Global Warming Test

[Bonestorm]

Not my point... it was your beloved fraudster Hansens point.... from the info you just posted...

But why did you post it, supersize it, bold it and underline it? I don't quite understand. I think you are intelligent enough to understand the relevance of what you quoting but you seem to truly believe that it undermines the conclusion that 2009 was the second warmest year on record.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Uh, what seems to be your point?

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/15/science/sci-temp15

The brouhaha was triggered Aug. 4 when Steve McIntyre of the blog Climateaudit.org e-mailed NASA scientists pointing out an unusual jump in temperature data from 1999 to 2000.

When researchers checked, they found that the agency had merged two data sets that had been incorrectly assumed to match.

When the data were corrected, it resulted in a decrease of 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit in yearly temperatures since 2000 and a smaller decrease in earlier years.

That meant that 1998, which had been 0.02 degrees warmer than 1934, was now 0.04 degrees cooler.

Schmidt said that researchers had always known that the difference between 1934 and 1998 was so small, it was virtually impossible to rank them.

With the new rankings, four of the 10 warmest years in the United States occurred during the 1930s.

"But in big-picture terms, the adjustments didn't change anything for global warming or climate change issues," Schmidt said. "The changes were pretty negligible."