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James Hansen's Hacks

Turns out eight of the hottest ten years in U.S. have not occurred since 1995 -- but NASA's Goddard Institute doesn't seem to want anyone to know it's had to correct its statistics.

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McIntyre's latest debunking was the discovery of an error in GISS records for the years 2000 through 2006. In simplest terms, they hadn't been adjusted to compensate for the location or time of day where the data was gathered.

But nobody correlated those newer figures with the older ones until McIntyre did, even though later Hansen admitted it was "easy to fix." McIntyre published the data on his own website (which is currently down because it's overloaded with traffic) and got the agency to admit it was wrong and post new figures. It even sent him a thank you note.

Yet the GISS did absolutely nothing to alert scientists or the public to the new figures. This though it has publishedfive global warming press releases so far this year, each one alarming. It took the blogosphere and radio talk show hosts to publicize the new figures even as the mainstream media essentially ignored it. (The Washington Post finally ran an article a week after the controversy began, siding with the GISS and describing McIntyre as nothing more than a "blogger." All the presidential candidates have blog sites, but somehow the Post refrains from tagging them as bloggers.)

Ultimately the greatest importance of all of this is that it strongly appears to substantiate the intuitive belief that, with scientist-politician Hansen at the helm the GISS, whose data are far more important to modeling global temperatures than it lets on, is not a neutral collector and disseminator of statistics but rather a politicized mouthpiece.

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topics:
Mainstream Media, Global Warming, NATO, Energy

About the Author

Michael Fumento is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and a nationally syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service.

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Pingback| 7.15.09 @ 8:39AM

Dirty Democrats » Sad. Bill O’Reilly Embraces Global Warming Hoax…Quotes Disputed Jun links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Spin Factor: As for Bill O’Reilly’s claim that since 2001 we have witnessed ‘7 of the hottest years ever recorded’ is flat out wrong. This data was refuted first in late 2007. The American Spectator reported on the faulty data back in late 2007: The real 15 hottest years are spread over seven decades. Eight occurred before the chief ‘greenhouse gas,’ atmospheric carbon dioxide, began…

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