Inside Track
Was Last Year Really the Warmest on Record?
Global-warming alarmists and their media allies have been hyping recent statements from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) that “2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880.”
“If the warming trend continues, as is expected, if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the 2010 record will not stand for long,” said James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), in a January 12 press release. Hardly an impartial, objective scientist, Hansen is a fanatical activist who has been arrested repeatedly at demonstrations, regularly condemns the United States, and praises Communist China as “the best hope” to “lead the world through the most dangerous crisis that humanity and nature have ever faced.”
One of the biggest untold news stories in recent times concerns the admissions that the temperature data used by NOAA, NASA, Britain’s University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (UEA-CRU), and others in their apocalyptic scenarios are hopelessly corrupted and incapable of providing any meaningful input for policy decisions, especially decisions to impose radical, global CO2 regulations. In one of the many “Climategate” e-mails, for instance, Ian “Harry” Harris, the CRU programmer, lamented about the “hopeless state of their (CRU) database. No uniform data integrity, it’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found.” Harris again: “Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight. This whole project is SUCH A MESS. No wonder I needed therapy!!”
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