Drudge’s Effort To Spin Global Warming Science Reaches Record High

Drudge has a huge headline this morning which suggest that global warming isn’t real:

If you take the time to click the link, however, you get a totally different story. It’s new data from the NOAA about weather from January to August. Some excerpts:

Summer 2006 was the second warmest June-to-August period in the continental U.S. since records began in 1895…

The persistence of the anomalous warmth in 2006 made this January-August period the warmest on record for the continental U.S., eclipsing the previous record of 1934.

A blistering heat wave in July impacted most of the nation, breaking more than 2,300 daily records and more than 50 all-time high temperature records.

Only Matt Drudge could spin data that shows the last 8 months were the warmest on record into something that supports global warming deniers.

Here’s the larger point: the fact that the summer of 1936 was warmer than last summer does nothing to undermine global warming science. There are other things beside increased carbon dioxide emissions that can cause temperatures to rise. These factors “include volcanic eruptions, variations in the intensity of incoming solar radiation.” But scientists have taken those factors into consideration and concluded that increased carbon emissions from human activity is responsible for the recent warming trend.