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High School Science Discredits The New York Times' Latest Global Warming Whopper
By: Patrick Michaels
I was listening to NPR the other day when I heard the
New York Times’
Justin Gillis blithely mention that “experts” say sea level could rise three to six feet this century!
He’s right. That would be two outlier scientists who are beyond even the new projections made by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which likes to bill itself as the “consensus of scientists.” (More completely, that would be the consensus of scientists who built their careers on the global warming gravy plane and really don’t want to go back to coach.)
Gillis has taken over the Times’ global warming beat from the much more careful Andy Revkin, and he isn’t shy about pushing lurid warming stories. He’s not, because Gillis wants action, which, in its latest incarnation, would be a tax on everything we do that in some way is powered by fossil fuels. That would mean pretty much everything we do.
He first bloomed on my radar two years ago, when he wrote a breathless piece entitled, “A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself.”
Really? Well, the surface temperature is a bit warmer than it was in 1900—about 1.4°F worth. Since then, U.S. corn yields more than quintupled. Wheat yields tripled. After World War II, world crop production began an upward march at a remarkably constant rate, thanks to the way that science, technology and markets conspire to feed us all.
Read more at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrick...new-york-times-latest-global-warming-whopper/
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