With what must be one of their more obtuse headlines, Fox Nation
misrepresented a recent study on the impact of climate change on
the world's crops, proclaiming that it showed "No Global Warming
In North America": Got that? The globe is not warming in North
America -- just like the United States doesn't have an
unemployment problem in North Dakota. What's more is that the
study Fox Nation refers to doesn't actually contend that there
have been no global warming effects in North America. Here, Fox
is echoing an Ottawa Citizen headline which stated: "Climate
change hardly visible in North America: Canada U.S. buck trend,
scientists say." This too is a misrepresentation of the
research. In fact, the study examined only crop-producing
regions and only during the growing seasons of corn, rice,
maize, and wheat.The research indicated that those specific
regions in the U.S. have not seen the same warming trend evident
in global average temperatures over the past 30 years. (Indeed,
no climate scientist would say the