While atheophobic and revolting Fox “News” continues to spew out lies and misinformation, its programming at times gets quite entertaining, albeit not in ways that the producers would have in mind. On Media Matters, there is a list of “10 dumbest things Fox said about climate change in 2012“. The whole piece is fun to read, but these two are my favorites:
Fox Website: “Global Warming Means More Arctic Ice.” In October, the Associated Press reported that, contrary to conservative media misinformation, slight Antarctic sea ice growth is consistent with climate scientists’ projections for a warming planet. Fox Nation posted the story with the headline “AP: Global Warming Means More Arctic Ice.” In fact, Arctic sea ice had just experienced the lowest minimum extent ever observed, a key indicator of rapid climate change.
Of course, Fox “News” has long been separated from this thing called “reality”.
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Fox Website: “Wind Farms Cause Global Warming.” In April, a study found that nighttime temperatures in areas around Texas wind farms were higher than in areas without wind turbines. Fox Nation, a section of FoxNews.com, linked to a story about the study with a headline declaring that wind farms “cause global warming.” But the study’s authors called this coverage “misleading,” explaining that it is “[v]ery likely” that “wind turbines do not create a net warming of the air and instead only re-distribute the air’s heat near the surface, which is fundamentally different from the large-scale warming effect caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.”
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