How Drudge cherry-picks data to fit his global-warming-denying narrative

[mcablue]

Exactly a week ago, Matt Drudge posted a top-of-the-page headline that read "NOAA: Third Coldest October on Record..."
Two problems with that:

1) Drudge did not tell us that he's referring to one country, i.e. the United States of America, not the planet.
2) Drudge has not, and will not, post a link to today's news that the global temperature for October 2009 was the 6th warmest on record. Instead of extreme American cold October brought us extreme global heat. But Drudge, one of the worst "journalists" in the world, does not want you to know that. He will cherry-pick data and portions of the planet in order to insinuate that the world is cold. You don't hear scientists talking about "American warming" for a reason: Variations in one single country do not matter. The big picture matters.

-November 17, 2009. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the sixth warmest October on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides.

[Bitwit1234]

1. Drudge ho ho ho

He posts a headline. You go to the article and you think it is the wrong one, because it is nothing like the liberal bashing headline he posts.