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Here is an analysis using critical intelligence to interpret media reports about temperature records this summer. Daniel Engber writes in Slate Crazy From the Heat
The subtitle is Climate change is real. Record-high temperatures everywhere are fake.
As we shall see from the excerpts below, The first sentence is a statement of faith, since as Engbert demonstrates, the notion does not follow from the temperature evidence. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
It’s been really, really hot this summer. How hot? Last Friday, the Washington Post put out a series of maps and charts to illustrate the “record-crushing heat.” All-time temperature highs have been measured in “scores of locations on every continent north of the equator,” the article said, while the lower 48 states endured the hottest-ever stretch of temperatures from May until July.
These were not the only records to be set…
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