October Was The Hottest Month On Record

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Interesting readhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jh...1/16/do1610.xmlA 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. A sudden cold snap brought snow to London in October 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.So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

[El Guapo 8]

Mid nov and I was in shorts and t-shirt today driving w/ windows down.

[CaneBrain 95]

Mid nov and I was in shorts and t-shirt today driving w/ windows down.

We finally had a day under 85 in Miami. Winter might finally be here. Lovely football weather.Tracking global warming month to month is silly.

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We finally had a day under 85 in Miami. Winter might finally be here. Lovely football weather.Tracking global warming month to month is silly.

Especially during a cooling period, like we're in.

[CaneBrain 95]

Especially during a cooling period, like we're in.

please tell said cooling period to come to Miami. thank you.

[copernicus 0]

please tell said cooling period to come to Miami. thank you.

Pay Al Gore enough and Im sure hell find a way to at least make you think it came to Miami.

[CaneBrain 95]

Pay Al Gore enough and Im sure hell find a way to at least make you think it came to Miami.

I'd sooner believe he could catch manbearpig.

[copernicus 0]

I'd sooner believe he could catch manbearpig.

I thought he is manbearpig?

[CaneBrain 95]

I thought he is manbearpig?

that......explains everything.

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Hee Hee. And the predictive models are calibrated too. Oops wait a minute........ Calling all the GW debate crowd - its back on again! Funny how it took a backseat when people became more worried about what is really important - little things like having a job and being able to put food on the family table.

[checkymcfold 0]

all i learned from the OP and link was that people don't understand how statistics works.

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I think we should be more worried about the prolonged sunspot minimum than global warming.- TR