Lloyd Parker wrote:
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"Roger Coppock" wrote in news:1134663656.088861.112730
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Scientists Sound Warning on Global Warming
Why Santa May Soon Need a Boat -- But It's No Joke

By BILL BLAKEMORE

Dec. 15, 2005 -- NASA has just announced that for the fourth year in a
row, it has recorded the hottest annual global temperatures since
reliable records started in the late 1800s.

This year, 2005, tied for the hottest year ever with 1998 - and 1998
was "an El Niño of the Century year - and El Niños always make it
hotter. If this had been an El Niño year, it would surely have been
the hottest year of all," Dr. James Hansen, NASA earth sciences
director, told ABC News.


How can there be a tie before the game is even over? There is still half a
month left of 2005.


It does make you wonder how a year is defined in the study

scott


I imagine the data is such that even if Dec. is not the warmest, the year will
still be.

I don't doubt it. But putting out a press release before
the end of the year, without acknowledging that there's
still data to add is just silly.

Note that I'm assuming it wasn't in the press release.
Maybe it was and the reporter didn't report it, or
the editor snipped it. Either way, bad reporting.

scott