[ConservativeMind]

You might want to update your #4.

The NASA numbers that showed 1998 was the hottest year were wrong.

I believe it is now considered tied with a 1930’s year.

Not to start something, but do you, in the end, propose that global warming is man-made? Your profile dances around that issues rather well. ;-)

[cogitator]

The NASA numbers that showed 1998 was the hottest year were wrong.

No update needed. You're one of an innumerable many, probably misled by bad information present in the blogosphere, which confused the global numbers with the U.S. numbers. 1998 was, by far, the warmest year globally in the temperature record. The NASA changes affected the U.S. temperature record and barely nudged the global temperature record. Point #4 is correct because it is about the global temperature record.

Not to start something, but do you, in the end, propose that global warming is man-made?

See this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886643/posts?page=57#57

and realize that it's impossible for me or anyone to refute the basic physics of Earth's radiative balance.

[mc5cents]

I believe it is now considered tied with a 1930’s year.

You are correct. The year was 1934 and perhaps not so coincidently the worst hurricane, i.e. the one with the lowest barometric pressure, was the so-called Florida Keys hurricane of 1935.