Last month I alerted readers of the Alabama Climate Report that something was fishy with the allegedly increasing number of hot days in Alabama (90°F or greater) that was being promoted by the New York Times.
Their results indicated the number of these “hot” days was rapidly increasing for cities like Huntsville and Montgomery.
I provided you with the real data showing that if anything, the number of “hot” days has actually declined in the past 123 years both for Alabama and the conterminous U.S. (See below).
What’s going on?
After being made aware of my posting, the Times editor contacted me to explain the methodology developed for them by the Climate Impacts Lab (CIL, which may be characterized as an environmental pressure group). SEE ALSO: Alabama’s State Climatologist Exposes NYTimes’ Misleading Interactive ‘Heat’ Map
I can only say shame on the New York Times.
For the values shown after 2000, the CIL included imaginary data from climate model output – the same type of output that was shown to be false by Richard McNider and me in a paper published in 2016 in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
All the climate models (77 of them) produced rising summer daytime temperatures for Alabama while the real observations show no such rise.
So, that explains how the New York Times displays a rising incidence of “hot” days when the real observations show that is not the case – they simply stirred in some imaginary data.
Read the full post at Alabama Climate Report
What ? The NYT lies again ? The new “journalist ” method . Lie on the front page and retract in the tiniest possible way on page 20 .
One of the largest tree killing businesses on earth spins climate porn as a deflection /marketing strategy . When did the NYT decide to lie to its dwindling readership ?
The NYT’s the Old Grey Hag its no longer a real news paper its a liberal leftists propeganda rag pushing its liberal leftists agenda and its one liberal rag you would’nt bother to even glance through lies printed front front to back