UPDATE:
It’s beyond astonishing primarily because it’s only half-true. The line Bump emphasized is referring to the “average temperature across land ocean surfaces” which means it’s a figure that applies to total global averages over the past 332 months. The way Bump is reading this—or at least the way he is conveying it—is that for 27 years no month anywhere on earth has been colder-than average.
This is not even remotely the case, though it certainly makes for an astonishing, alarmist headline.
[...]
Take, for instance, Northwest Ohio. This October marked the third consecutive colder-than-average month for the area. For the U.S. as a whole, October broke a 16-month warm streak. Turns out for the citizens of the United States this past month was colder-than-average, though the year as a whole will be warmer-than-average.
I don’t doubt that climate change is real and man-made and that the earth is growing ever warmer; nor do I doubt the possible ramifications of this process.
But alarmist headlines that are so obviously misleading will not help further the cause.
Forbes
This is not even remotely the case, though it certainly makes for an astonishing, alarmist headline.
[...]
Take, for instance, Northwest Ohio. This October marked the third consecutive colder-than-average month for the area. For the U.S. as a whole, October broke a 16-month warm streak. Turns out for the citizens of the United States this past month was colder-than-average, though the year as a whole will be warmer-than-average.
I don’t doubt that climate change is real and man-made and that the earth is growing ever warmer; nor do I doubt the possible ramifications of this process.
But alarmist headlines that are so obviously misleading will not help further the cause.
Forbes
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