NASA On 2014 Being The Warmest Year On Record: Were Pretty Sure, Yeah, Thats It Now that all The Sky Is Falling headlines have further cemented the idea that man-made global warming via excess carbon is actually happening, it seems that the computer model used by NASA to make that claim in the last week has a fairly large margin for error: In a press release on Friday, Nasas Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed 2014 was the warmest year on record. As a result [of the 3,000 measuring stations having a large margin of error], GISSs director Gavin Schmidt has now admitted Nasa thinks the likelihood that 2014 was the warmest year since 1880 is just 38 per cent. And then there was the little tidbit that this increase was two hundreths of a degree Celsius (thats 0.02, as in it was teeny tiny), which is several times smaller than the one tenth of a degree margin of error. The Daily Mail, the origin of the quotes above, wanted to be sure that the NASA data misrepresentation admission was yet not another smoke and mirrors incident, so they consulted a different study of similar data over the same time frame: Another analysis, from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project, drawn from ten times as many measuring stations as GISS, concluded that if 2014 was a record year, it was by an even tinier amount. Its report said: Numerically, our best estimate for the global temperature of 2014 puts it slightly above (by 0.01C) that of the next warmest year (2010) but by much less than the margin of uncertainty. Therefore it is impossible to conclude from our analysis which of 2014, 2010, or 2005 was actually the warmest year the Earths average temperature for the past decade has changed very little. Well, isnt that special. According to all the reports, greenhouse gas emissions have sky-rocketed and the earths temperature doesnt seem to be changing. Well, not by much anyway. At least one scientist, though, is willing to entertain the idea that non-human variables effect the earth at a global level: Since the earth is several billion years old science doesnt particularly have a consensus on that, either and it was a lot hotter not even a thousand years ago, and then a lot colder MANY times, it could well be non-human factors are more of a force than not. For now, however, there is an argument on just how many hundreths of a degree the earth warmed last year. That humans are to blame does not seem to be in doubt. If ya cant make it, fake it! 