September seem a bit nippy? That's cuz global warming is a hoax.

Although I don't check in with Matt Drudge's screaming headlines too much myself, it's always fun to stumble across his special brand of hard news elsewhere on the Net. The headline from the site read as follows (subtle italics his):

September 2006 U.S. temperature 0.7 degrees below 20th century average...

Armed with logic and facts, Think Progress steps into the breach:

Global warming does not mean there is never going to be a cold day or a cold month somewhere on the globe. Globally, September 2006 was the 4th warmest on record.

Second, Drudge leaves out this crucial fact from the NOAA report he links to:

The January-September 2006 combined temperature is warmest on record. The previous record warm January-September happened in 2000.

In other words, according to the NOAA report Drudge cites, there has never been a warmer year in the United States so far than 2006.

What continues to amaze me about right-wing media is how much the purveyors depend upon the ignorance of their audience. But here's Drudge floating a nutty right-wing talking point that's refuted in the very article he links to-- and I don't think he's struggling to make ends meet.