On July 15, Katharine Hayhoe – an “Associate Professor in the Public Administration program at Texas Tech University and Director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech,” one of the most well-known climate scientists (her Twitter account states she is one of the “2014 TIME100”), and a “lead author for the 2014 Third U.S. National Climate Assessment” – sent out the following tweet. So what Hayhoe has provided are the NASA-GISS global land-ocean temperature index anomalies (in degrees Celsius) between 1997 and 2013 (i.e., the last 17 years).  You can download the raw data here to follow along and “plot it yourself,” as Hayhoe suggests. Hayhoe states in no uncertain terms that it is a lie to claim that “it hasn't warmed in 17 years.”  Well then, apparently those practicing rigorous science are lying, because that data Hayhoe provided shows that “it hasn't warmed in 17...(Read Full Post)