More dishonesty from the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang.

It was really hot in Oklahoma yesterday and the WaPo tried to make it sound (Web | PDF) like the earliest 100F day in Oklahoma since record keeping began in the 1880s.

The WaPo goes on to blame climate change:

But note the double underline in the first clip — “on the date”, i.e, March 26.

As written, the WaPo is carefully saying that it was the first 100F day on March 26 on record.

Despite the WaPo’s precise wording, the obvious implication is that it was the earliest 100F day on record in Oklahoma.

But that is wrong and the WaPo knows it.

If you click on the link in the clip (the word “record”), you are taken to this tweet from Oklahoma Mesonet, a joint weather reporting project between the University of Oklahoma and the state of Oklahoma.

The tweet says that the earliest 100F day in recorded Oklahoma history was on March 18, 1907 — 113 years and about 120 ppm CO2 ago.

So why was it so hot then?

And isn’t March 18 more than a week before March 26?

Never trust a climate bedwetter.

Here’s another whopper from the WaPo’s Capital Weather Gang.