Stealing Our Money By Legal Fraud

The other day, our favorite weatherman Greg Fischel made a statement that surprised me.  He said that 2017 was heading to be the warmest year on record until the last 3 days of the year, when it became the second warmest. Actually, I did not find this year to be that warm.  I can remember years when the high temperature never got below 90 degrees all summer, whereas this year there were days below 90 degrees. Now I find that NASA is still adjusting data from past years as Randall Hoven updates NASA's Rubber Ruler.

 Hoven first wrote about NASA's adjustment of prior year data going back to 1880 in 2012, when he downloaded than current data from NASA's site into a spreadsheet. He recently downloaded the latest data to discover that they are still adjusting the old data that they had previously adjusted.

In 2012, I wrote an American Thinker article on the status of global warming at the time. I used the latest available NASA/GISS data to do that analysis, which was the version NASA had on its website on April 30, 2012 (Land-Ocean Temperature Index [LOTI]).

At that time, the data from 1880 through 2011 showed a warming trend of 0.59 degrees Celsius per century.

What is that warming trend using the latest data from NASA's website (December 30, 2017), using those same exact years (1880-2011)? The answer is 0.66˚ C.

How did warming accelerate if we are looking at the very same years?

How, indeed.  Hoven also makes the point that IF, and its a big "if" at this point, global warming is actually happening, then:

We need to answer four questions before we take real action to address man-caused, catastrophic global warming:

Is the globe getting warmer?

If so, is man doing it (or most of it)?

If so, is it bad? If so, is the massive-reductions-in-CO2 approach the best way to deal with it?

The temperature record does not even address the last three of these questions. Yet even that first, most basic, question is on shaky ground. One could say that warming is man-caused: men adjusted the temperature record.

Now, Hoven just wants to be able to study global warming for himself, but can no find any non-adjusted data. Me? I am concerned that if the global warming prescriptions are implemented, trillions of dollars will flow from you and me to people like Al Gore.  If they earned this money by providing a useful product that we all wanted to purchase, I would have no problem with this.  But they want to take our money from us by fraud.  I don't know about you, but to me this sounds like they are stealing my life.