Steyn: A bad case of malignant narcissism

Whether or not 1998 was the hottest year ever came up a couple of days ago thanks to
the keen observations of Steve McIntyre of climateaudit.com who duly notified NASA of their atmospheric anomaly.

The brilliantly inimitable Mark Steyn waxes eloquent on the global warming purveyors and various other malcontents in his most recent column:

Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA's Web site and look at the "U.S. surface air temperature" rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that something has changed.

Then again, you might not. They're not issuing any press releases about it. But they have quietly revised their All-Time Hit Parade for U.S. temperatures. The "hottest year on record" is no longer 1998, but 1934. Another alleged swelterer, the year 2001, has now dropped out of the Top 10 altogether, and most of the rest of the 21st century – 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 – plummeted even lower down the Hot 100. In fact, every supposedly hot year from the Nineties and this decade has had its temperature rating reduced. Four of America's Top 10 hottest years turn out to be from the 1930s, that notorious decade when we all drove around in huge SUVs with the air-conditioning on full-blast. If climate change is, as Al Gore says, the most important issue anyone's ever faced in the history of anything ever, then Franklin Roosevelt didn't have a word to say about it.

And yet we survived.

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for leftists when Mark Stein and so many others wittily obliterate their vacuous ideology. Be sure to read the entire piece.