Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Speaking of lies of the year:

 

Where'd that come from?

 

National Review. (To answer the natural follow-up question, I saw it on Twitter.)

 

God forbid anyone think you read National Review! That would have really damaged your street cred.

 

Miami Underwater

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of this century. The United States Army Corps of Engineers projects that they could rise by as much as five feet; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts up to six and a half feet.

To cope with its recurrent flooding, Miami Beach has already spent something like a hundred million dollars. It is planning on spending several hundred million more. Such efforts are, in Wanless’s view, so much money down the drain. Sooner or later—and probably sooner—the city will have too much water to deal with. Even before that happens, Wanless believes, insurers will stop selling policies on the luxury condos that line Biscayne Bay. Banks will stop writing mortgages.

 

Pretty dumb graph, whether it's scaled properly (it's not) or not.

 

I'm going with "Hands up, don't shoot." It only hit No. 2 on the Washington Post's ranked list of top lies of 2015, behind Trump watching Muslims celebrate the falling of the Twin Towers (don't worry, everyone, Hillary made the list, too), but I think the greater impact of "Hands up" will push it over the top.

The biggest Pinocchios of 2015

The 12 biggest whoppers of 2015, ranked

 

Nope, because if you had longer than a three-word attention span, you would have seen his full quote, in which he said they weren't taking additional territory as they had been.

 

You must really enjoy talking to yourself.

 

Not taking additional territory doesn't mean a whole lot to the good people of Paris and San Bernardino.

 

"Hands up, don't shoot" was 2014.

 

No shit, Sherlock. But these are two different discussions. As much as you hate to believe it, everything is not Black/white either/or.