by Stacy Feldman -
Feb 16th, 2010
Some proponents of climate science are on a public relations drive to restore public confidence in the consensus that Earth is heating up, after critics seized on blizzards in the American Northeast, claiming they were evidence of global cooling.
Speaking to reporters, Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and founder of the Weather Underground web site, said that one extreme weather event, like a record-breaking snowfall, does not change the reality of climate change.
"Record snowstorms being evidence against global warming is just not true," said Masters, whose site gets 18 million visitors per month.
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