New information says 2016 was the "hottest year on record" and that human activity is to blame. But not everyone agrees with that line of thinking.

According to information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), published in USA Today, the average temperature across the earth's land and ocean surfaces was 58.69 degrees last year. That is 1.69 degrees above average.

Beisner

"First, NOAA has been rejiggering temperature readings for a long time, creating the appearance of more rapid warming than has actually happened," responds catastrophic man-made global warming skeptic Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. "Second, the surface temperature data, which is what NOAA depends on, show that kind of warming, at least as they rejiggered them, but the satellite and the weather balloon data do not."

Beisner says the satellite data show that 2016 was a grand total of two hundredths of one degree warmer than 1998.

"That was the second warmest year on record, and my good friend Dr. Roy Spencer, who was the chief U.S. science team leader on the satellite program, tells me that that is statistically insignificant. You really can't make any significant difference between 2016 and 1998," Beisner concudes.