The world has never seen such freezing heat
Christopher Booker at The Telegraph - a mistake in temperature reporting from Russia caused the Human-induced-global-warming noise to become even more shrill. Until some "sceptics" discovered that September readings had been re-reported as October readings, making it appear that October had been 10 degress warmer than normal. Short article. Huge number of comments. I only read the first few pages, but many of the comments were quite good. [gsc]
If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)
Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s.
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