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A.P. Headline Turns Up the Heat

By Doug Powers • August 2, 2011 01:40 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

There are those who think that the “heat index” is just a way to make the temperatures sound higher than they are in order to help peddle the global warming theory, but the Associated Press has found a way to really inflate the number: Just take the Fahrenheit reading, mistake that for Celsius, and voilà… it’s a lot hotter:

Northeast braces for temps near boiling point

NEW YORK (AP) — The extreme heat that’s been roasting the eastern U.S. is only expected to get worse, and residents are bracing themselves for temperatures near and above boiling point.

Weather service heat warnings and advisories have been issued Friday from Ohio to Maine.

The high temperatures and smothering humidity will force up the heat indexes. Boston’s 99 degrees on Friday could feel like 105 degrees; Philadelphia’s 102 degrees like 114 degrees and Washington, D.C.’s 103 degrees may seem the same as a melting 116 degrees.

On the upside for you seafood fans, the oceans are apparently about to be loaded with freshly steamed lobster.

Milton Wolf has a screen-grab, but since the story has been unchanged for several days now, it may live on forever — or at least until cyberspace melts.

The good news is that, using the AP formula, this winter when it’s 10 degrees, it’ll really be 50 degrees.

Those AP fact-checkers must be preoccupied with digging into Sarah Palin’s next book or something.

**Written by Doug Powers

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#101

On August 3rd, 2011 at 2:13 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On August 02, 2011 at 08:09 pm, corkie said:

On August 2nd, 2011 at 2:23 pm, kentroyals5 said:

I think I’ve seen the heat index used so much more widely now than before. I like that they use it because it indicates the true danger to elderly, children, etc. It’s just not scientifically correct to compare the two as some use it interchangeably it seems.

Correct. It’s not scientifically correct to compare the two.

Unfortunately, many reporters are truly ignorant about anything the least bit scientific.

Most of them are ignorant about a lot of things.
#102

On August 3rd, 2011 at 9:04 am, Dexter Alarius said:

Not to worry! They obviously applied the “correction constant” developed by the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

Maybe the New York Stock Exchange can use the same mathematical principle to “hide the decline”?
#103

On August 3rd, 2011 at 9:26 am, GraniteMan said:

St Louis MO 1954…High 114. No heat index, direct thermometer reading, no air conditioning. Those were the good ole’ Ice Age readings.
#104

On August 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, spaceycakes said:

it’s hotter than a double-peckered billy goat
#105

On August 3rd, 2011 at 11:30 am, MacEamonn said:

On August 2nd, 2011 at 11:09 pm, corkie said:

Unfortunately, many reporters are truly ignorant about anything the least bit scientific.

Most reporters are “truly ignorant” period.
#106

On August 3rd, 2011 at 9:33 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

It’s not so much that they are pushing AnthropogenicGorebalWarming here, rather that this reveals their scientific ignorance. Said ignorance allow them to fall for AGW.