NASA says 1934 was warmest
As a believer in human responsibility for global warming, Mr Unwin (letters August 28) is by definition naive, but surely even he cannot be so unworldly as to accept NASA's failure to publicise its mistakes.
As a believer in human responsibility for global warming, Mr Unwin (letters August 28) is by definition naive, but surely even he cannot be so unworldly as to accept NASA's failure to publicise its mistakes.
No large organisation likes to admit errors and when NASA's mistakes were printed out they first refused to accept them, then they claimed they were 'insignificant'.
It remains unarguable that the hottest year recorded by NASA in the last hundred years was 1934 (not 1938 as Mr Unwin writes or 1931 as the Star gave in my letter) followed by 1998.
This was reported in Mr Brooker's column in the Sunday Telegraph, before my letter to the Star and in a Guardian article a few days later. If Mr Unwin and Mr Cole prefer to rely upon the Daily Sport that is hardly my fault.
John Phillimore, near Wem
