Rollingstone should stick to indi bands and not "Global Warming"

This month, scientists issued a new study concluding that global warming has dramatically increased the likelihood of severe heat and drought – days after a heat wave across the Plains and Midwest broke records that had stood since the Dust Bowl, threatening this year's harvest. You want a big number? In the course of this month, a quadrillion kernels of corn need to pollinate across the grain belt, something they can't do if temperatures remain off the charts. Just like us, our crops are adapted to the Holocene, the 11,000-year period of climatic stability we're now leaving... in the dust.

This is the last part of a paragraph that spanned five pages of rollingstone.com about "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" which takes the worst IPCC predictions and say, "It is all true, trust the scientists!" and even when quoting the scientists uses the proof of "over 40 computer models" to make their point.

This is not journalism, this is activism.  Now I know that RollingStone magazine isn't exactly "Nature" or "Annals of the American Chemical Association" but let us take a look at just this one paragraph, as I am too tired to handle the lot of it.

First off, the likelihood of severe droughts and heat has happened since the days of Joseph and the sojourning of the Hebrew people in Egypt.  Secondly, breaking records is what happens as time goes on, if we didn't think that it was so why would we have the Olympic games every 4 years?  Third, the temperature of the continental United States is NOT "Global Warming."

Fourthly, crop failure has happened again since the earliest records of humanity, this is nothing new.

And lastly, the Holocene has not been "climatic stability" by any stretch of the imagination, we had the Roman and Medieval warm periods and the Little Ice Age, where temperatures averaged hotter and colder than current.  The message that the current level of "warming" is unprecedented is only given by those who massage enough data to "hide the decline" or "get rid of the MWP" to dupe people into being scared enough to demand the change a would be policymaker desires.

You can read the whole piece here if you like, but it is full of propaganda and very little science.  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719