So much for global warming A number of reputable scientists also immediately cast doubt on the federal government’s declaration Friday. “Using the normal rules of science, is 58.46 degrees then distinguishable from 58.45 degrees? In a word, ‘No,’” wrote Patrick J. Michaels on the Cato Institute website. His assessment was cited on Marc Morano’s Climate Depot website, which routinely debunks claims of global warming. Climatologist Roy Spencer is quoted there: “We are arguing over the significance of a hundredths of a degree.” And physicist Lubos Motl: “Please laugh out loud when someone will be telling you that it was the warmest year.” Even acceptance of the federal reports, climatologist Judith Curry pointed out at Climate Depot, further undermines the the Earth is warming. “With 2014 essentially tied with 2005 and 2010 for hottest year, this implies that there has been essentially no trend in warming over the past decade,” Curry said. Morano explained: “There are dueling global datasets – surface temperature records and satellite records – and they disagree. The satellites show an 18 year plus global warming ‘standstill’ and the satellite was set up to be ‘more accurate’ than the surface records.” He argued any temperature claim of “hottest year” based on surface data is based on hundredths of a degree hotter than previous “hottest years.” “This immeasurable difference is not even within the margin of error of temperature gauges. The claim of the ‘hottest year’ is simply a political statement not based on temperature facts.”
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