Met Office A significant drop in global average temperature in January 2008 has led to speculation that the Earth is experiencing a period of sustained cooling.
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So we need to produce a few more emissions to warm it up a bit? Right, i’ll go and switch all the lights on….
OFFS! That first paragraph completely skews the context. The next paragraph goes on about an underlying rise “almost certainly caused by man-made emissions …”.
This is typical of the majority of news media at the moment. They spout meaningless statistics to support whichever bandwagon they’re currently on. In this case: unsubstantiated “speculation” and unsupported claims about what is “almost certainly …” true.
It drives me mad!