Global warming? Look at the numbers

It's been really hot lately -- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble is, it's no longer true.

Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- whose temperature records are a key component of the global-warming claim (and whose director, James Hansen, is a sort of godfather of global-warming alarmism) -- quietly corrected an error in its data set that had made recent temperatures seem warmer than they really were.

A little less than a decade ago, the U.S. government changed the way it recorded temperatures. No one thought to correlate the new temperatures with the old ones, though -- no one until Canadian researcher Steve McIntyre, that is.

Another blow to the CO2 craze. Throw this on the fire with items like CO2 increases happening 100s of years AFTER tempurature increases (Gore failed to mention), stranded polar bears, and the southern hemisphere's cooling trend. - DAVIN