NASA’s Gavin Schmidt boasted ‘hottest year’ claim ‘was a huge media story – even my parents noticed!’ – Admits ‘hottest year’ claims ‘are simply not that important’
Schmidt: 'This is also despite the fact that differences of a few hundredths of a degree are simply not that important to any key questions or issues that might be of some policy relevance. A record year doesn’t appreciably affect attribution of past trends, nor the projection of future ones...A lot of energy and attention is focused on issues with little relevance to actual decision-making and with no particular implications for deeper understanding of the climate system.'
Full Article here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/01/thoughts-on-2014-and-ongoing-temperature-trends/
