oops, Globull Warming Suffers Severe Fact Shifting

Now isn't this cute, the stated US temperatures have been revised, downwards, and the revision makes most of the foundation arguments used for globull warming inoperative. Michelle Malkin has the full wrap up, Rush Limbaugh on his radio show on Thursday 8/9/07 started the avalanche which pushed this over the cliff.

I wonder, did Hansen and crew think they could just revise the data and no one would notice, or did they have to make the data fit the desired record in the first place. It could be just an error, but then when you add in the reluctance to give out the source code for the temperature collection and analysis, you have to wonder. I hate riddles.

GISS U.S. Temperatures (deg C) in New Order

Year	Old	New
1934	1.23	1.25
1998	1.24	1.23
1921	1.12	1.15
2006	1.23	1.13
1931	1.08	1.08
1999	0.94	0.93
1953	0.91	0.90
1990	0.88	0.87
1938	0.85	0.86
1939	0.84	0.85

Here’s the old leaderboard.

Year	Old	New
1998	1.24	1.23
1934	1.23	1.25
2006	1.23	1.13
1921	1.12	1.15
1931	1.08	1.08
1999	0.94	0.93
1953	0.91	0.90
2001	0.90	0.76
1990	0.88	0.87
1938	0.85	0.86

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This effort is the result of Steve McIntyre, who now has two major contributions in the search for the truth.

1) Proving the Mann "hockey stick" used in all Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was based on unsupportable data and methods.
2) Proving how yearly temperature anomalies for the USA are based on data that had been processed incorrectly.

Bottom Line

According to the new data published today by NASA, 1998 is no longer the hottest year ever. 1934 is. Four of the top 10 years of US CONUS high temperature deviations are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.

James Hansen, who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change, publicly claimed the Bush administration was putting political pressure on him. Hansen also refused to provide Steve McIntyre, or anyone else, with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so Steve McIntyre and his volunteers reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data, but as you look at the revised data, you would also see that the temperatures long before Y2K were also changed.

The effect on the US global warming propaganda machine could be huge. Then again, alot depends on what Rush Limbaugh does tomorrow, you don't really think the drive by media will cover this story in a facutal way do you?

If all this doesn't make you go hmmm, you need more caffine.