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NASA Blocked Climate Change Blogger from Data

Despite the fact that NASA tried to block him from accessing U.S. temperature data, persistent efforts by a climate change blogger forced the government to amend U.S. temperature data.

Because of the blogger’s efforts, NASA now recognizes 1934 as the hottest year in U.S. history, not 1998.

Now, the ten hottest years on record in the U.S., beginning with the hottest year, are: 1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938 and 1939.

I blogged about this on my site (Is It Getting Warmer?) as well. A few points that I think are relevant:

It appears that it was an honest mistake.I don’t think we should make a big deal about honest mistakes. More importantly, I think it is critical that scientists own up to these mistakes as soon as possible.He who is perfect should throw the first stone…

It really doesn’t matter much. So now 1998 is second. So what? It was so close to first that it was a virtual tie.

I have real problems with any calculations that show the average temperature of the globe anyway since:
a) there are not enough measurement points to be statistically significant.
b)the method of acquiring the temperatures is suspect (especially older than 25-50 years ago).
c)the method of calculating these averages does not appear to be thermodynamically correct and mathematically accurate.

It was warm in 1934 in certain parts of the globe and it was warm in 1998 in certain parts of the globe - that is all that is clear.

You can read my full thoughts on this at http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2007/08/17/1998-was-not-the-warmest/

NASA Blocked Climate Change Blogger from Data

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