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       The climate may or may not be heating up, but the debate sure is

> NASA (National Air and Space Administration) has now silently released
> corrected figures [1], and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest
> year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-
> breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10
> warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts
> has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary [2]
> of the events.
>

Via Flut terby [3], “Blogger Finds Y2K (2000 Anno Domini) Bug in NASA Climate
Data [4]”

If the article isn't enough to show we still don't know enough about the
weather to make dire predictions, then the scores of comments should be
enough, with both sides debating the various arguments (“Greenland is
melting!” “But it's also revealing large Viking settlements showing it was
warmer a millenium ago!”).

[1] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt
[2] http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_y
[3] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/10324.html#artid_34701
[4] http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/art

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