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By Steven Mosher and Robert Rohde

Climate Depot's Morano on 'hottest' U.S. July claims: 'The Continental U.S. is only 1.6% of the surface of Earth, and they're drawing conclusions now about the whole globe' | Climate Depot

Morano: Global temps are currently below 15-year avg. -- 'Why aren't we looking at record cold and snow in S. Africa as a consequence of global cooling?. This is pure politics at play, & when you look atclaim of July being the hottest, if you look at actual thermometers that have been around since 1930s at least & compare them to today, the 1930s -- in particular, 1936 -- wins hands down'

Global Warming Sky Still Falling, CNN Assures | NewsBusters.org

The CNN piece concluded with a quote from Hansen’s Op-Ed that reads, “"The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.”

Or like the odds of hearing CNN give the other side of an issue than is still very much unsettled and beset with an ideological agenda disguised as science.