Posted on 11/17/2008 1:34:16 PM PST by knighthawk
Last week, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies – one of four agencies responsible for monitoring the global temperatures used by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – released its statistics for October. According to the GISS figures, last month was the warmest October on record around the world.
This struck some observers as odd. There had been no reports of autumn heat waves in the international press and there is almost always blanket coverage of any unusually warm weather since it fits into the widespread media bias that climate catastrophe lies just ahead. In fact, quite the opposite had occurred; there had been plenty of stories about unseasonably cool weather.
London had experienced its first October snow in 70 years. Chicago and the Great Plains states had broken several lowest-temperature records, some of which had stood for 120 years. Tibet had broken snowfall records. Glaciers in Alaska, the Alps and New Zealand had begun advancing. Sea ice expanded so rapidly it covered 30% more of Arctic than at the end of October 2007. (Of course, you saw few stories about that, too, since interest in the Arctic ice cover is reserved only for when its melting reinforces hysteria over global warming and polar bear extinction).
So the GISS claim that October was the warmest ever seemed counterintuitive, to say the least.
Thanks, though, to Steve McIntyre, the Toronto computer analyst who maintains the blog climateaudit.org, and Anthony Watts, the American meteorologist who runs wattsupwiththat.com, we did not have to wait long to find out the cause of the GISS’s startling statistics: Data-entry error.
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
Ping
They get HIGH with a little help from their friends..............
Piling baloney on top of baloney.
Those of us who practice REAl (e.g., not climate) science have always been trained to closely examine the data before drawing conclusions.
The analysis was “Obama class”. By that I mean, juvenile - with little or no ability to analyze.
Is it likely? So it's absolutely within the top 12? Or within the top fifteen? Out of how many years of data? 8 years? And is that with the corrected data, or is that with the corrupted data, as after all, once spread, such hysteria is almost impossible to retract and will be in global hysteria literature, documents and government reports for decades.
Meanwhile, here in Ohio, this morning, more than a week before Thanksgiving...I had to brush off an inch of snow off my steps and car, before I could go to the store.
The Dims are such stupid, gullible and self decivilizing animals.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/snow+hits+south+africa/2467777
Greetings to Ohio, and in Sydney - a city in the sub-tropics, we head into summer. But I am still wearing my winter nightie, it is so chilly. It was the coldest Oct in decades. In London, they had Oct snow for the first time in many years, and the parliament had difficulty meeting, because of the snowbound streets, and it was for a debate on a bill to combat global warming.
This Oct is the fourth coldest on record, that is, since 1903
Looks like a “Fudge Packer.”
Looks like he’s in prison.
Oh sure, but as the brilliant Phantom55 at nationalpost.com site pointed out - it is still indisputably, and by far, the warmest October THIS YEAR! Can anyone deny that we are likewise on track for the warmest November this year as well. That will make eleven months in a row!
Don't tell me there no such thing as Global Warming.
This idiot at GISS gives junk science a bad name. First the submits a report which totally lacks attention to detail and when he goes back and admits his mistake, he figures out a way to take a different faulty path to the same conclusion. I’m sure there’ll be an extra kicker in this Christmas bonus this year. As they say, “The best science that money can buy.”
I read on FR that NASA came clean and admitted that the figures from Russia were bad and that the hottest period was in the 1930s. Does anyone have a cite for the NASA admission? If the 1930s were the hottest years on record, then there goes global warming down the drain.
Fourth coldest in the USA or the world? Cite?
The record high temperature for today is 41. That happened in 1916.
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