Scott wrote:
Lloyd Parker wrote:
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Scott wrote:
Thomas.Palm wrote:
"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 Niņo of the Century year - and El Niņos always make it
hotter. If this had been an El Niņo 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.
Acually, it wasn't advertised at all, a rumor on
the usenet from BBC, a missing GISTEMP webpage.
Nothing at all in the media except now the ABC thing.
Hansen already made his statement on the Trib :
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/...n/edhansen.php
You heard about it here first.
http://cosmic.lifeform.org