Global Warming Miscellany

Blame it all on those late-model SUVs--8,000 years late, that is.

Roseanne Roseannadanna, please call your office.

Last week, NASA corrected an error in its data of temperature records, apparently caused by a Y2K bug. Global warming alarmists are now enduring a fault line in their argument, and anti-warmers have another arrow in their quill.

The problem was discovered by Toronto-based Steve McIntyre, who runs the blog climateaudit.org. He found that the hottest year on record in the U.S. is 1934, not 1998 as NASA previously claimed. After making adjustments to NASA’s data, McIntyre concluded about the hottest years in the U.S.:

Four of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.

...NASA quickly made corrections when McIntyre pointed out the faulty data.

[Since it's such a major change to the accepted wisdom and therefore "fit to print", the NY Times will surely make the correction... any day now. Ed.]

Oh. That's very different. Never mind.
H/T: Global Warming Hysteria

Also a great thought-piece/ramble/rant on global warming from our friend, Halfwise:

Who is to say that warming is more important than any other widespread problem that we face? The answer to the 'who' questions keeps bringing me back to people who are against economic development on principle, who believe that the earth would be a better place if all these filthy people were not on it, and those who believe that their rules for how people should live trump any individual's preferences. The kind of people who would scratch a large SUV with a key to show their disapproval. There are legitimate environmental / public health issues which get little debate, and no publicity...

GW has become a religion. There are believers and non-believers, and the debate that we experience is a religious debate between fanatics and heretics.