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Oil on troubled waters

December 15, 2008 - 8:30 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-12-15 20:52:42

“The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration.”

This is wrong. Data analysis by Dr. James Hansen of NASA had a date handling error in calculating a time span across year 2000 – Yet another kind of Y2K bug.

This was pointed out to Dr. Hansen by a Canadian statistician, Steven McIntyre. Dr. Hansen has corrected that error and the data shows a flat temperature for the last ten years with a decline recently. The corrected data is on Nasa’s website but, you are going to have to dig to find it.

AP should know better than to pull this crap.