August 04, 2006

Big Media Starting to Catch the Wave

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Finally, the media is starting to link the heat wave to global warming.
This from The Washington Post:

Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate.

While it is impossible to attribute any one weather event to climate change, several recent studies suggest that human-generated emissions of heat-trapping gases have produced both higher overall temperatures and greater weather variability, which raise the odds of longer, more intense heat waves.

Of course, they had to ruin the whole story by ending it with the media's famous "balanced" skepticism. I mean, come on guys, even Pat Robertson has come around.

Posted by Paul Hina at 10:13 AM