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More right wing entertainment from Neil Boortz

American Narcissism at work:

The story says that the top-ten years in terms of temperature have occurred since Clinton's second coronation. Not true. The hottest year on record was 1934. These people just won't give up.

See the problem is he's only looking at US temperatures. What the article actually says is:

Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration.

LA Times addressed the story back at the time of the adjustment in US records:

A slight adjustment to U.S. temperature records has bumped 1998 as the hottest year in the nation's history and made the Dust Bowl year of 1934 the new record holder, according to NASA.

The reranking did not affect global records, and 1998 remains tied with 2005 as the hottest year on record worldwide, climatologist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York said Tuesday.

The data adjustment changes "the inconsequential bragging rights for certain years in the U.S.," he said. But "global warming is a global issue, and the global numbers show that there is no question that the last five to 10 years have been the hottest period of the last century."

Inconsequential... too bad right wing entertainment isn't...

Getting global warming wrong is a theme for Boortz, who likes to promote the 650 "scientists" who deny global warming is man made:

Then that leads me to this ... a US Senate Minority Report is about to be released. It contains testimony from over 650 scientists (note that they are all scientists and not just ENVIRONMENTALISTS) who are criticizing the man-made climate claims of this UN conference.

Well all 650 scientist aren't actually climatologists who spend their careers looking at the issue. As the new republic blog points outhis list has been debunked before:

when people started sifting through the names, they found that many experts on the list were actually weathermen, economists, and people with no real background in climate science. Worse still, when Andrew Dessler started contacting some of the actual climate scientists listed, many of them expressed first shock, then horror, and then e-mailed Inhofe's staff and demanded to be taken off, since they didn't disagree with the scientific consensus on climate change at all.

For more on his fraud go read Inhofe's 400 Global Warming Deniers Debunked

List of "Scientists" Includes Economists, Amateurs, TV Weathermen and Industry Hacks

Boortz is an entertainer but does huge damage to the political process be feeding ignorance and fear.

global warming

In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that global warming was already contributing to more than 150,000 deaths each year - 410 deaths every day. The toll could double by 2030. (Juliet Eilperin, ‘Climate Shift Tied To 150,000 Fatalities,’ Washington Post, November 17, 2005; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602197.html)