Did we just survive the warmest October ever?
Not exactly. NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISSTemp), which has become the semi-private playground of Climate Change Panicmonger James Hansen, reported half a continent worth of temperatures wrong. A bunch of reporting stations in Russia and Siberia used the same temperatures for October as they had recorded in September, which of course made October look a lot warmer than it actually was (since October in Russia is a bit different than September, as Napoleon could tell you). No one at GISS noticed the giant red heat spot over Siberia, or if they noticed it, they didn’t think it was worth investigating further.
It is odd to me that the GISS folks were not more curious about an anomaly that big, especially since there have been no news stories at all about the snow-free Alaskan tundra. You’d figure that if global warming were making such a huge comeback after being gone for the past ten years, someone would have noticed. I mean, Hansen spends all that time yelling about it. I would have thought that someone who’s heard his rants a time or ten might have noticed the return of his boss’ big bugaboo.
Tags: Climate Change, James Hansen, NASA
