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Najordef posted this in OOT, thought it was relavent.
http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/200...ttest_yea.html
'He finally publishes it here, stating that NASA made a correction not only on their own web page, attributing the discovery to McIntyre, but NASA also issued a corrected set of temperature anomaly data which you can see here:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt
Steve McIntyre posted this data from NASA's newly published data set from Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) These numbers represent deviation from the mean temperature calculated from temperature measurement stations throughout the USA.
According to the new data published by NASA, 1998 is no longer the hottest year ever. 1934 is.
Four of the top 10 years of US CONUS high temperature deviations are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (199
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What I've learned in these debates regarding this topic is one has to have a "score card" if you will on who's a tool for whom. Without doing much research I'm sure that somehow Steve McIntyre will be accused of being a tool for the oil companies. Wiki about Steve McIntyre FWIW:
Steve McIntyre
My friend wacki should be able to tell us for sure. If wacki is reading this, what about William Gray the hurricane prognisticator?
Edit: I may have posted a link to McIntyre's articles in other threads. Obviously if I did he didn't make much of an impression on me.