NASA reports 2008 is ninth warmest year since 1880

McClatchy on Yahoo ^ | 12/16/08 | Renee Schoof

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON — The year 2008 was the ninth warmest year since instrumental temperature measurements began in 1880, and all of the nine warmest years have occurred in the past 11 years, NASA reported on Tuesday.

[NormsRevenge]

fwiw

more fuel for the fire..

[sionnsar]

Like I believe this... who’s the joker in charge?

[Thrownatbirth]

How soon before the official retraction?

[jurroppi1]

hasn’t NASA made several bogus claims like this in the recent past?

[SouthTexas]

Guess they missed these temps:

Northeast Siberia braces for extreme cold of -60C 15/12/2008 12:45 YAKUTSK, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Temperatures in the northeast Siberian republic of Yakutia could fall to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit) in the next few days, the local meteorological service said Monday.

[jdege]

Bollocks.

[Drango]

OK if they say so....

Exactly HOW did they calibrate the thermometers in 1880? In 1890? 1900-1930?

[goldstategop]

They're kidding, right? I'm sitting here freezing my lil buns off!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Hegemony Cricket]

Not
Another
Stupid
Announcement

[magellan]

[Lancey Howard]

Sure, I believe this.
Now excuse me while I go load up the woodstove again.

[NormsRevenge]

Dr. James Hansen, of course. ;-)

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a laboratory of the Earth Sciences Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a unit of the Columbia University Earth Institute. Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change.

[MovementConservative]

Weird. I wonder if they remembered to include all the Russian stations this time.
I expected the lack of solar activity to mean lower temps. I gotta figure no matter what man does, the sun is ultimately going to be the biggest factor in the climate.
If people are so worried about carbon dioxide, then let's go create some carbon sinks. I'm quite certain they could do it if they wanted. However, then they'd probably get upset about methane being release from the ground and belching cattle.

[Patrick1]

Seems NASA can read the election returns. Check’s in the mail guys.

[RobinOfKingston]

These pinheads need to stick with what they do best ... uhhhmm ... I forget what that is just now.

[the invisib1e hand]

doesn’t matter how cold you are. the ministry of weather has spoken.

[the invisib1e hand]

Columbia University Earth Institute

Explains everything.

[steelyourfaith]

Ho Hum. NASA/James Hansen has a tendency to be rather loose with the facts and attention to detail, like claiming October temps with September data.

 

Beam Me to Planet Gore !

[anniegetyourgun]

and we don’t have a marxist taking the helm on 1/20....the ministry of journalism has spoken....

[pgkdan]

Are they totally dishonest or just stupid?

[Lancey Howard]

hasn’t NASA made several bogus claims like this in the recent past?

Yeah, they have some steaming pantload there (James Hanson?) who is a big cheese in the "global warming" scam. I would bet he's behind this announcement.

[sionnsar]

James Hansen... that’s right. *\>8^(

[50cal Smokepole]

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[egannacht]

Welcome to sunny San Diego

[Lancey Howard]

[ElkGroveDan]

Yep. The farmers Almanac 50 years ago used to call these trends “warming spells.” Only difference then was that people didn’t start wetting their pants over it and sacrificing precious resources to pagan gods in order to stop the warming. It just stopped on its own. Now we live in a nation of hand-wringing ninnies.

[Salamander]

HUGE bollocks.

We haven’t had a “real summer” for over 5 years, now.

My greatest joy was being out at 3am on the Harley, enjoying a tee-shirt-hot night ride.

In freaking *August*, now I’m in full leather on my way home at ~10 pm~ because it’s too bloody cold to enjoy it.

Riding season *used* to start at the end of March but we’re lucky if mid-June is warm enough to go out without wearing enough leather to cover a sofa.

riding season ends in the beginning of September, too.
We used to ride until late October, at least.

[tarheelswamprat]

Deliberate, calculated use of “the Big Lie” mode of propaganda...

Science be damned, these people mean to “win”...

[blackbart.223]

"Hasn’t NASA made several bogus claims like this in the recent past?"

It must be funding time and NASA doesn't want GM to get all the goodies.

[al baby]

They have been pretty good at destroying space vehicles

[Names Ash Housewares]

and we all know how super accurate temp measurements were in 1880. LOL

[Bean Counter]

“The year 2008 was...”

2008 isn’t over yet...

[LiberConservative]

NASA can’t even fly our shuttles without getting a half-dozen of the worlds finest astronauts killed every 20 years or so. Who cares what these incompetent dolts have to say?

[hermgem]

Yes they did make false claims, namely Hansen their hot weather scientist got caught using false temp. figures for ‘07 by using previous year temperatures for Russia.
Never mind, the same institution but another forecaster made this latest claim.
Time these people step back from hot weather recording and go back to rocket science.

[jazusamo]

LOL! That’s a keeper.

[ChetNavVet]

“And in other news”..

It was also warmer on all observable planets in our solar system.

Film at 11.

I’m SO SO happy that I’m not as stupid as most...

Everybody that thinks “I” fell for that BS, owes me a cookie.

[I got the rope]

I wonder why Hansen doesn’t plot the US 5 year average anymore.

He must be too busy creating effing hotspots over Russia.

What a punk!

[I got the rope]

I wonder why Hansen doesn’t plot the US 5 year average anymore.

He must be too busy creating effing hotspots over Russia.

What a punk!

[FormerACLUmember]

Like I believe this... who’s the joker in charge?

That would be notorious NASA data faker Dr. James Hansen, an Al Gore associate and charlatan. He rewrites the data and cooks the books to make the severe current global COOLING look like global warming.

[I got the rope]

How are we supposed to know how accurate the temperatures are when you have His Royal Highness Jimbo Hansen “correcting” the past data down and the current data up. He must have corrected the temps 4 or 5 times in the last 2 months! He corrected the past temps at least 12 times in 2007!

[arthurus]

Each year of the last several has been colder than the previousl years but is inevitably proclaimed to be the _th warmest since... Well if it is the _th warmest since some other year then it means that it was warmer in the past than it is now. Two centuries ago oranges were grown in Georgia.. Five centuries ago Greenland was an agricultural land. And I am sure this winter will be proclaimed at some point to be the warmest winter since 1319. When glaciers cover Montreal the ecos will still be loudly demanding that something be done about global warming before it is too late next week.

[arthurus]

hasn’t NASA made several bogus claims like this in the recent past?

It is an annual event. That has reached the level of Tradition.

[blackbart.223]

He sort of looks like an anorexic Jimmy Carter. And we know how much we can trust peanut boy.

[the invisib1e hand]

Now we live in a nation of hand-wringing ninnies.

A world of 'em.

[incredulous joe]

Actually, it’s not. I have friends that work at Goddard and I been told the contracts is drying up.

Gotta go to NIH for the big bucks.

[blackbart.223]

"It is an annual event. That has reached the level of Tradition."

Follow the money.

[arthurus]

Global warming is a religious . certainty and does not depend on any real temperatures. Temperatures are false indicators.

[dalereed]

as I learned In the first day of statistics class 55 years ago:

This is a class in how to lie with figures and how to make figures lie and that the graph is your biggest liars aid/

The next sentence was: Anyone using the word statistics in this class will receive an “F”.

[Magallanes]

Interesting....since 2008 still has 2 weeks to go!