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JHan

(10,173 posts)
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 07:17 PM Jan 2019

Look at this embarrassing fucking moron.

Among the many joys of the Trump Era is the knowledge that if it is cold somewhere, odds are the President of the United States will crow that it's proof climate change is not real. Yes, the world's most powerful man has, over and over again, treated the fact that it's cold outside as evidence that the idea the planet is getting warmer is not the result of decades of work by hundreds of scientists across dozens of countries, but is in fact a hoax cooked up by the Chinese. Like the views of Senator James Inhofe, who once threw a snowball on the floor of the Senate to disprove a global historical phenomenon, this operates on the premise that climate scientists say it will never again be winter.


A dangerous cold front is sweeping the midwest this week, so it was time for another Official Message from the President uniquely calibrated to once again make the whole world dumber.
We can explain how climate is not the same as weather. We can run through how 2018 was hotter than any year on record, in terms of global temperatures, except for three: 2015, 2016, and 2017. We could mention how 2018 was the hottest year on record for the planet's oceans, and the previous hottest ever was 2017. The top five hottest years for ocean temperature have occurred since 2014. But what's the point? Like the phony Republican concern about the national debt Trump has opted to completely ignore, he honestly does not care because he'll be dead when the shit hits the fan. It's just reactionary bullshit, and Stephen Colbert put paid to it years ago better than anyone.


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26077427/trump-tweet-midwest-cold-global-warming/





Stephen Colbert

@StephenAtHome
Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: World hunger is over because I just ate.
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Look at this embarrassing fucking moron. (Original Post) JHan Jan 2019 OP
K and R for S Colbert Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #1
Even my deplorable co worker agreed that his little climate change 'jokes' are getting quite old UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #2
Kicking and recommending ffr Jan 2019 #3
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #4
Is it worth mentioning that the warming arctic pushes the jet stream south? question everything Jan 2019 #5
Perfect!!!! spanone Jan 2019 #6
Global Climate Change is Happening. Kick for Colbert! Cha Jan 2019 #7
My Standard Response (Feel Free To Use It) ChoppinBroccoli Jan 2019 #8
K and R oasis Jan 2019 #9
 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
2. Even my deplorable co worker agreed that his little climate change 'jokes' are getting quite old
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 08:12 PM
Jan 2019

and are quite pathetic in nature.

The rump base is CRACKING!!!

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
8. My Standard Response (Feel Free To Use It)
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:13 AM
Jan 2019

Cold weather and snow in the winter prove there is no Global Warming. And birds and airplanes prove there is no gravity.

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