Yahoo News article declares first 6 months hottest on record -- *no* mention of climate change!

[villager]

Incredible!

Even with the evidence literally suffocating them!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/first-half-hottest-ever-record-214906847.html

[russspeakeasy]

1. Please, I'm begging you. Do not read yahoo news; you will go blind.

[libinnyandia]

2. They're a bunch of yahoos:0)

[IDemo]

3. Yahoo commenters are the worst

They removed the comment function a few years ago after that became apparent, but it's back along with the idjits.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Every news outlet that I heard today was on top of this story. No mention of climate change.

Hey. Did you know al gore, wearing earth toned clothes, invented the Internet while singing union songs his mother taught him?

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Self delete due to DU burping

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Self delete redux

[pintobean]

7. His source is NOAA

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/6
They didn't mention climate change.

However, the Yahoo article links to another article:
More Americans convinced of climate change after extreme weather
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/just-step-outside-more-americans-convinced-climate-change-213455838.html

So, the Yahoo article does mention climate change.

[villager]

8. As a journalist, you don't just (hopefully) rewrite a single source. But yes, he did link

...to an outside article on climate change.

Though there was no mention of it in his text, talking about the all-time heat record.

[pintobean]

9. What do you think he should have said?

Should every report on the weather mention climate change?

[villager]

10. Yes, Pintobean - every report whose purpose is to chronicle *new extreme weather*

...should mention climate change.

Responsible journalism gets into cause-and-effect.

[pintobean]

11. Maybe they should

wait until it's proven as the most likely cause of the particular event. Speculation isn't news.

[DirkGently]

12. Climate change isn't evidence of...climate change?

Go on, pull the other one.

[villager]

14. The predicted effects of climate change shouldn't be reported as climate change...

...when they start actually happening until more predicted effects from climate change start actually happening!

Or something!

[DirkGently]

15. "In the future, we'll have better technology, so we should wait ..."

... or something to that effect, was the argument of some professional climate denier on Cenk tonight. He actually used the example of MASSIVE FLOODING as something that may happen, but we'll be able to fix once it happens, because ... technology!

Really.

This gritted teeth contrarianism / magical thinking / corporate PR gibberish apparently has no end.

- "It's not happening."

- "Well, okay, clearly it's happening, but look, it's snowing someplace, take that Al Gore hahahaha."

- "Well, okay, clearly it's happening, a lot, but, it's not human activity causing it."

- "Well, sure, clearly human activity is PART of it, but ..."

- "CO2 is good for plants! Uh ... plants are good, right?"

And now, at last, we have, "Once things start REALLY crumbling, we can, like invent stuff to suck down ocean levels like with a really big bilge pump ... or ... something."

Jesus. We're in trouble.

[villager]

16. +1

n/t

[PufPuf23]

13. The meme should be anthropromorphic climate change and major extinction event. nt