I've argued for a while that we should make use of analogizing sports statistics with climate/weather data, and Media Matters shows it happening (the analogy starts about a minute into the video).
Difference here being that it's a sports journalist using climate change to explain sports, saying a single piece of contradictory data doesn't refute an overall trend. Just as a single cold day doesn't refute climate change, a single exciting basketball game doesn't refute a bad system for administering basketball.
I think it's a good thing though - reinforcing climate change as a culturally-accepted fact.
I's really like to see the whole climateball shooting match wound down into the annual radio broadcast of a cricket test between The Ecologist team, captained by Zak Goldsmith, and a Bishop Hill's Pilgrimage of Grace 11.
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