Hottest year on record, GLOBALLY. Which is it? Here is a link by one of our deniers in a previous post. In the link it clearly states 1934 was the warmest year on record for the UNITED STATES.

%26quot;climatologists at the Goddard Institute of Space Science in New York now accept that 1934 was historically the United States%26#039; hottest year since records began%26quot; (August 16, 2007)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...

But, here is what NASA GISS shows, straight from their website, with 1934 and 1998 tied for the warmest UNITED STATES temps on record (January 11, 2008)

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

Since this is the GLOBAL Warming section, why do they (deniers)insist on showing US records?

Here is the NASA GISS website, plain as day. Nowhere does it show 1934 as the warmest year on record GLOBALLY.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

NOAA, same thing...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/rese...

HadCRUT, again it%26#039;s the same thing...

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temper...

Is this deception on the deniers part? The data is right there if you open your eyes!

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EDIT to James:

%26quot;Contrary to some statements flying around the internet, there is no effect on the rankings of global temperature. Also our prior analysis had 1934 as the warmest year in the U.S. (see the 2001 paper above), and it continues to be the warmest year, both before and after the correction to post 2000 temperatures. However, as we note in that paper, the 1934 and 1998 temperature are practically the same, the difference being much smaller than the uncertainty%26quot;

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/update...
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Refere...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pr...

Oh and by the way, the satellites also have it as 1998.

http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_descrip...
http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2008/0...

I agree that claiming 1934 is the hottest year is probably a case of confirmation bias. It combines the no warming myth with the conspiracy theory myth. People want to believe it, so they neglect the rather critical bit of information that this was a correction of US data which had an absolutely miniscule impact on global temperature data.


I don%26#039;t expect you to read the text, just look at the graphs and see what an enormous difference it makes when you show the y axis in degrees instead of tenths of a degree.

All of a sudden, when you are not down in the weeds, things today don%26#039;t look so much different than in the past. Not enough to persuade anyone to go back to simpler times, living in huts, starving to death, and watching their children die before age five.

Richard it is also been noted that NASA has not yet corrected the other international records as yet because they are so badly corrupted with errors it will take possibly years to make them accurate. Somebody spent a lot of time messing up those data files in order to be able to use them to promote global warming. Now it took NASA almost a year to correct the US records alone, how long do you think it is going to take to research and correct those fr the rest of the world. As they fix them they will post the correction just as they did with the US ones.


Dana and the other agencies per usual will trail NASA by years as the truth conflicts with their politics.

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