http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html#comments
Apparently an error has been discovered in the way NASA calculates US temperatures, and they've had to recalibrate their temperature data for the last 120 years.
According to the old data, 4 of the 10 hottest years on record occurred during the past ten years. That number has now fallen to 3 with the new corrections, while the 1930s now has 4 top-ten years.
NASA has acknowledged the error (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/) and has posted corrected data (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt).
What do you think? Any significance behind this? What will this mean to Global Warming -- perhaps the debate isn't actually over yet?
Apparently an error has been discovered in the way NASA calculates US temperatures, and they've had to recalibrate their temperature data for the last 120 years.
According to the old data, 4 of the 10 hottest years on record occurred during the past ten years. That number has now fallen to 3 with the new corrections, while the 1930s now has 4 top-ten years.
NASA has acknowledged the error (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/) and has posted corrected data (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt).
What do you think? Any significance behind this? What will this mean to Global Warming -- perhaps the debate isn't actually over yet?