2019 was the hottest year ever ... except that it was not

If you measure 

from the depths 

of the natural 

Little Ice Age, 

in the 1690s, 

the global 

average 

temperature 

is warmer, 

probably by 

at least 

+2 degrees C.

With a longer 

perspective,

our era's climate

is not remarkable. 

Remember 

that global 

surface average

temperatures

were first compiled 

DURING a long term

global warming trend. 

And that means

"new records" 

are expected 

to happen 

regularly, 

until the warming 

trend ends, and a 

cooking trend begins.

The most credible 

surface temperature 

numbers are from 

the United States.

For the U.S., 

2019 was cooler 

than 2005, 2006, 

2007, 2010, 2011, 

2012, 2015, 2016,

2017 and 2018. 

The American 

temperature 

records show 

the number of 

really hot days 

were declining 

over the 

past century.

GLOBAL  AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE

       NASA’s 

Goddard Institute 

for Space Studies

           ( GISS ) 

clings to the coolest 

available period 

          ( 1951-80 ) 

for their baseline.

The National 

Oceanographic 

and Atmospheric 

Administration, 

       ( NOAA ) 

equally alarmist 

in its views, 

uses 1981-2000.

NOAA and 

NASA GISS 

are claiming 

their data says

the world in 2019 

was the second 

warmest ever, and the 

decade of 2010-2019 

was the hottest ever 

( by a few hundredths 

of a degree C. ).

First of all, 

"ever" 
really means 

after Word War II --

there were 

no global data 

before that, 

forcing a lot of

guessing of the 

temperatures

for areas with 

insufficient

thermometer

coverage. 

I have argued here 

that the CURRENT 

surface temperatures 

still do not have

sufficient global

coverage.

When 
measuring 

temperatures 

outside of 

a laboratory, 

there's no way 

to be accurate 

to the nearest 

tenth of 
a degree C., 

much less 

a few 
hundredths 

of a degree C.

Including 
error bars
on charts

would show

temperature 
changes in a 
different light. 

Error bars would 

stop the scientific 

fraud of claiming 

one year’s rank 

by an amount 

smaller than 

the size of the 

measurement 

margin of error. 

Spurious 
accuracy

( sometimes called  

"false precision" )

is quoting the

global average 

temperature

in hundredths 

of a degree C., 

in spite of a 

conservative 

a margin of error 

of at least 

+/- 0.5 degrees C.

That's science fraud.