Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:35:38 PM
Point Of Skew
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=2716382...
Posted 8/10/2007
Climate Change: 1998 was a year to remember for the global warming alarmists. The hottest on record, they'd say, proof that man-made emissions were helping scorch the planet. So how do they explain 1934?
NASA has silently, according to dailytech.com, revised its temperature figures, this time without the apparent Y2K bug that skewed the data. As it turns out, 1934, not 1998, is the hottest year in the continental U.S. since 1880.
The new numbers also show that four of the country's 10 warmest years were in the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939. Five of the hottest 10 occurred before World War II. The past 10 years are not as well represented: Only three years from the past decade are among the 10 warmest: 1998, 1999 and 2006.
None of this is good news for the global warming faithful, who argue that the burning of fossil fuel is warming the planet because the carbon dioxide emissions are creating a greenhouse effect. Because man's CO2 emissions in the hot 1930s are nowhere as large as they have been in the past 10 years, their theory doesn't hold up well.
We're on the record as being skeptical of the notion that there is a measurable "global temperature" and the same could be said for a "national temperature." So this news doesn't mean that much to us.
But the alarmists have staked their faith on the numbers and use them to hector everyone about our habit of burning oil. Now they have to live with the new numbers.
They also have to live with the fact that global warming alarmist in chief, James Hansen of NASA, seemed willing to let the flawed data continue to be considered accurate. Steve McIntyre of climateaudit.org asked Hansen for the algorithm he used to create the chart that allegedly proves the warming theory after McIntyre had noted odd spikes on the graph. But Hansen refused.
McIntyre, by the way, along with environmental economist Ross McKitrick, found serious statistical errors in the famous "hockey stick" chart of global temperatures that is supposed to be further evidence that the world is warming.
Eventually, Hansen's NASA colleague who helped him create the chart admitted there was a problem. The data were corrected.
The parting clouds at NASA reveal a valid lesson. Maybe Al Gore will learn something, correct his mistake and call off the whole global warming movement. Unlikely, though. Once an ego is fixated to the point of meltdown on saving the planet, there's no cooling off.
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=2716382...
Posted 8/10/2007
Climate Change: 1998 was a year to remember for the global warming alarmists. The hottest on record, they'd say, proof that man-made emissions were helping scorch the planet. So how do they explain 1934?
NASA has silently, according to dailytech.com, revised its temperature figures, this time without the apparent Y2K bug that skewed the data. As it turns out, 1934, not 1998, is the hottest year in the continental U.S. since 1880.
The new numbers also show that four of the country's 10 warmest years were in the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939. Five of the hottest 10 occurred before World War II. The past 10 years are not as well represented: Only three years from the past decade are among the 10 warmest: 1998, 1999 and 2006.
None of this is good news for the global warming faithful, who argue that the burning of fossil fuel is warming the planet because the carbon dioxide emissions are creating a greenhouse effect. Because man's CO2 emissions in the hot 1930s are nowhere as large as they have been in the past 10 years, their theory doesn't hold up well.
We're on the record as being skeptical of the notion that there is a measurable "global temperature" and the same could be said for a "national temperature." So this news doesn't mean that much to us.
But the alarmists have staked their faith on the numbers and use them to hector everyone about our habit of burning oil. Now they have to live with the new numbers.
They also have to live with the fact that global warming alarmist in chief, James Hansen of NASA, seemed willing to let the flawed data continue to be considered accurate. Steve McIntyre of climateaudit.org asked Hansen for the algorithm he used to create the chart that allegedly proves the warming theory after McIntyre had noted odd spikes on the graph. But Hansen refused.
McIntyre, by the way, along with environmental economist Ross McKitrick, found serious statistical errors in the famous "hockey stick" chart of global temperatures that is supposed to be further evidence that the world is warming.
Eventually, Hansen's NASA colleague who helped him create the chart admitted there was a problem. The data were corrected.
The parting clouds at NASA reveal a valid lesson. Maybe Al Gore will learn something, correct his mistake and call off the whole global warming movement. Unlikely, though. Once an ego is fixated to the point of meltdown on saving the planet, there's no cooling off.
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