HOTTEST (OOOPS COLDEST?) OCTOBER EVER

Al Gore and his chief scientific advisor, Dr Hansen, who runs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that October 2008 was the 'hottest" October on record. Eventually someone with a brain checked the records and turns out that Russia and other countries, being short of budget funds to record temperatures and long on Vodka for consolation, had simply used the September 2008 temperatures over again when reporting their data, making October appear to be 10 degrees hotter than normal. Russia is a large piece of real estate so it skewed the world's temperature readings. Quite efficient one might say to 'recycle' the same data over again for another time period. However, not very scientific. October 2008 was actually the 70th hottest October on record; that's another way of saying it was the 34th COLDEST October on record(out of the 114 years such records have been kept). Read this link for a peek into how hysteria is quickly spread by Green proponents yet retractions are not so quick to come. Come to think of it Al Gore has been eerily silent for a while. (eerily: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious) My choice of words here seems to be perfect as well as my rather 'cute' use of the green term 'recycle' above. I feel especially clever today after proving once more that I can read, more apparently than can be said of 'Green' meteorologists.