{"id":45694,"date":"2013-10-02T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T23:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=45694"},"modified":"2013-10-02T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T23:02:02","slug":"cbs-reports-temperatures-could-have-risen-to-212-degrees-but-oceans-ate-the-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/10\/cbs-reports-temperatures-could-have-risen-to-212-degrees-but-oceans-ate-the-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS reports temperatures could have risen to 212 degrees — but oceans ate the warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media Research Center reports:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UN\u2019s climate panel (IPCC) released its latest warning about “catastrophic” climate change on Sept. 27, garnering the frantic attention of all three broadcast networks that night. CBS even aired a claim about temperatures rising \u201cmore than 200 degrees.”<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC Sept. 27 repeated the IPCC\u2019s dire warnings without including any skeptics and without mentioning past failures such as their inability to accurately predict warming or sea level rise…<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvening News\u201d took a different tack, airing a story about oyster farming and complaints that climate change is ruining a man\u2019s business. But in Ben Tracy\u2019s story, which mentioned the IPCC\u2019s latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly. Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called \u201ctotally misleading and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen],\u201d Tracy warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrc.org\/articles\/networks-embrace-catastrophic-warnings-latest-ipcc-report\">Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Research Center reports:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-bT0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}