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NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record
An anonymous reader writes "It may not seem like it, but 2010 has tied 2005 as the warmest year since people have been keeping records, according to data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. That difference is so small that it puts them in a statistical tie. In the new analysis, the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880." Adds jamie: "This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average — 0.62 +/- 0.07 C above, to be precise. It was the wettest year on record too, according to the Global Historical Climatology Network."
Notable lack of numbers on any specific years. Probably because they've written a trend line for where the temperature should be to make the claim that every decade has been warmer-- when we know that this is a lie, and temperatures have not risen since 1998. Either that, or they were mistaken two years ago when they said that other factors like reduced solar activity were counteracting the expected warming.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Luckily few people without some kind of vested interest in this believes a word of this any more.
Frankly you'd have to be a special kind of stupid to after so many years and no evidence whatsoever.
I fully expect to be sitting here in my house in the year 2030 shivering in the snow being told that it's the 50th consecutive hottest year on record
(And that's why we have to pay more tax again....)
Sorry but no... Just no
The trend is flat since 1998.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The skeptic blogs continuously catch NASA revising older temperatures down. 1998 has been the hottest year on record... Now 2005/2010 is? This article from a skeptic blog concedes that 2010 was hot, but the included graph shows 2005 no where hear 1998/2010. What is the point of mislabeling 2005? Does a 5 year gap lend more credence to AGW than a 12 year gap?
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
It's not called "global warming" anymore. Didn't you get the memo? It's "climate change" that way they're always right! ;)
It's is now "global climate change". That way it doesn't matter if the planet is getting warmer or colder. As long as it is changing the "global climate change" proponents will be correct. Sort of like betting on both black and red on the roulette table. You only lose if 0 (or 00) comes up.
Thank you for your attention. You may now return to the "yes it is/no it isn't/its fucking cold out/weather is not climate you moron" flame war.
What makes humans more important than the rest of the ecosystem?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Exactly. Once you get caught brazenly lying your ass off the Fool me twice, shame on me rule kicks in.
All of these guys get caught over and over cooking data and not only keep their jobs, the media expect us to actually listen to the crooks and liars. Not that the legacy media don't also get caught lying, fabricating evidence, exhibiting outragous biases and pretty much the same litany of sins against the Truth the Warmers are guilty of.
Democrat delenda est
Exactly. Once you get caught brazenly lying your ass off the Fool me twice, shame on me rule kicks in.
All of these guys get caught over and over cooking data and not only keep their jobs, the media expect us to actually listen to the crooks and liars.
So to use you logic, I shouldn't listen to you, since the oft repeated assertions of "data cooking" are erroneous at best, and lies at worst. First off, you don't mention any specific names or incidents. Nor do you give any background information so a poster can judge your assertions. I can only assume you are referring to the "hide the decline" comments in the stolen emails, regarding the substitution of more reliable thermometer data for less reliable tree ring temperature proxy data. It seems that an unfortunately phrased text snippet can outweigh a strong body of rigorous observation and logical argument.
Posts like yours show a disturbingly casual disregard for any semblance of truth. You are trolling, pure and simple.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when first he appears as a protector - Plato (423 to 327 BC)