by Speakeezie Image:Globalwarm.jpg The following is an article from Christopher Booker's notebook which speaks for itself and is worth reading. By Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 4:00am BST 20/08/2007 | The significance of this is that James Hansen, the head of GISS, has been Al Gore's closest scientific ally for nearly 20 years in promoting the global warming scare. The revised figures relate only to temperatures in North America but the fact that the pre-eminent scientific champion of the orthodoxy has been promoting erroneous data has considerable implications.