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Subject: "Sources" report AlGore was last seen sobbing uncontrollably.

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Curmudgeon

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Date Posted: 08:34:52 08/13/07 Mon
In reply to: Carbonicus 's message, "Bogus NASA U.S. Annual Temperature records exposed!!!" on 15:27:33 08/10/07 Fri

>Go ye forth and readeth the truth.
>
>I, Carbonicus, command thee!
>
>Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
>Michael Asher (Blog) - August 9, 2007 11:49 AM
>
>Years of bad data corrected; 1998 no longer the
>warmest year on record
>
>My earlier column this week detailed the work of a
>volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature
>data used for climate modeling. One of these people is
>Steve McIntyre, who operates the site
>climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical
>temperature graphs, he noticed a strange
>discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all
>occurring around the time of January, 2000.
>
>These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and
>James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the
>administration of trying to censor his views on
>climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre
>with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so
>McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared
>to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data.
>
>McKintyre notified the pair of the bug; Ruedy replied
>and acknowledged the problem as an "oversight" that
>would be fixed in the next data refresh.
>
>NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and
>the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on
>record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media
>as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes
>third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record
>now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has
>put the new data in chart form, along with a more
>detailed summary of the events.
>
>The effect of the correction on global temperatures is
>minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally
>thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming
>propaganda machine could be huge.
>
>Then again -- maybe not. I strongly suspect this story
>will receive little to no attention from the
>mainstream media.
>
> >src=http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/5625_Detroit_lak
>es_GISSplot.jpg>
>(an example of the the discontinuity exposed by the
>diligence of McIntyre, et. al.)
>
> >href="http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+Finds+Y2K+Bug+in
>+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm">http://www.dailytec
>h.com/Blogger+Finds+Y2K+Bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/articl
>e8383.htm

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Sobbing? Nah, fatcat Daddy Airbucks is too busy counting his profits from carbon emissions credits to cry.	carbonicus	11:20:33 08/13/07 Mon
You're probably right. What a scam!!! -- Curmudgeon, 07:38:03 08/14/07 Tue