For the second-straight year the media are trumpeting a “record-warm” March. This year the April 16th USA Today touts its version with the headline “Earth’s temperature 8th-warmest on record so far in 2009” – on the basis of just three months’ data. Doyle Rice’s accompanying article is textbook hype.

We are in a slow recovery since the little ice age with 60 year cyclical ups and downs. We peaked around 1940 and 2000 and reached bottoms near 1910 and 1970. We have been cooling for the last 7 plus years. Claims of warming are increasingly tenuous.

When turning to surface station … Continue Reading