Al Gore's 2nd Really Inconvenient Truth
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hypocentre
Fri, 08/17/2007 - 09:56
Can you imagine the brouhaha from the climate change evangelists and climate change industry over the following story?
NASA find error in US climate data and 1998, not 1934 was the hottest year on record!
It would be headline news and yet another 'proof' that the Earth was getting warmer.
Except the opposite has happened. NASA have corrected their data for urbanisation after being caught out by a Canadian amateur meteorologist and now 1934, not 1998 is the hottest year on record. Not only this, but only one of the ten warmest years on record in the US is from the 21st century and half of them occurred before 1939.
Did NASA announce this with the fanfare that would accompany the fictitious headline above? Did they heck!. They just quietly changed the data without explanation. The silence from the climate change lobby is deafening.
Source: The Guardian
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These statistics do only
These statistics do only apply in the US though and have negligable effect on the global data. Quite a few people seem to have overlooked this.
not the point
This wasn't the point of the blog post. The point is that NASA slipped out the correction on the quiet where as if it had been the other way round there would probably have been a huge fanfare.
Hmmm, not quite that simple
Hmmm, not quite that simple anymore. Scientists don't do their own publicity, organisations have PR people for that now. I agree that the publcity people would probably have made a huge deal if it were the other way around. However, PR people have a thing for releasing what they perceive as "good" news only, so...