Written by Joseph Vasquez
August 24, 2019
“Hottest month in human history” has a certain ring to it. But some scientists say that ring isn’t true.
The media, always on the lookout for ways to demand action on climate change, latched on to a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) report, claiming July 2019, was the “warmest on record for the globe.”
The United Nations claimed the same thing on Aug. 1, which also generated media histrionics.
CBS News online, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and CNN.com all uncritically repeated similar claims about July 2019 being the hottest month “ever.”
But scientists who argue the data is flawed and who say it wasn’t really the “hottest” month didn’t make it into those alarmist news reports.
Rolling Stone’s headline absurdly (and falsely) declared on Aug. 1, that July was the “hottest month in human history.”
Although the story included the more accurate caveat “recorded history,” Rolling Stone didn’t tell readers the records only go back a limited period of time. For example, NOAA’s records began in 1880. That’s not even close to the totality of “human history.”
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