You Could Not Make It Up: ‘Climategate,’ Take Two? What NASA Knows About the Deniers by John H. Richardson, Esquire

1. Contrary to popular belief, global warming has not stopped nor has the rate of warming even slowed down in the past decade.

2. A new global temperature record (for the period of instrumental measurements) will be set within the next few months.

This comes from the latest “global surface temperature analysis” (PDF here) from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one the most important sources of real climate science. I got the summary in an e-mail from Dr. James Hansen, the NASA scientist who first told Congress that global warming was real back in the 1980s.

In the same e-mail, Hansen talked about the global warming contrarians I profiled in Esquire last month. “Somehow we have to do a better job of communicating,” he wrote me. “The tricks being used by people supporting denial and business-as-usual are recognizably dirty, yet effective.”