NASA has revised their temperature database used in climate science downwards due to over-adjusted readings caused by a software bug. The result? Now 4 of the hottest years of this century are in the 1930’s! See Warren’s report here.This has huge implications for how people view warming trends amid the whole global warming scare. Things are not as bad as we’ve been told. Despite this, this good news will not be mentioned in any of the news outlets. In fact, I will make the bold prediction that most people will somehow see this as bad news. This is good, things are not as hot. With any luck, this will cause some reevaluations among the global warming community.
One thing that this case highlights is that most of this data is not available to public or peer review. Once again, a professional statistician has had to force an agency to admit that it’s numbers are all screwed up. he found this not by looking at their algorithms (which are not released) but by backward engineering them. This is the same guy who demolished the so called Mann’s hockey stick. There is an incredible lack of transparency with climatology and why it is tolerated I have no idea. There isn’t any other branch of scientific inquiry that tolerates the hiding of methods that seem to be standard practice in the global warming machine. I have never thought of it this way, but I am now seriously wondering if all of the money being funneled into hyping global warming is causing people to be really loose with their methods. That argument usually goes the other way with people claiming that oil companies bribe people into denying the global warming orthodoxy, but surely the side with the most money is the one to be suspected, no? It is estimated that the anti global warming (or more accurately the anti man made global warming) crowd is outspent by a factor of 50 by the proponents of the man made catastrophe theory. I’m starting to think that all that money is making people do some questionable things…