According to "The Numbers Guy" at the Wall Street Journal, the flap over a tiny error in the calculation of the warmest year by NASA is much ado about nothing.
Even Steve McIntyre, the former mining official behind ClimateAudit who first came across the correction, admits this slight recalculation on NASA's part in no way disproves global warming.
“The reaction in the right-wing blogosphere is overwrought,” Mr. McIntyre said. “I certainly haven’t said that this is some kind of magic bullet that disproves global warming."
NASA scientist Reto Ruedy put it more bluntly, pointing out that both 1934 and l998 were within the margin of error, and calling the controversy "silly."
“This is totally ridiculous,” Mr. Ruedy said. “Lots of noise about noise.”
