It has become an embarrassing national embarrassment regarding the Obama administration's allergic reaction to truth and facts...and climate science has not been spared from the White House dishonesty...a very recent example is the Obama claim that U.S. wildfires are worse...even NPR points out the inevitable Pinocchio.....
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As this NPR article documents (click on image), modern U.S. western region wildfire occurrence (and severity), despite the huge increase atmospheric CO2, is below what took place during historical and ancient times.
The latest research, including the three new studies cited by NPR, is unequivocal about this.
Yet the Obama White House and its science "advisor" tout recent wildfire anecdotal stories without a single reference to the actual empirical evidence of the past - and even no mention of the modern wildfire evidence.
Ahem...that for most people is known as 'lying,' plain and simple. Surprised?
Previous severe/exteme weather articles.