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General Category => Climate Change => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 19, 2024, 11:25:13 am
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L A Times Cherry Picks & Misrepresents NOAA Climate Data to Exaggerate March 2024 U.S. and Global Temperature Outcomes
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Guest Essay by Larry Hamlin
The L A Times article and headline shown below exaggerate the March 2024 U.S. and global temperature outcomes by cherry picking and misrepresenting data that mischaracterizes what the data actually shows.
The Times article makes the following claims regarding the U.S. for the period January through March 2024:
“In the United States, March was the 17th warmest in the 130-year data record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average temperature in the contiguous U.S. was 45.1 degrees — 3.6 degrees above average.”
The Times article does not present readily available NOAA measured Maximum Contiguous U.S Temperature for the month of March from 1895 through 2024 as shown below.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/18/l-a-times-cherry-picks-misrepresents-noaa-climate-data-to-exaggerate-march-2024-u-s-and-global-temperature-outcomes/