This is an excerpt from an article published a few days ago on an Italian newspaper. The author is Ugo Bardi, a scientist who is definitely in the "orthodoxy" c

This is an excerpt from an article published a few days ago on an Italian newspaper. The author is Ugo Bardi, a scientist who is definitely in the "orthodoxy" camp (also runs a blog about the dangers of climate change). The article he acknowledges that data were actually off and explains why (at least for Italy). Temperature record, is someone fudging the data? Here's the confusion of the past few days explained Another week, another heated climate controversy where, as a change, scientists manage to portray themselves in a not exactly positive light to the public (to say the least). Did you read last week's apocalyptic headlines? Things like "48°C temperatures incoming"? Well, they were quite exaggerated, actually, considerably so. But how did they end up on the front pages of newspapers? Did someone make them up? Or was it a conspiracy by the powers that be, who had recalibrated the thermometers of the global measurement network to scare us? No, it all started from a recent article by the ESA (European Space Agency). It wasn't incorrect per se, but they did not explain well the difference between "ground" temperature measurements and "air" measurements, which are usually much lower. Obviously, it's the air temperature that interests us, unless recently you've found a way to save a bit on your gas bill by boiling your pasta water by placing the pot on the asphalt of the parking lot in front of your house. But both journalists and the public did not understand the difference. Hence, the apocalyptic headlines and the ensuing controversy.