While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower
By PHIL PLAIT - BAD ASTRONOMY
Added: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:29:49 UTC
Over the weekend, two amazingly bad articles were published about climate change. Both were loaded with mistakes, misinterpretations, and outright misinformation, and are simply so factually wrong that they almost read like parodies.
Just so we’re clear here.
The first was in the Wall Street Journal. The article, called No Need to Panic About Global Warming, is a textbook example of misleading prose. It’s laden to bursting with factual errors, but the one that stood out to me most was this whopper: "Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now."
What the what?
That statement, to put it bluntly, is dead wrong. It relies on blatantly misinterpreting long term trends, instead wearing blinders and only looking at year-to-year variations in temperature. The Skeptical Science website destroyed this argument in November 2011, in fact. The OpEd also ignores the fact that nine of the ten hottest years on record all occurred since the year 2000.
Tweet
RELATED CONTENT
Plant blooms after 30,000 years in...
Kate Ravilious - New Scientist 55 Comments
Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost
America and Eurasia 'to meet at north...
Neil Bowdler - BBC News Science &... 16 Comments
America and Eurasia will crash into each other over the North Pole in 50-200 million years time, according to scientists at Yale University.
Antarctic lake success 'uncertain'
- - BBC News Science & Environment 17 Comments
These bodies of water have been sealed off from the atmosphere for millions of years and so may contain life forms new to science.
"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to...
Peter Gleick - Forbes 45 Comments
"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool <a href="People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data
Volcanoes Indicted for Europe's Long,...
Richard A. Kerr - Science - AAAS 5 Comments
Volcanoes Indicted for Europe's Long, Big Chill
New Satellite Takes Spectacular...
Adam Mann - Wired Science 55 Comments

New Satellite Takes Spectacular High-Res
Image of Earth
MORE BY PHIL PLAIT
Stunning view of a bloom from space
Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy 6 Comments

Stunning view of a bloom from space
SPEECH Act now a law: big win for libel...
Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy 35 Comments
Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy Blog 7 Comments
Astronomers see exoplanet orbiting its...
Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy Blog 12 Comments
Has life on Titan been discovered? No.
Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy 28 Comments





















Comments
Comment RSS Feed
Please sign in or register to comment
View Comments Page