Another Strike Against Global Warming

“Despite record snows and low temperatures around the world last month, a major Al Gore supporter says October was the hottest on record. The only thing being cooked here is not the Earth, but the books.” (“Cold, Hard Facts.” Investor’s Business Daily)

It’s interesting to watch the major panic that is setting in among global warming alarmists around the world. Not only do they refuse to admit that there has been no global warming since 1998—in spite of massive, legitimate scientific evidence substantiating this fact—now they are producing faulty temperature reports to bolster their faltering cause.

On November 10, 2008, Dr. James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the most extreme alarmists on the planet, claimed that October ’08 was the hottest on record and that we are all doomed. But within 24 hours, the Goddard organization was admitting error and reversed itself—in the face of a firestorm of scientific criticism.

It turns out that Goddard didn’t even do its own research and that another organization supplied it with data that was partially based on September temperature readings. When the correction was made, it turned out that another organization supplied it with data that was partially based on September temperature readings. When the correction was made, it turned out that October ’08 was the 77th hottest in the past hundred years.

This means it was actually one of the coolest Octobers since 1908—which also supports growing evidence that the Earth is now in a major cooling period that could last for 30 years.

How and why would Dr. Hansen and his institute put out such a clunker? The answer to “how” is that politics has now taken over the thinking of the scientist who are working at Goddard, so they never double-check any findings that support their cause. The answer to “why” is that Dr. Hansen is so far out on a limb with his outrageous and meritless claims of global warming that the truth no longer matters.

He and thousands of other scientist, politicians, bureaucrats, and media disciples are increasingly desperate in the face of the mounting evidence of global cooling.