NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) eagerly reported March 8 that February was the second warmest February in the last 123 years for the contiguous U.S. Various news media played it up. More evidence of dangerous, manmade global warming! (Except that of course warming is only evidence of warming, not of manmade warming. And the contiguous U.S. is not equal to the globe.) See http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt for the satellite data (which goes … [Read more...]