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... you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan, born this day in 1934 and the primary inspiration for this blog.

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Did NASA report that 1998 was the warmest in the US?

Because of the corrections to the GISS data 1998 and 1934 went from being in a virtual tie, to being in a virtual tie..

The McIntyre factor is the amount that you have to multiply the size of an adjustment in the GISS US temperatures by to get the number of words in the resulting Steve McIntyre post. Empirical evidence puts the McIntyre factor at 125,000. You see, on Sep 10 GISS made some small changes:

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