Major climate-alarmist fiasco at NASA

November 25, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

Telegraph.co.uk

The world has never seen such freezing heat

By Christopher Booker
2008 11 16

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years….(Full Story)
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Comment by folc.ca: NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) committed such a serious blunder with erroneous reporting of the global average temperatures during this year’s October that it boggles the mind.

It is inconceivable how GISS can possibly recover any credibility at all.  GISS used fake-data, for two months running, data that showed increases in global temperatures, while across the world the evidence was to the contrary.

This story did not make the front pages. You better read it, so that you know to what extremes global alarmists will go to try to bamboozle us.

Steven McIntyre, someone who rides herd — and a good thing too — on the quality of NASA’s propagandist or quite plainly sloppy surface temperature record data (inherently flawed and prone to a large number of serious human errors), has this to say:

Let’s consider the opposite situation. Suppose that March temperatures had been inadvertently carried forward into April, yielding a massive cold anomaly in Russia. One feels that Hansen would have been all over the opposite error like a dog on a bone - he would have been his own bulldog.

In any event, we here at Climate Audit are always eager to assist NASA. On earlier occasions, we helped identify the lost city of Wellington, New Zealand, where NASA has been unable to locate climate records for nearly 30 years.

Today, we are able to provide NASA with up-to-date weather reports confirming that October in Russia is colder than September. Verhojansk temperatures are conveniently online here and temperatures are currently a nippy -18 deg C….(Full Story)

The satellite temperature record showed nothing out of the ordinary for this year’s month of October.  You would think that NASA would use that data instead of something that they either have no control over or that they willingly accept as the truth, whether reasonable or not, and even though the methods for collecting those data are outdated by about 150 years or more.  So, why doesn’t NASA promote the truth?  Why dosn’t the mainstream media report on a story of major importance that is already a month old?

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