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ScienceNow Daily says 2009 hottest year south of equator. Climate Scientist says hogwash.

Last week an “exclusive” report by Eli Kintisch at ScienceNow Daily News asserted that “2009 was the hottest year on record south of the equator“:

The United States may be experiencing one of the coldest winters in decades, but things continue to heat up in the Southern Hemisphere. Science has obtained exclusive data from NASA that indicates that 2009 was the hottest year on record south of the Equator. The find adds to multiple lines of evidence showing that the 2000s were the warmest decade in the modern instrumental record.

Roger Pielke, Sr. of Climate Science disagrees. He says their claim fails the reality check when even a cursory examination of the data (the ”multiple lines of evidence“) is made. Hop over to Roger’s site and take a read and check out his temperature anomaly maps.

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2 Responses to “ScienceNow Daily says 2009 hottest year south of equator. Climate Scientist says hogwash.”

1. Donna Laframboise says:

   January 20, 2010 at 9:26 am

   A small note: Prof. Pielke, Sr. is not a skeptic and gets rather exasperated when he’s identified as one.

   He believes human activity does have an affect on climate – but that the IPCC’s narrow focus on C02 means that other, equally important, mechanisms (such as land use) are totally ignored.

   It seems to me Prof. Pielke is the kind of climate scientist we could use more of – meticulous, honest, and non-activist.

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   • Editor says:

     January 20, 2010 at 9:33 am

     Good point. Thank you. I’ve changed the title.

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