16 August 2007

Amateur discovers 1934, not 1998, is hottest year

Before anyone gets too debunkingly excited about this discovery that in fact the USA's hottest summer on Record is in the 1930's not the 2000's, let's note the less glamorous aspects.
"The sum total of this change? A couple of hundredths of degrees in the US rankings and no change in anything that could be considered climatically important, specifically long-term trends."
He also noted that the error related only to figures from the US, covering just 2% of the Earth's surface, so could not be applied globally

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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

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