Throwing Cold Water On Global Warming Science

It would seem that catastrophic global warming predictions will have to wait at least another month. Last Monday, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), announced that October had been the hottest month ever globally on record. The problem is no one explained that to Mother Nature – snow storms and record low temperatures had been reported from the Great Plains to Europe to China all during the month of October.

Oops, one teensy problem – the data comprising the readings were wrong. It seems the data computer models used for large portions of Russia, which had indicated readings of up to 10 degrees higher than normal, were not based off of October temperatures at all, but rather the previous month’s totals carried forward (what we in the data business call “smoothing”). Savvy bloggers caught the glaring error and reported it, much to the chagrin of the GISS.

In an effort to cover its tracks, GISS produced revised figures claiming to reveal a new Arctic “hotspot” – the trouble is is that last month satellite images captured Arctic sea ice recovering at rates of up to 30% of previous year levels. Strike two. GISS then explained that the data they received to reveal the Russian anomaly was produced by another party, and the GISS did not have adequate resources to check the quality of its data or the resulting work. Well isn’t that special?

Keep in mind, this is the same GISS that Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has so heavily relied upon and quoted over the years to back his dire global warming prognostications. And when people dare to question the data behind the analyses – why, they’re nothing more than global warming deniers.

After all, this is settled science – right?