The Daily Show Notes Irony of Koch-Funded Study Affirming Global Warming is Real

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Last night’s entire first segment ofย The Daily Showย focused on the recent study funded by the Koch Brothersย that confirmed (again)ย that climate change is indeed a reality – an ironic twistย given the Kochtopus’ track record of fueling the climate change denial echo chamber with upwards of $55ย million.

As described in an earlier piece on DeSmogBlog, โ€œThe [Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST)] paper, an effort to confirm or debunk whether the urban heat island (UHI) effect was skewing climate records, has affirmed – again – that global temperature records are accurate andย worrisome.โ€

In a manner that only John Stewart and hisย Daily Show team can, they unpacked the hilarious irony of the whole situation. The segment, roughly ten minutes long, is well worth watching for the laughs alone, especially the McRib-ing of the mainstream media’s pathetic coverage of climate science and fixation on corporate advertising ploys. And Aasif Mandvi’s interviews, of course. Watch the videoย below:

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Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world. He is an investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog.

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