?! Here's my quick guide to how retarded religions are:

5. peaceful, mostly harmless: buddhism, pagans, some mainline churches.
4. wtf!? At least they keep to theirselves. Amish, Quakers, Mennonites
3. Stop messing with others. Please. Fundies of many stripes that seek to impose their beliefs on others.
2. Kill theirselves. Heaven's gate. Jonestown. Yikes.
1. Kills others. Antiabortionists, religious warriors, fag draggers, black killers, al quaida, etc. If only they realized that god kills those who kill theirselves. Or something.

I think they are all full of god-droppings, but I see a huge and amazing spectrum of lunacy.

Personally, I place Scientology around 1.05, Jehovah's Witnesses around 2.25 and Mormons around 2.5 - well along the way to being highly toxic dangerous menaces to society.

You should check out Galactic Rapture a funny and insightful scifi book about different religions.