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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

• smashing 14y ago
  Anyone who claims, like this author does, that energy companies such as ExxonMobil aren't heavily invested in diversifying their portfolio of technology solutions to include solar and wind power is either mistaken or intentionally misleading. Anyway, they got a page view from me.
• smartial_arts 14y ago
  "June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States." this is meaningless, really. I take it's based on the number of local observations across the country, which is somewhat tied to number of weather stations. It does look like a huge and convincing number - gosh, if it is 3215 we must be onto something! But merely increasing number of places where measurements are taken going to drive this number up. I am not suggesting the global warming is a non-issue, although this article is quite full of inconsistencies like that, as well as minor sins like not mentioning your sources - where does number "3.7 x 10-99" for the odds of increase of temperature comes from, for example?