Timeline:

15 Feb 2009: George Will wrote in the Washington Post:

... according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade ...[i.e. since 1998]

21 March 2009: The Secretary General of the World Metereological Organization wrote in the Washington Post:

It is a misinterpretation of the data and of scientific knowledge to point to one year as the warmest on record -- as was done in a recent Post column ["Dark Green Doomsayers," George F. Will, op-ed, Feb. 15] -- and then to extrapolate that cooler subsequent years invalidate the reality of global warming and its effects.

2 April 2009: George Will wrote in the Washington Post:

[Global] warming ... is allegedly occurring even though, according to statistics published by the World Meteorological Organization, there has not been a warmer year on record than 1998.

posted by Quiddity at 4/02/2009 03:51:00 PM