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Nasa climate scientists: We said 2014 Site Web was the warmest year on record... but we're only 38% sure we were right Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed ‘2014 was the warmest year on record’ But it emerged that GISS’s analysis is subject to a margin of error Nasa admits this means it is far from certain that 2014 set a record at all By DAVID ROSE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 00:43 GMT, 18 January 2015 | UPDATED: 23:38 GMT, 19 January 2015 15k 839 shares View comments The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true. In a press release on Friday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed ‘2014 was the warmest year on record’. The claim made headlines around the world, but yesterday it emerged that GISS’s analysis – based on readings from more than 3,000 measuring stations worldwide – is subject to a margin of error. Nasa admits this means it is far from certain that 2014 set a record at all. Yet the Nasa press release failed to mention this, as well as the fact that the alleged ‘record’ Like Follow amounted to an increase over 2010, the Daily Mail @dailymailuk previous ‘warmest year’, of just two-hundredths of a degree – or 0.02C. The margin of error is Follow +1 said by scientists to be approximately 0.1C – +3 Daily Mail Daily Mail several times as much. 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