The Hottest Year in the U.S.? 1934.
August 14, 2007 | filed in: Climate
Change
This is a big deal.
A gentleman named Steve McIntyre discovered that the methodology used by NASA to determine the temperature of each year in the U.S. was flawed. NASA, to its credit, corrected its methodology and released updated data. As a result, the hottest year on record is no longer 1998, but 1934. That's right, all this panic about global warming, and we still haven't beat the temperature set in 1934. Here are the warmest years on record:
1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938, 1939
Three out of the top five warmest years occurred prior to 1935. Six of the top ten occurred before 1954. If that doesn't give one pause about global warming hysteria, nothing will.
Here's a link to Mr. McIntyre's web page, although as of this writing, it's partially inoperative due to, apparently, denial-of-service attacks. Yup, some of the alarmists are so upset about the corrected data, it appears they attacked Mr. McIntyre's web site.
So, go to this page instead for a rundown of the new data. And beware of false prophets of doom.
A gentleman named Steve McIntyre discovered that the methodology used by NASA to determine the temperature of each year in the U.S. was flawed. NASA, to its credit, corrected its methodology and released updated data. As a result, the hottest year on record is no longer 1998, but 1934. That's right, all this panic about global warming, and we still haven't beat the temperature set in 1934. Here are the warmest years on record:
1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938, 1939
Three out of the top five warmest years occurred prior to 1935. Six of the top ten occurred before 1954. If that doesn't give one pause about global warming hysteria, nothing will.
Here's a link to Mr. McIntyre's web page, although as of this writing, it's partially inoperative due to, apparently, denial-of-service attacks. Yup, some of the alarmists are so upset about the corrected data, it appears they attacked Mr. McIntyre's web site.
So, go to this page instead for a rundown of the new data. And beware of false prophets of doom.