Who Started the "GW ended in 1940" rumor?

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I've seen a couple relatively new posters make the claim (sadly, without any links or references that could be checked) that NASA has or is revising their temperature dataset and that will "prove" that the warmest recent global (not US-only) period was in the late 30's.  Is this just a rehash of the glitch McIntyre found that was corrected for last year or is there something new out there?

About last years correction:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/updates/200708.html

Here's a chance for some new doubter to make a reputation and earn my respect. Just provide a link to a reputable scientific research organization that shows the global temperature in the 1930's was higher than recent years.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2007/ann/global-jan-dec-error-bar-pg.gif
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/images/pr20070104.gif

gcnp58 · Accepted Answer

Probably, if we spent 5 minutes googling around, we could find the skeptic blog or website where this is originating.  My money would be on some minor no-credentialed skeptic like Michael Asher, then the skeptics pick up on it, think "hell yeah!" and post it here.  Truth is, 99% of the skeptic arguments bore the beejeezus out of me because they are scientifically uninteresting.  It isn't even worth the brain cycles to figure out which law of physics they violate and besides, they really only have two or three arguments, spoken with different levels of intensity:

1.  CO2 isn't important, it's the sun

2.  Temperature isn't rising

3.  Al Gore is an idiot

Now if we had more people asking questions about spraying bacteria into the stratosphere to sequester carbon in the ocean, that would perk things right up.  I hadn't seen that one before.

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Who Started the "GW ended in 1940" rumor?

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