Scott R. Sullivan

July 8th, 2008 by Scott

First the news:

NASA scientist James Hansen’s famous claims about 1998 being the warmest year on record in the U.S. was the result of a serious math error, according to H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). NASA has now corrected the error, anointing 1934 as the warmest year and 1921 as the third warmest year, not 2006 as previously claimed.

NASA’s ground based temperature records for the past 120 years, which have been the basis for most of the claims that global warming is happening at an unprecedented rate, almost entirely due to human actions, have now been corrected to show that much of the warming occurred before CO2 emissions and concentrations began to rise significantly.

According to NASA’s newly published data:
— The hottest year on record is 1934, not 1998;
— The third hottest year on record was 1921, not 2006;
— Three of the five hottest years on record occurred before 1940; and
— Six of the top 10 hottest years occurred before 90 percent of the growth in greenhouse
gas emissions during the last century occurred.
(Source)

So can we now, officially, wrap up the “global warming” nonsense?