Claim: ‘The first eight months of 2012 had the most extreme weather in U.S. since such record-keeping began in 1910’
Rebuttal: 'Most of the extreme weather from the index was mild temperatures during the winter and spring. 2012 has been very quiet for hurricanes, tornadoes and floods. The drought was nowhere near as bad as 1988 (did the Mississippi River dry up this year?) The heat was nowhere near as bad as 1936, 1934 or 1901'
