Associated Press on Global Warming: No Fact Checks, Please! | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary

Associated Press on Global Warming: No Fact Checks, Please! | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary: "If this summer’s weather is a result of global warming, then it had better be globally warm."

"All of these records share a common characteristic. They don’t show much warming since the late 1990s. More germane to Borenstein’s article is that, so far, 2012 is actually cool compared to the run of years since then. Such an inconvenient fact."

"Given the fact that 2012 is nothing special globally, then, under Borenstein’s logic, any odd weather from 1996 through now—when temperatures have been pretty constant—is consistent with global warming. That would include:

• Last year’s mild winter,

• The record length of time that the U.S. has seen since its last major hurricane strike, and

• The very low hurricane activity observed worldwide since 2005,

• The gigantic snowstorms that hit Washington DC in 2009-10,

• The very active hurricane season of 2005, and

• The lack of any trend whatsoever in severe tornadoes or economically-adjusted weather damages."