RE: Global Warming
July 20, 2011 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2011 at 6:38 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(July 20, 2011 at 4:33 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Whenever I think about climate change stupidity I am reminded of two years ago when we had an unusually large amount of snow, the guys at Fox News' morning program put Al Gore's book in the snow and said, "Where's your global warming now?" The goddamn idiots didn't realize that the heavy snow is actually more proof of global warming. Too many dumbasses think that global warming just means it's going to be hot all of the time when it actually means more extreme weather in winter and summer.
Even more basic than that is logic that you shouldn't need to be a meteorologist to understand. Using an anecdote of one specific location in freaking January to say, "look, snow, global warming is false" is stupid on two different levels. First, global warming is about AVERAGE GLOBAL temperatures (key words being in all caps). Second, even snowfall and the worst storms have become more mild.
On the latter note, if you want to talk about anecdotes, Fox Noise made a lot of hey about the snowstorm in DC last February. I watched that and said, "yeah, I remember a snowstorm that bad when I went to school in CD. We had two feet of snow and the city was shut down. I remember it because it was during Thanksgiving break, not during the winter. Fat chance of that happening today."
I have a full body snowsuit in my closet that I used to wear during the colder months in Louisville. It's been in the closet and only seen the light of day once since 93. A sweater is usually all I need. Snowfall used to begin sometime around Thanksgiving and continued until mid March. The snow during Christmas time was more often than not real, not the artificial kind. These days, it seems like we're a month behind schedule going from fall to winter. A couple dustings and maybe one solid snowfall is what passes for winter these days. /end anecdotal account.
(July 20, 2011 at 6:35 pm)edk141 Wrote: I'm a little bit confused. Are you guys saying that anyone who questions global warming and/or its causes is stupid, or just those who think global warming can't be happening because it's snowy?
The latter.
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