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This week, as has gone on for quite awhile this time each year, separate offices within the two US agencies best known for monitoring our planet – the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – released their summary numbers on climate in 2011, specifically its warmth. Their differences are the kind that are addressed in the phrase “a distinction without a difference.” They are different but it doesn’t matter. But still. News agencies often choose one or the other.

A look through the scattering of stories finds US climate scientists saying 2011 was, globally, the 11th warmest on record. No wait! Some outlets go with 9th warmest. The reason there is not one voice of authority of course lies in the advantage of having independent groups monitor important things. NOAA has its crew at the National Climate Data Center, which is surely more official than NASA’s team of climate scholars in Manhattan at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Not that it’s [...]

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