Flashback 2007: NASA’s James Hansen on touting individual years as hottest: ‘As far as I remember, we have always discouraged that as being somewhat nonsensical’
NYT 2007 article by Andrew Revkin: 'Dr. Hansen and his team note that they rarely, if ever, discuss individual years, particularly regional findings like those for U.S. (the lower 48 are only 2% of the planet's surface). 'In general I think that we want to avoid going into more and more detail about ranking of individual years,' Hansen said'
