Do you think 1934 was the hottest recent year on Earth?

Question

If so, can you tell me where you got this information? Several people have linked the right-wing Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063

I thought at least the Times fact checked its information. Apparently not.

Here is the data correction in question:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

"Contiguous 48 U.S. Surface Air Temperature Anomaly"

Notice the key words: "Contiguous 48 U.S....Temperature Anomaly"

This was not a global temperature correction, it was a small lower-48 states correction. On top of that, it does not show that 1934 was the hottest year even in the US. It shows that 1934 was the hottest year in the US in comparison to the surrounding 30 year average (that's where the "anomaly" comes in). The 30 years around 1934 were much colder than recent years, so in reality 1934 wasn't even a warm year

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/

Can conservatives get the facts straight please?

Just this once please. I'm so tired of having to correct conservative global warming deniers. They never get the facts right.

Ken - last time I checked, NASA is not a university. What are you smoking?

Enjoy the thumbs-down Ken. You earned it. Wish I could give you a few more.

Answer 1

If these charts are correct it wasn't.

http://www.mongabay.com/images/external/2005/2005-11-27_tempA.jpg

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends_in_global_temperatures.jpg

http://www.tamug.edu/labb/images/Global%20Warming%20record.jpg

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect16/Climate3.JPG

http://www.theoildrum.com/uploads/12/sst_global.jpg

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/CR_data/Monthly/Hadplot_globe.gif

Answer 2

I've been steadily employed as a meteorologist since 1980. It would take me more time and effort than I'm willing to waste in order to set you on the right path here.

For instance, do you know what the acceptable margin of error for measuring temperature at an official observation station is? ... I'm talking about today, right now, not 100 years ago.

Answer 3

absolutely no clue! Probably because they hear it on talk radio, like that lame Mars argument. Noone N , there is a huge difference between healthy skepticism and denial. obviously he was referring to people that aren't merely skeptical, but absorbed by misinformation and use it to wrap themselves in denial.

Answer 4

Dude, why are you using links to newspapers to claim "Facts".
Do what I did. Pick 10 top Universities, go to their websites, and read the research.
Harvard and Yales had studies on both sides of the argument.
UCLA and Cal Berkeley, 2 shchools who jumped on the Band Wagon early, now say it is most Likely caused because of an overgrowth of moss, as the "Little Ice Age" the Earth went thru from about 1200 AD to About 1850 AD, was not severe emough to freeze over and kill all the Moss Growth from the prior 'Warm Age". Which started about 500 BC.
Quit using links and that crap. You have a computer, go to a bunch of University websites and you will find far more evidence of Natural Causes than you will Man Made.

Where di I say NASA was? Read an answer before you insult. Just because you are too lazy to do research, does not mean others aren't.

Answer 5

well I know the hottest temperature recorded was in Death Valley, CA and it was 134 degrees in the shade, during 1934.

Answer 6

Because THAT was the year Jean Harlow did a topless scene?


LOL

Answer 7

D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."



The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063

Sell Crazy somewhere else! Terror is REAL. Global warming is not!

Answer 8

I think we're just being sucked into the sun. Good luck trying to fix that global warming hacks.

Answer 9

You are dabbling into the depths of irrelevance. No one knows which was the hottest year on earth.

Answer 10

Whole lot of hot air blowing out of Germany??