I know. I know. The Bear seems obsessed with Global Warming. And yes, I know. I promised that, because for most of my readers, the Global Warming thing is about as interesting as watching a thermometer rise, my most recent rant would be the last for a while on the subject (not counting, of course, the piece a few days ago about driving to the shops).
Unfortunately, like a seasoned politician, I'm going to break that promise because "The Media" has been remarkably silent on something that, had it been the other way around, would have been front page news...
Last week, without fanfare, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies corrected an error in its measurement of "global" temperatures. Actually, to say they "corrected" an error is somewhat misleading, because while they certainly fixed the numbers, their disclosure of the said "correction" was buried in an obscure statement posted to the GISS website as follows...
"...the USHCN station records up to 1999 were replaced by a version of USHCN data with further corrections after an adjustment computed by comparing the common 1990-1999 period of the two data sets."
I have no idea what that means but I'm sure Sir Humphrey would be proud of them for using so many words to obscure the real meaning of whatever it was they're trying to say. All I know is that the GISS is the place that's responsible for monitoring the world's temperature. It's the place that's published the numbers that the doomsdayers point to when they want to make us feel guilty about exhaling all that CO2. You know the numbers... the ones that say 1998 and 2006 were the hottest years on record... and the ones that were supposed to show solid evidence for run away global warming....
... except that when they corrected the error they now produced a set of numbers that didn't fit the accepted Global Holy Truth. That's because 1934 regained its crown as the hottest year on record, with 1998 second, 1921 third, 2006 a dismal fourth and 1931 fifth on that list of all time hottest years. Yup... three of the five hottest years on record were BEFORE WWII. These are numbers that can not be explained by the Holy Truth of Global Warming thinking.
Oops.
I've said it before. The climate heats up. The climate cools down. Get over it.
3 comments:
Amen brother!! It's a bunch of hyped up garbage to sell papers and get politicians re-elected.
Some dude on the radio said this the other day when another "Global Warming" story broke...
100 years ago, you had to go outside to an outhouse to take care of business... With that level of sophistication, how can we expect their temperature measurements to be within any range of accuracy?
I come to Chester for all of my news.
Thanks, mate!
Hey Chester...
Any chance you could post the url to the article where they corrected the temperatures? It would be handy to have when my kids start getting indoctrinated with the "Global Warming" crap at school!
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