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From: Wharf Rat9/7/2016 11:30:40 AM
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Fox News Briefly Claimed Climate Change Was Real, Then Changed Their Mind
What a beautiful few seconds it was.

Fox News is pretty convinced that climate change is a hoax. There's a climate change section on foxnews.com primarily devoted to reporting on the supposed government persecution of climate "skeptics." There's little about the actual global issue, beyond a story on the climate pact reached by the United States and China.

But for a brief moment this past weekend, Fox News acknowledged that climate change is real and we are already experiencing the consequences. MediaMattersreports that foxnews.com published a story about Hurricane Hermine on September 4 that was syndicated from the Associated Press. That piece cited two climate scientists, including Michael Mann of Penn State, on how climate change would likely make the hurricane more destructive.

The passage looked like this:

Forecasters expected Hermine to regain hurricane force on Sunday as it travels up the coast before weakening again to a tropical storm by Tuesday. And since sea levels have risen up to a foot due to global warming, the storm surges pushed by Hermine could be even more damaging, climate scientists say.

Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University noted that this century's one-foot sea-level rise in New York City meant 25 more square miles flooded during Superstorm Sandy, causing billions more in damage. "We are already experiencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm," said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University. "And it's only the beginning."

And just like that, it was gone. Once foxnews.com "assumed ownership" of the article by changing the byline from the AP, MediaMatters reports, the section concerning climate change was soon removed in a fairly comprehensive re-write.

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