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captainsblogis being predictable enough for you to set your watch by it.
I knew it would be only a matter of time before one of the deniers chimed in as a result of the last-week-of-October snowstorm hitting much of the Northeast.
Yup: posted on Friday, before the storm even really got going:
Of course, anecdotal evidence is great when it supports the deniers. When things were hotter than ever, and for longer than ever, this past summer? Not so much:
Steve Scolnik at Capital Climate analyzed the data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and found, “U.S. Summer Heat Records Continue Overwhelming Cold Records By Over 8:1.” These large ratios for the summer and the first 23 days of July are a big deal compared to, for instance, the average over the last decade of about 2-to-1 ...
But the conservative media can’t even bring themselves to admit that, as Media Matters documents:
On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh declared that “almost no temperature records were broken” during the recent heat wave and that media outlets who reported on “record-breaking” heat were telling “a bunch of lies” to “advance a political agenda of liberalism.”
Limbaugh’s remarks echo a Newsbusters post in which Noel Sheppard claims that “almost no temperature records were actually broken.” He came to this conclusion by ignoring most of the temperature records. Nevertheless, Sheppard’s claim was picked up not only by Limbaugh but also Fox Nation:
Although I don't use Twitter, I do have to admit: 140 characters is more than enough to convey stupid.
I knew it would be only a matter of time before one of the deniers chimed in as a result of the last-week-of-October snowstorm hitting much of the Northeast.
Yup: posted on Friday, before the storm even really got going:
Of course, anecdotal evidence is great when it supports the deniers. When things were hotter than ever, and for longer than ever, this past summer? Not so much:
Steve Scolnik at Capital Climate analyzed the data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and found, “U.S. Summer Heat Records Continue Overwhelming Cold Records By Over 8:1.” These large ratios for the summer and the first 23 days of July are a big deal compared to, for instance, the average over the last decade of about 2-to-1 ...
But the conservative media can’t even bring themselves to admit that, as Media Matters documents:
On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh declared that “almost no temperature records were broken” during the recent heat wave and that media outlets who reported on “record-breaking” heat were telling “a bunch of lies” to “advance a political agenda of liberalism.”
Limbaugh’s remarks echo a Newsbusters post in which Noel Sheppard claims that “almost no temperature records were actually broken.” He came to this conclusion by ignoring most of the temperature records. Nevertheless, Sheppard’s claim was picked up not only by Limbaugh but also Fox Nation:
Although I don't use Twitter, I do have to admit: 140 characters is more than enough to convey stupid.
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