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Post by cjm on Jan 29, 2017 9:22:34 GMT
New York Times: Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming NumbersI recently wrote about the wretched reporting on the claim that 2016 was the “hottest year on record,” using as my main example a New York Times article by Justin Gillis that gave his readers none of the relevant numbers they could use to evaluate that claim. None of them. If you search for the actual numbers, you will eventually find that the effect they are claiming, the actual amount by which this year was hotter than previous years, is smaller than the margin of error in the data. ....
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