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Shea Gunther

GOP fails basic climate science 101, again

In a sadly predictable move, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint cites Washington, D.C.'s Snowpocalypse 2010 as proof that climate change is an Al Gore-inspired hoax. Science hurts Sen. Demint's brain.

Wed, Feb 10 2010 at 12:34 PM EST
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There are few certain things in life — death and taxes being perhaps the most famous constants.
 
Add this one to the list: anytime it's particularly cold or snows more than usual, some ignorantly smug climate change denialist will publicly chortle and ask "where are your global warming gods now!?"
 
The Drudge report loves to pair extreme winter weather headlines with headlines about global warming.
 
Matt Drudge is famous for pairing a headline about an extreme winter weather event with a snarky headline panning climate change (see above for example). Global warming denialists falsely equate weather with climate (climate = weather X time) when it suits their PR spin; you never hear them talking about global warming being an Al Gore-inspired hoax during summer heat waves.
 
After Washington, D.C., just got buried by Snowpocalypse 2010, everything in the city shut down — 42 inches of snow will do that to the best of cities. One of the events canceled was a Senate hearing on climate change. That was enough to fire up the whole gaggle of climate change denialists and will keep them busy for the next few days. Republican Sen. Jim DeMint got extra points for working in Al Gore when he tweeted "It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries 'uncle'".
 
It would be kind of funny if we weren't talking about the people who write all the big rules. Political considerations trump actual science far too often, especially when we're talking about climate change.
 
Just to be clear: snow and cold doesn't disprove the reality of global warming, even if it's really, really cold and snowy.
 
 
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Calendar 02/10/2010 13:02 PM

It is not going to get hotter. It is going to get colder. On the calendar of the Great Year in astronomy it shows that winter is coming, an ice age.
It is easy enough for a child to figure out. A child looks at a calendar and is told that all calendar are made to predict weather. Then the child is asked if it snowed in January of this year, what weather should you expect in January of 2011?
It is the same with the calendar of the Great Year which spans 26,000 years. It is for weather..... More

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Travis 02/10/2010 12:29 PM

I am a geologist and an envirnmental scientist. Global warming and global cooling are certainties of Earth's climate patterns for the past, present, and future. We as humans have very little to do with it. That fact that we're so self-centered and self serving that we actually can compete with the natural forces of the sun and orbital patterns of the Earth is ammusing at best and terrifying at worst. I have downloaded the same ice core data that Al Gore uses in his arguments and the.... More

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CommieBlaster 02/10/2010 12:05 PM

FLASH!!

This Brand New Video Blows a Huge Gaping Hole in Obama's Cap and Tax Scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVm5-6H_sH4

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