Still more shenanigans from Hansen et al

Watch the Pea « Climate Audit

All of a sudden, a "hot spot" has developed over the Canadian Arctic Islands and the Arctic Ocean north of North America, that wasn't there on Monday (it was gray on Monday). A smaller hot spot also developed over Australia.

Corrected NASA GISTEMP data has been posted « Watts Up With That?

Note the bottom scale, the top end on the erroneous one was 13.7°C, while the corrected one tops out at 8°C. That alone should have set off alarm bells at GISS. Personally, I don’t believe the 8°C anomaly either, since much of the Russian weather data is suspect to start with, and the data distribution is sparse.