Masters: "2010 is now tied with 2007 as the year with the most national extreme heat records–fifteen" - As nation, Russia, and world swelter under record heat, NY Times' Tom Zeller publishes dreadful he-said/she-said, quote-mining piece

We now know that "After the hottest decade on record, it's the hottest year on record, seemingly the hottest week of all time in satellite record and we may be at record low Arctic sea ice volume."  In this country, we saw new daily high temperature records beat new cold records by nearly 5 to 1 in June.

Uber-meteorologist Jeff Masters reports today:

The year 2010 is now tied with 2007 as the year with the most national extreme heat records–fifteen.

Naturally, the New York Times is out with w...