I've done some digging into the recent scandal over how GISS has quietly changed its data to reflect the fact that 1998 is no longer the warmest year on American record. However, thanks to the resources of the Wayback Machine of WebArchive, I've discovered that the 1998 data has not been quite so high for a while. This is the Wayback Machine archive of GISS's data page, home to the climate data that's been the subject of the recent controversy. Let's recall that the newly reevaluted figures are as follows:Contiguous 48 U.S. Surface Air Temperature Anomaly (C) ------------------------------------------------------ year Annual_Mean...