Issue #223
August 16, 2007
Sure Things: Death, Taxes, Fox News Lying
Josh Dorner
Week after week, our friends at Fox News announce that they've found the latest smoking gun to prove that global warming is really all just a hoax, but hey, even if wasn't it would really just make daily life more pleasant anyway. After all, who wouldn't like the shores of Lake Michigan to be more like those Caribbean beaches I used to spend Spring Break on?! (We hear Bill O'Reilly really likes Caribbean vacations, and, um, stuff my mom told me never to mention in mixed company.)
My pals at Media Matters have documented just the latest of Fox's so-called smoking guns. Global warming deniers have repeated ad nauseum (really -- I had to take some Pepto before I sat down to write this) for years that it was actually hotter in the 1930s than it has been in recent years -- definitive proof that ExxonMobil was right after all. Fox News suggests celebrating the good news by buying a new Hummer and burning some coal. Rush Limbaugh even jumped on the bandwagon -- and we all know what he's going to celebrate with.
Well, turns out the truth is that they did actually have some real scorchers back in the day. Dust Bowl ring a bell anyone? And it turns out that owing to a VERY small change in a comparison of certain temperature records, some of those years may have been slightly hotter on average than the truly hellacious average temps we saw in 1998 and 2005 -- but only when you look at the U.S.
Despite what Fox News -- and undoubtedly a large proportion of its audience -- believes, the U.S. is not the only country in the world. A quick look-see at the GLOBAL temperature record reveals that 2005 is still the hottest year on record, followed by 1998, with all ten of the hottest years having been since 1989.
As RAW devotees already know, we're trying to turn up the heat on Fox and its advertisers because of its irresponsible reporting on global warming (and nearly everything else). Click HERE to help us out.
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