Pigs fly: Fox News reports on the consequences of climate change

Shauna Theel at Media Matters reports that Fox News is equating severe weather with climate change as "power disruptions that were caused by Superstorm Sandy" will become more frequent across the country as a result of climate change, according to a new report from the Department of Energy.

Seeing is believing:

           

Sure the Fox News reporter felt the need to tack on the inane disclaimer that "there are those that are skeptical of climate change and feel that a lot of the data out there has been sort of bloated a little bit." But this segment is a big step forward for a network that once directed its reporters to cast doubt on the basic fact that the planet has warmed and has misled its audience in 93 percent of its coverage according to an analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The report in question, released July 11, found that our unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions will lead to more power disruptions, and noted that many of these impacts are already being felt -- drought in Texas, wildfires in the Southwest, flooding in the Midwest, and other events connected to climate change have caused blackouts and billions of dollars of damage.

Does this mean that the era of misinformation and denialism regarding climate change is over? Have the right-wingers noticed that contrary to their actions in the past, they have suddenly realized that they inhabit the same planet as the rest of us and there is nowhere else to go?