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The Daily Mail's Funhouse Story on Climate Change

Discover why the Daily Mail online newspaper is controversial for its take on climate change and factual inaccuracies by the UK Met Office.

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As Slatenoted last year, the UK's Daily Mail is "the world's most popular online newspaper." It's not exactly a news you can use publication. Imagine if you crossed the New York Post (and its worst tendencies) with the National Enquirer and maybe throw in a splash of Weekly World News. That's the Daily Mail. So the headlines on any given day highlight the most heinous, bizarre, and ass-clownish aspects of humanity. Imagine a newspaper that covered the world as if it was one big freak show. That's the Daily Mail. Then there is its pseudo-serious side, where typists write stories about serious subjects, like climate change. It so happens that one of Britain's most famous tabloid typists, James Delingpole, has a byline in the Daily Mail today, in which he pronounces:

Without fanfare — apparently in the desperate hope no one would notice — it [the UK's Met Office] has ...

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