James Joyner says this morning:
Anthony Watts as generated a huge amount of blogospheric attention with his report on Steve McIntyre’s recalculation of temperature trends. It turns out that the Y2K bug skewed previous data from this decade.
Four of the top 10 years of US CONUS high temperature deviations are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.
James goes on to relate how it’s a little beyond his expertise. Frankly, I think it’s beyond the expertise of most people talking about it. However, James goes on to point out that Watts suggests that the effect on U.S. global warming propaganda machines could be huge.
The fact is, just about any fact that questions the global warming scenario, pokes some very serious holes in that whole propaganda machine. Which, of course, is why the global warming hucksters cannot brook any questioning of their mantra.
One could logically ask if the global warming scare wasn’t being created by an overheating Pentium floating point unit. Certainly, warming on a somewhat smaller scale.
Q&O notes this story, also declaring it …
…another reason that a good dose of skepticism should be maintained when anyone declares the ‘science of global warming is settled’.
Indeed, there already were many such. Not least of which was the people pushing the mantra.
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