This One Is Important - Remember It

I am giddy...

So we've all read that the last decade has been the hottest on record, that 1998 was the hottest year on record and 2005 tied that record. Right?

WRONG

Yesterday NASA changed the data - now it seems 1934 was actually the hottest and the temperature spike recently was artifically high (NASA has acknowledged the mistake).

In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them all – until someone checked the math. After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA this month to one flaw in its climate calculations, the U.S. agency ordered a full data review. Days later, it put out a revised list of all-time hottest years. The Dust Bowl year of 1934 now ranks as hottest ever in the U.S. – not 1998. More significantly, the agency reduced the mean U.S. "temperature anomalies" for the years 2000 to 2006 by 0.15 degrees Celsius. (article here)

So what does this mean????? Here's what:

1934 is now the hottest, and 3 others from the 1930's are in the top 10. Furthermore, only 3 (not 9) took place since 1995 (1998, 1999, and 2006). The years 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 are now below the year 1900 and no longer even in the top 20. (source)

Here's the raw data by the way straight from NASA...

All I can say is, WOW. Remember this one because it'll be out of the headlines (if it even gets there - maybe Newsweek will retract their article?) before you know it.