The GiSS, run by AGW advocate James Hansen, reported that October was the warmest October on record.

One slight problem– it wasn’t.  It was actually a carryover of September data of very hot Russian data.   Sattelites showed a much different story.

Climate Skeptic compares the two metrics.  The Russian carryover data should have been caught, esepcially after the huge uptick in temperatures.  Some people are a little too quick to claim dramatic warming– especially as the trends are on a steady decline.

GISS at least had the integrity to report the error– although they pretty much shrugged their shoulders as to why the error was not caught.

Others blogging: Hot Air.