Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer – 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizzard. And now, unusual hurricane-caused flooding in Vermont.
Borenstein has no idea what he is talking about.
In June, 1934 the entire country had triple digit heat. We didn’t come anywhere close to that this summer.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf
Severe drought in 1934 covered 80% of the country, compared with 25% in 2011
Flooding in 1927 was worse. Are these reporters too lazy or too dumb to do any research?
http://news.google.com/newspapers
Not lazy or dumb…journalists report not reality but a narrative of it. It’s the readers believing in that narrative the real problem.
I see a Bad Moon Rising!
Wrong, Borenstein is not ignorant.
He is the main stream medias main propagandist.
Not stupid, just evil.
Seth Borenstein seems to be a mindless advocate.
And, in another example of his poor science skills, he reports today (2/8/12) on the Russians successfully drilling through 2 miles of Antarctic ice to a prehistoric lake. Well done, but he reports that the site is 800 miles “southeast” of the South Pole. Really? Didn’t know you could go any farther south than the South Pole.
Bill- SB has changed the text and it now reads “east of the South Pole” as if such a place could ever exist. I’ve sent him two tweets…