The conservative news source tweeted a chart today that appears to show that average global temperatures have not increased since 1880, as climate change suggests.
The only #climatechange chart you need to see. https://t.co/XWPo00GulS
(h/t @powerlineUS) pic.twitter.com/QcrN2fCouT
— National Review (@NRO) December 14, 2015
But the chart’s scale is completely misleading. Readers caught on quickly.
.@NRO @powerlineUS no need to worry about the national debt then either! pic.twitter.com/f4UKGX2poJ
— healthy good boy (@SeanMcElwee) December 14, 2015
Measures of global land, sea, and satellite temperature data show that climate change is indeed occurring, and it’s not a debate.