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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWeather Channel to Breitbart: Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans
https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-changeNote to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans
Published Dec 6 2016 02:16 PM EST
Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week.
Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage of weather and climate science, in this case we felt it important to add our two cents especially because a video clip from weather.com (La Niña in Pacific Affects Weather in New England) was prominently featured at the top of the Breitbart article. Breitbart had the legal right to use this clip as part of a content-sharing agreement with another company, but there should be no assumption that The Weather Company endorses the article associated with it.
The Breitbart article a prime example of cherry picking, or pulling a single item out of context to build a misleading case includes this statement: "The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare."
In fact, thousands of researchers and scientific societies are in agreement that greenhouse gases produced by human activity are warming the planets climate and will keep doing so.
Along with its presence on the high-profile Breitbart site, the article drew even more attention after a link to it was retweeted by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans (Original Post)
G_j
Dec 2016
OP
Breitbart Trogs seem to have a highly inflated sense of their own significance.
MrModerate
Dec 2016
#4
dhill926
(16,336 posts)1. if possible....sue the fuckers....
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Earth vs. Breitbart
malaise
(268,904 posts)3. Funny how they have all found their mouths post-election
Fugg 'em
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)4. Breitbart Trogs seem to have a highly inflated sense of their own significance.
While to the rest of the world they're largely pajama-wearing basement-dwellers.