Rumors of the Death of Arctic Sea Ice Greatly Exaggerated
Three days ago I sent a message to the PJM editorial department. Hopefully PJM will acknowledge the error or provide proof of the author’s claim.
Dear Editor,
The author makes the claim
“GISS has made serious errors before, including proclaiming 1998 the hottest year on record (they quietly corrected it to 1934 without announcing their error)”
As far as it is possible to prove a negative, “proclaiming 1998 the hottest year on record” is false, as shown by quotes prior to the identification of the error, from an AP report and from the then and
current director of GISS, Dr. James Hansen…
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/08/so_who_exactly_reported_that_n.php
Unless the author can provide a direct quotation from GISS “proclaiming 1998 the hottest year on record”, I request you issue a retraction.
Also…
GISS issued notice of the correction through their “Updates of Analysis” page, a standard procedure. The implication that GISS dishonestly hid the error is unfair.
The “Updates to Analysis” page is at…
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/updates/
… and the relevant notice is dated Aug. 7, 2007
Regards
