Fox claims Global Warning is OVER!!!!! (based on a story they saw in a tabloid)
So, basically, Romney won tomorrow nights debate and global warming is over. Fox has its talking points for the next two weeks set.
Fox Falls For Tabloid "Science"
Daily Mail: "Global Warming Stopped 16 Years Ago, Reveals Met Office Report Quietly Released." In the Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail reporter David Rose wrote that "new data" released by the Met Office, the UK's National Weather Service, reveal that "the world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago," because there was "no discernable rise in aggregate global temperatures." The Daily Mail and its Sunday sister paper the Mail on Sunday are British tabloids that have repeatedly misrepresented climate science. [Daily Mail, 10/13/12] [Media Matters, 2/1/12]
Fox News: "Global Warming Over." The story was subsequently picked up by Fox Nation, which linked to it under the headline "Report: Global Warming Stopped 16 Years Ago," and Fox & Friends, which featured the report with the chyron "Global Warming Over":
Other conservative media outlets, including Gateway Pundit and Watts Up With That, also promoted the misleading Daily Mail report. The National Review Online claimed that the Daily Mail report was based on a "new study," rather than the tabloid's interpretation of a data set. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/15/12] [Fox Nation, 10/14/12] [National Review Online, 10/15/12] [Gateway Pundit, 10/14/12] [Watts Up With That, 10/13/12] [Climate Depot, 10/15/12] [Powerline, 10/14/12]
But A Short-Term Trend Does Not Contradict Long-Term Climate Change
Met Office: Daily Mail Article Is "Misleading" By Selecting A Short Time Period. According to the official news blog of the Met Office, the Daily Mail article "contains some misleading information." First, the article claimed that the Met Office "quietly released" a report, but the Met Office "has not issued a report" -- it simply updated its global temperature dataset. Second, as the Met explained to the Daily Mail reporter David Rose it is misleading to choose "a starting or end point on short-term scales":
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