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Sunday, December 30, 2012
It is not called Death Valley for no reason
"Adam Nagourney reports that after a yearlong investigation a team of climate scientists announced that it is throwing out a reading of 136.4 degrees claimed by the city of Al Aziziyah, Libya
on Sept. 13, 1922 making the 134-degree reading registered on July 10,
1913, at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley the official world record as
the hottest place on earth. 'It's about time for science, but I think we
all knew it was coming,' says Randy Banis. 'You don't underestimate
Death Valley. Most of us enthusiasts are proud that the extremes that we
have known about at Death Valley are indeed the most harsh on earth.'
The final report by 13 climatologists appointed by the World
Meteorological Organization, the climate agency of the United Nations, found five reasons to disqualify the Libya claim,
including questionable instruments, an inexperienced observer who made
the reading, and the fact that the reading was anomalous for that region
and in the context of other temperatures reported in Libya that day.
'The more we looked at it, the more obvious it appeared to be an error,'
says Christopher C. Burt, a meteorologist with Weather Underground who started the debate in a blog post in 2010."
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