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.

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Another Stupid Global Warming Denier

[solinari]

How is this news? This isn't even a serious debate. Global warming deniers ALWAYS want to pick out some little selection of data (like the surface air temperature of in the United States ONLY) and pretend that it somehow disproves everything. Then they claim to be persecuted when someone points out how stupid this is!

Let me quote from the article here:

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. And let's google "hottest year on record" and quote some of the "trumpetting media":

The WMO says that 2005 is currently the second warmest year on record, after 1998. Averaged separately for both hemispheres, 2005 surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere (0.65 C above 30-year mean) are likely to be the warmest and for the southern hemisphere (0.32 C above 30-year mean), the fourth warmest in the instrumental record from 1861 to the present. WMO is, of course, the World Meteorological Organization which looks at global temperatures, for which the US is just one single data point which was incorrect by 0.01 in 1998. That totally changes everything!!! /sarcasm

Re:Orson Scott Card: Laugh at Gore, Please

[DavidM01]

Sorry no. WHen you ask for billions of dollars the PROOF is on you, and it hasn't been proved at all. 1. Proof that man is causing *A significant amount* of global warming. My body heat contributes, the question is *how much*. So far no falsifiable evidence there. 2. Proof that the doomsday preachers *know what the temperature should be*. So what if the temp raises 1 degree in the next 100 years? Prove to me its as damaging as dropping our economy in the toilet. You DO realize we didn't even use fossil fuels in any great means 100 years ago? What makes you so sure we won't have something better? 3. Proof that your 'plans' like Kyoto will make any significant impact at all. Look at question #1. If man only contributes 5% then there is certainly no point in working for Al Gore & Co. So far the only answers from the green-nuts on these issues is 'consensus' WHICH ISN'T SCIENCE. Remember these are the same fools who warned of an growing Ozone hole(which didn't exist) and a coming ICE age during the 70s. For such a science only crowd, so many in here don't ask for many when its time to jump on the 'LOOK AT ME' bandwagon and pretend they are saving the world. Laugh.