NO WARMING IN CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES IN NINETY TWO YRS
Scientists said the study does not contradict an earlier report showing that within the “Lower 48″ part of the United States, there has been no evidence of a warming trend over the last century. The study showed that the average temperature in the lower United States has fluctuated around a fairly stable century-long average of 52.5 degrees F (11.38 C). The contiguous US land area is 8, 080, 464 km2 compared with Australia at 7, 692, 024 km2. Ranked sixth and seventh in order of the world’s land mass area. 
By comparison, the British office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the world’s oldest, most comprehensive center for global climate analysis, collected data from 1,000 weather stations on land and sea, around the world and found that the average year-round air temperature of the entire Earth in 1988 was 0.61 degrees higher than the average of 59 degrees for the period 1950-79. (15.33 degrees Celsius) NASA below, in the same period recorded a temperature of 15.44 degrees Celsius. A difference of more that four degrees Celsius between US and the world temperature in the same period!!
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Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period.
Dr. Jones said in a telephone interview today that his own results for the 48 states agreed with those findings. But he said there was no inconsistency between the apparent stable trend in the United States and the rise in global temperature because the 48 states cover a very small fraction of the earth’s surface and there are bound to be regional variations in climate.
They tried to downplay the significance of US temperatures that showed no warming up to 1988 by declaring the area of the US was a small fraction of the earth’s surface. What Hansen did not say was that the US was the 6th largest land mass.
In 1989, the New York Times admitted the US data released from NOAA failed to show a warming trend since 1895. Even in 1999, the temperature still trailed 1934 – James Hansen noted “The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year 1934.”