UPI, WASHINGTON, June 8 — After the past several years of record warm temperatures worldwide, the first several months of 1998 brought some of the warmest U.S. temperatures ever on record, the federal government announced. The data was collected by NOAA and announced by Vice President Al Gore, who said some of this year’s warming could be attributed to the cyclical El Nino patterns. But, Gore said, the overall trend found by NOAA ‘is a reminder once again that global warming is real, and that unless we act, we can expect more extreme weather in the years ahead.’ He cited such events as record levels of precipitation, record deaths from tornadoes, damage to coral reefs from the Florida Keys to Australia, and wildfires in Malaysia, Brazil and Mexico. Gore announced the NOAA findings as a means of increasing pressure on Congress to approve President Clinton’s budget request for $6.3 billion over five years for tax and research incentives to promote more energy- efficient technologies.

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Gore insisted U.S. industry had the expertise and ability to make affordable changes to combat global warming, saying, ‘We can do that. We know how to do that.’ Worldwide average temperatures in the 1980s and the 1990s have been the highest on record, and the Earth’s average surface temperature last year of some 62 degrees F represented the highest level ever recorded. Federal researchers said new temperature records were set in five states in the first five months of 1998, with the average global surface temperature running 1.76 F above the average of 61.7 degrees F for the benchmark period 1961-1997.

Tom Karl seems to have had an obsession with global warming by the altering of already published data (shown above in bold red) which included the years 1993-1997 followed by his inflation of temperatures in period 2001-2015 that were used to justify the Paris Accord. There is no evidence that Karl derived any financial benefit from his altering of data in fact he retired the very next year in 2016 and has declined to be interviewed ever since.

Not long after congress had rejected President Clinton’s budget request for $6.3 billion, Tom Karl withdrew NOAA’s temperature data previously used by Al Gore in support of Clinton’s request to congress. Karl said he had amended the data on the grounds that the estimate for the baseline global temperature used in this study differed, and was warmer than, the baseline estimate (Jones et al., 1999) used currently. The report has been superseded by subsequent analyses. After removing five years of data from the record and replacing them with higher temperatures Karl has now reinstated the original temperatures.

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