Flashback NASA’s Hansen 2007: ‘In general I think that we want to avoid going into more and more detail about ranking of individual years’
Hansen: 'As far as I remember, we have always discouraged that as being somewhat nonsensical' --'Dr. Hansen and his team note that they rarely, if ever, discuss individual years, particularly regional findings like those for the United States (the lower 48 are only 2 percent of the planet's surface'