ONE MORE REASON NOT TO BUY THERE PRODUCT!!!
In a recently published info-graphic, entitled “Climate Change By The Numbers”, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream serves up a seamy confection of poor analysis, misleading truths, and downright falsehoods. The bright and breezy assemblage (one in a series promoting “Climate Justice”) approaches the topic with such childlike simplicity it practically spoon-feeds us its ‘factual’ memes. In the very first sentence, we’re told that the science of climate change is a “story” that is “told with numbers”. Thus, it seems only fair to count the errors in this shoddy work.
Predictably enough, the graphic begins with a frightening pronouncement:
To support the claim, they tell us that “9 of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000”. At best, the assertion is cavalier; at worst, it is untrue. In order to believe it, we must first forget that the temperature records in question are a brief 160 years old (a relative eye-blink compared to the 4.5 billion years of earth’s total existence). We must then play ignorant to a host of recent studies that have suggested the Medieval Warm Period was global in scope. Thirdly, we have to ignore the fact that earth’s temperatures have NOT risen, hand-in-glove, with CO2 emissions. Indeed, even reliable Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarmists like Michael Mann have felt obligated to try to explain the seventeen-year hiatus in global warming. And lastly, in order to swallow the fear inspired by the headline, we must pay no attention to the scientific evidence that CO2 levels have historically lagged behind corresponding changes in temperature.
Via American Thinker
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In a recently published info-graphic, entitled “Climate Change By The Numbers”, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream serves up a seamy confection of poor analysis, misleading truths, and downright falsehoods. The bright and breezy assemblage (one in a series promoting “Climate Justice”) approaches the topic with such childlike simplicity it practically spoon-feeds us its ‘factual’ memes. In the very first sentence, we’re told that the science of climate change is a “story” that is “told with numbers”. Thus, it seems only fair to count the errors in this shoddy work.
