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Op-Ed: The TV Weather Heat Index Has Become a Climate Propaganda Tool

Every summer, TV meteorologists across the United States increasingly trumpet the “heat index” as an important headline number. But that figure -- the infamous “feels like” temperature -- is a calculated estimate, not the actual air temperature. Its overuse smacks more of sensationalism than scientific clarity. For example, WFLA in...

Every summer, TV meteorologists across the United States increasingly trumpet the “heat index” as an important headline number. But that figure — the infamous “feels like” temperature — is a calculated estimate, not the actual air temperature. Its overuse smacks more of sensationalism than scientific clarity. For example, WFLA in…

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