James Hansen on the Warmest Year Brouhaha

Jamie writes "In response to earlier reports, Dr. James Hansen, top climate scientist with NASA, has issued a statement on the recent global warming data correction. He points out 'the effect on global temperature was of order one-thousandth of a degree, so the corrected and uncorrected curves are indistinguishable.' In a second email he shows maps of U.S. temperatures relative to the world in 1934 and 1998, explains why the error occurred (it was not, as reported, a 'Y2K bug') and, in response to errors by 'Fox, Washington Times, and their like,' attacks the 'deceit' of those who 'are not stupid [but] seek to create a brouhaha and muddy the waters in the climate change story.'"

Comments

Obligatory Firesign Theatre reference

[objekt]

Brouhaha?

Ha-HA-ha!

Re:The bigger issue

[kir]

Huh! Apparently scaremongering gets one a +5, Informative nowadays. We'll see how long that lasts though.

Re:Yes they have

[crashfrog]

Or what, tough guy? Now I'm genuinely curious.