{"id":1395,"date":"2012-12-31T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2012-12-31T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T20:50:47","slug":"fox-news-climate-lols-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/31\/fox-news-climate-lols-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox &#8220;News&#8221; climate LOLs 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/13\/atheists-murder-laughing-matter-at-fox-news\/\">atheophobic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/11\/grouchy-misanthropic-heathen-atheists\/\">revolting<\/a> Fox &#8220;News&#8221; continues to spew out lies and misinformation, its programming at times gets quite entertaining, albeit not in ways that the producers would have in mind. On Media Matters, there is a list of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/10-dumbest-things-fox-said-about-climate-change\/191859\">10 dumbest things Fox said about climate change in 2012<\/a>&#8220;. The whole piece is fun to read, but these two are my favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Fox Website: &#8220;Global Warming Means More Arctic Ice.<\/strong>&#8221; In October, the Associated Press reported that, contrary to conservative media misinformation, slight Antarctic sea ice growth is consistent with climate scientists&#8217; projections for a warming planet. Fox Nation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/fox-nation-science-global-warming-means-more-ar\/190558\">posted<\/a> the story with the headline &#8220;AP: Global Warming Means More Arctic Ice.&#8221; In fact, <em>Arctic<\/em> sea ice had just experienced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2012\/09\/27\/study-tv-news-covered-paul-ryans-workout-3x-mor\/190165\">lowest<\/a> minimum extent ever observed, a key indicator of rapid climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/arcticice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/arcticice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/arcticice.jpg 386w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/arcticice-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Fox &#8220;News&#8221; has long been separated from this thing called &#8220;reality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/realarcticice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1403\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/realarcticice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Fox Website: &#8220;Wind Farms Cause Global Warming.<\/strong>&#8221; In April, a study found that nighttime temperatures in areas around Texas wind farms were higher than in areas without wind turbines. Fox Nation, a section of FoxNews.com,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/global-warming\/2012\/04\/30\/new-research-shows-wind-farms-cause-global-warming\">linked<\/a>\u00a0to a story about the study with a headline declaring that wind farms &#8220;cause global warming.&#8221; But the study&#8217;s authors\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/scientist-debunks-misleading-coverage-of-wind-f\/184057\">called<\/a>\u00a0this coverage &#8220;misleading,&#8221; explaining that it is &#8220;[v]ery likely&#8221; that &#8220;wind turbines do not create a net warming of the air and instead only re-distribute the air&#8217;s heat near the surface, which is fundamentally different from the large-scale warming effect caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/windfarms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1402\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/windfarms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/windfarms.jpg 378w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/12\/windfarms-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy the rest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While atheophobic and revolting Fox &#8220;News&#8221; continues to spew out lies and misinformation, its programming at times gets quite entertaining,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}