The piece referenced yesterday about the evils of the conservative think tanks with respect to Global Warming has the following statement in it.
Here is an example of this false reporting: The frequency of Atlantic hurricanes has already doubled in the last century.
This statement appears at the conclusion with no reference as to how that fact was ascertained. When I queried the National Hurricane Center, here is the response they released to the Miami Herald which actually cites the pseudo-study.
“The new paper by Holland and Webster is sloppy science that neglects
the fact that better monitoring by satellites allows us to observe
storms and hurricanes that were simply missed earlier,” said Chris
Landsea of the National Hurricane Center.
Just one of about two dozen truly incredulous lapses in journalistic integrity posted by Newsweek.
