More inconvenient truths

A Y2K bug has been found in NASA's climate data, sling shotting 1934 to the top of the charts as the hottest year on record in the United States. Political activist/climatologist James Hansen:"(The same James Hansen that accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him for his stance on greenhouse gas emissions.)": was forced to revise his data once the bug was identified by Steve McIntyre of climateaudit.org. DailyTech reports that "1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II."

So much for Al Gore's oft-repeated quip from 1992: "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." I'm left to wonder along with the folks over at Hot Air, "Can we at least get some peer review before we build the ark?" If this is the sort of "science" that's being done, I might finally be able to agree with the statement that global warming is cause by humans. That is, by their calculators and not their cars.

Of course, this little statistical setback won't be enough to keep the global warming zealots from continuing to proselytize the known universe for the sake of their sanctimonious cause. They will keep flying around in private jets and driving SUV's to events where they chastise the Cretans who are killing our environment by flying around in jets and driving SUV's. They will continue to warn us that the world's most impoverished populations stand to be wiped out by global warming, so we must immediately implement government programs that will guarantee that the world's most impoverished populations will always be impoverished. Remember, people… if we're going to do something about climate change, it's all gotta start with some really serious (though completely ineffective) symbolic actions and highly charged rhetoric. Think of the children!

I think Instapundit sums it up best: "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."