Ronald Bailey Asks If Federal Climate Scientists Are Fudging U.S. Temperature Records?

“Right after the year 2000, NASA and NOAA
dramatically altered US climate history, making the past much
colder and the present much warmer. …This alteration turned a long
term cooling trend since 1930 into a warming trend,” asserted
climate change skeptic Tony Heller (nom de blog Steven
Goddard) on his Real Science website. This ignited a frenzy of
commentary on the Internet and attracted the attention of the
Drudge Report, the Telegraph, the Daily Caller, and Fox News.
Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey investigates
the claims that NASA climate scientists are retrospectively
fiddling with the national thermostat in order to change climate
history as a way to bolster the case for man-made global
warming.

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