{"id":827,"date":"2008-11-19T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2008-11-19T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:57:49","slug":"noaa-says-october-hottest-on-record-%e2%80%93-oops-%e2%80%93-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/noaa-says-october-hottest-on-record-%e2%80%93-oops-%e2%80%93-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA says October hottest on record \u2013 Oops \u2013 Maybe not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this GISS image, incorrect data shows much of Russia under a heat wave in October.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scientists at NOAA and NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies<\/a> (GISS) announced last week that October global temperatures were the hottest on record.\u00a0 Naturally this caused quite a bit of hubbub and had the global warming alarmists in quite an uproar.\u00a0 As we wrote about previously<\/a>, the year has been cooler than normal in North America but this new data showed that Asia experienced record high temperatures last month.\u00a0 Word of the \u201chottest October on record\u201d quickly spread of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a bit of an embarrassment for NOAA and GISS, their claims were short lived when two blogger meteorologists went through the data and found a number of anomalies<\/a>.\u00a0 They discovered at least 10\u00a0Russian stations that oddly enough reported the exact same temperatures as September.\u00a0 Well, since October is almost always cooler than September in the northern hemisphere they did some checking and found that GISS had used the incorrect data and it influenced the calculations significantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Al Gore's infamous "hockey stick" graph that was used in An Inconvenient Truth was quickly debunked as were a number of other "facts" used in the movie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time \u201canomalies\u201d with data used to measure the earth\u2019s temperature have been discovered and have caused incorrect calculations.\u00a0 In other curious happenings, measuring stations have \u201cdisappeared\u201d from data only to reappear later, stations have been found to be sitting next to heaters and gas wells and more.\u00a0 Then of course there was Al Gore\u2019s infamous \u201chockey stick\u201d graph which was debunked soon after he began showing it.\u00a0 Perhaps in the most grievous error just last year, NOAA had to revise their published figures for U.S. surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as they had claimed, but the 1930s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When GISS and NOAA recalculated October\u2019s temperatures it dropped the month to the 2nd warmest on record<\/a> and that is significant.\u00a0 However, these types of problems serve only to fuel doubt in the minds of climate change skeptics and highlight the need for more careful analysis and a level-headed approach to studying the subject \u2013 from both sides of the discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information:\u00a0 NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists at NOAA and NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) announced last week that October global temperatures were the hottest on record.\u00a0 Naturally this caused quite a bit of hubbub and had the global warming alarmists in quite an uproar.\u00a0 As we wrote about previously, the year has been cooler than normal in North … Continue reading NOAA says October hottest on record \u2013 Oops \u2013 Maybe not<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,736,140,131,143,142,49,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}