Chris Mooney and the White House say that the US is burning up
7 Scary Facts About How Global Warming Is Scorching the United States | Mother Jones
The actual US is experiencing near record cold.
Before government data tampering and cherry picking, the US cooled nearly a degree over the past 85 years.
Reading the comments on the Mother Jones link is just precious…one cannot stray from the orthodoxy a single iota or thou shall be flamed…..
The article itself is priceless: “we simply do not live in the same America any more, thanks to climate change. It is a different place, a different country.” Well, it certainly is.
The list of people on Earth whom I hold in complete disdain and outright loathe is a very, very short list (arguably charitably short); however, it does include Chris Mooney. (Note: A simple “I was wrong and was inexcusably cocky and smarmy; I’m sorry” would take him off that list.)
I wonder when the next Mooney group wedding will be? Perhaps in mid summer at the North Pole. They might lose the brides in all that stuff our kids will never see.
Don’t forget the part that spreads alarm about the number of Americans living within four feet of sea level rise when we’re on pace and even forecasted to only rise about a foot by 2100! That’s about as relevant as worrying about how crowded we would be if we all lived to be 400…
And never mind the wildfire alarmism that pays no heed to fire suppression or human-caused fires.
At least they didn’t try to bring (non-trending) tornadoes or hurricanes into the mix.
Notice no delta range is given for the first graph. I bet it was taken between sunrise and high noon.
“Alaska is becoming unrecognizable”
Has Mooney asked anybody living in Alaska about this?
Alaskans can no longer see Alaska from their house
How would anybody in Alaska have any clue? They don’t have peer-review up there.
“projected to spend $5.6-$7.6 billion repairing infrastructure by 2080”
That is a laughable line. Really over the next 66 years they are ONLY going to spend up to $7.6 billion on their infrastructure? Sounds like a bargain.
Agreed
Some cities still have wooden pipes as part of their water distribution system!
Katrina and the Levees showed the hidden political rot.
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