by Duggan Flanakin
As appearing on Townhall.com
The drivel from air-conditioned mainstream media newsrooms has reached new levels of guffaw with the “shocking” headlines that the Fourth of July was the hottest day on Earth in “as many as 125,000 years” – breaking a record set on July 3.
Hmmm. Really? Or is this just hype to avoid mentioning the shortfall of patriotic fireworks, replaced by drones across much of the Home of the Brave (not so much)…
According to “defense attorney” Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com, the recorded average global temperature of 62.6o F was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which “relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.”
Milloy, who scoffs at the idea that calculated estimates of current temperatures can be fairly compared with guesses about specific global temperatures long before recorded history, is even less sanguine about modern-day temperature “reporting.” He notes that 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations reportedly produce corrupted data, and 92 percent have a margin of error of nearly 2o F.
