Or is it a religion afterall?
How many global newservices picked up the stargling "record warm October" story? How many will print the retraction??? - HLG
One of the Global Warming Movement's Most Prominent Sources of Information Makes a Huge Blunder
Monday, November 17, 2008
In Hot Water
Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies — one of the four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures used by the United Nations — announced last month was the hottest October on record. That was because the institute's maps showed a 10-degree increase across parts of Russia.
But Christopher Booker at the Telegraph newspaper writes that when some climate change skeptics took a closer look at the numbers "they made an astonishing discovery."
He says the blogs Watts Up With That? and Climate Audit found "figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running."
That means October's supposedly record-breaking temperatures were in fact recorded in September and the institute promptly revised the figures. A spokesman says the error occurred because the Russian figures were obtained from an outside source. He said the Goddard Institute does not have the resources to exercise proper quality control over the data.
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I saw these articles last week - and finally in a prominent newspaper - the UK Telegraph - yesterday. What surprised me is that I didn't remember seeing any pronouncement from NASA regarding a "Hottest October on Record." So I searched NASA's "pronouncement" and found that they never made such a statement.
That hasn't stopped bloggers, and now newspapers, from picking up on the fake headline. Certainly makes me wonder why the anti-warming community feels the need to be so over-reactive...
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