Need Another Scientific Analysis

NASA recently was embarassed by the Blogosphere when a Canadian, of all people, discovered a little "accounting error" with how NASA's climatologists were calculating and reporting aggregate temperatures readings.

Put another way, the new figures show that 4 of the 10 warmest years in the US occurred during the 1930s, not more recently. This caused a stir among
those critical of the push to stem human-induced climate change.

How inconvienent is this for ALGORE?

As usual, the liberal media has to explain away the whole subtle nastiness of innaccurate data by quoting NASA's Gavin Schmidt as saying;

"The data adjustment changes 'the inconsequential bragging rights for certain years in the U.S.,' he said. But 'global warming is a global issue, and the global numbers show that there is no question that the last five to 10 years have been the hottest period of the last century.' "

Yes, it maybe inconsequential to the bragging rights of sorts, but it also leaves one to wonder, if NASA itself is wrong, how are the other data sets calculated, who's doing them, and how accurate are they?

To me, this is a "believe as your told" event; another example of scientific elitism. The message is yet again, DO NOT to question academia.

Article: Change in hottest year fuels global warming skeptics
By: Brad Knickerbocker