Professor John Nielsen-Gammon, summing up his detailed critique of the 20-times-more-likely study that was in the news last week:

So, NOAA, now you have the more gullible members of the public believing that the heat wave really was proven to be 20 times more likely because of global warming, and we have the more skeptical members of the public believing that research produced by NOAA doesn’t even pass the smell test. At least you got good press coverage, and all publicity is good publicity, right?

My advice to colleagues: Any science news report that is based on a press release should be presumed worthless.