Great artice. The thing is, the US tempeature is not terribly relevant to GLOBAL warming, is it? Just as the chart of Canadian mean temperature or the chart of Sri Lankan mean temperature are also meaningless.
Please examine the chart sof GLOBAL mean temperature on the NASA website. Link provi
Mr. Steyn -- you're smarter than this.
global mean temperatures below. Can you say "hockey stick"?
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global warming is something which is occuring in the planet earth although many people reject this. i personly did not... [MORE]
Adongo
Nov 6, 2007 15:47
The worst part of this GW issue is that the so called scientist in many cases have not disclosed their... [MORE]
charlesH
Aug 16, 2007 13:39
The mistake NASA made is significant, and unfortunate. However, even once the errors are taken into account, it doesn't change... [MORE]
Empathetics
Aug 14, 2007 00:07
"Aside from any facts or whatnot, can anyone explain what opposition to the Iraq war has to do with this... [MORE]
Fire LT
Aug 15, 2007 17:30
I'm not saying it's not there, but if it is, they're making it damned hard to find. Yet a quick... [MORE]
Duncan Valliere
Aug 13, 2007 18:25
now i hope Christy and Spencer will take the revised data and match it up with their satelite data and... [MORE]
doug kemp
Aug 13, 2007 15:23
Could NASA be as incompetent as it appears or was this politics?
Seems like NASA is it's own worst enemy... incompetent... [MORE]
N. Khan
Aug 13, 2007 14:52
Great artice. The thing is, the US tempeature is not terribly relevant to GLOBAL warming, is it? Just as the...
Brad
Aug 13, 2007 13:48
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Brian Wesbury wrote a nice piece for the Wall Street Journal yesterday. In
It, he pointed out that while the overwhelming... [MORE]
Genecis
Aug 13, 2007 11:31
The first requirement of any theory is that it accounts for all the facts. The theory of global warming caused... [MORE]
David Willig
Aug 13, 2007 09:29
That's great news Mark. Your article really convinced me that we're not doing any damage to our environment and that... [MORE]
andrew
Aug 13, 2007 09:07
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, when the logic or data used to support a theory turns out... [MORE]
Darren
Aug 13, 2007 20:31
Andrew, can you not see that when data (or stories as told by Beauchamp) are proven to be false, that... [MORE]
Rod
Aug 16, 2007 21:55
Can anyone point me to the NASA data set that Mark Steyn refers to in this piece? Can't seem to... [MORE]
Rob Simonds
Aug 13, 2007 08:26
Try this link: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt. It came from the Wall Street Journal (specifically OpinionJournal.com). [MORE]
Stevie G.
Aug 13, 2007 12:46
NASA doesn't publish their GISS database. It's for insiders only. [MORE]
rwilymz
Aug 13, 2007 14:18
Rob Simonds go to http:/icecap.us/images/uploads/New_Rankings.pdf.
I also searched Steve McIntyre and had many responses and many people who say they are... [MORE]
Tony
Aug 13, 2007 14:50
But as Winston Churchill said of the legend of King Arthur: "Its true, or it should be". People want so... [MORE]