Go ahead and laugh Republicans, but record snowfall IS from Global Warming.

[Mugsy]

Crossposted via "Mugsy's Rap Sheet":

The North East is currently suffering its THIRD blizzard in two months. Giddy conservative Global Warming deniers like Jim Inhofe (R-OK) were photographed building an "igloo" in his front yard with his grandchildren, mockingly calling it "Al Gore's new home." Sean Hannity of Fox "News" claimed on his show Monday night that the North East snowstorms "seem to contradict Al Gore’s hysterical Global Warming theories". And Wednesday, that towering intellect known as Sarah Palin called global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’

I have but one question for all these "authorities" on climate science: WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL THAT MOISTURE CAME FROM?

Breaking News: It's not Winter EVERYWHERE, dipshits. El Nino, that massive buildup of warm water off the Pacific coast of South America... where it is currently SUMMER... is pumping Billions of gallons of evaporated seawater into the atmosphere, where the jetstream then carries it to the North East (where it is Winter) and falls as snow. If it were Summer, it would be pouring rain, but since it is Winter, it falls as snow.

Now, the deniers equate "snow" with "cold", thereby "contradicting" Global Warming. So I did a quick Google News search for "record low temperature" and found exactly ZERO reports of record cold associated with this blizzard. Meanwhile, Seattle just had its "warmest January in history", and Vancouver... home of next weeks Winter Olympics, is having to truck in snow from neighboring towns in time for the event.

While Ms. Palin is on the road belittling climate science, someone might want to ask her why the Kuskokwim River ice road in South Western Alaska is cracking up in December?

As I've explained here previously, there is a difference between "climate" and "weather". Florida has a warm "climate", but that doesn't mean it doesn't get cold there in the Winter.

In the 2006 movie "Jesus Camp", a mother that was homeschooling her children ridiculed reports that "global temperatures may rise by 7/10th of a degree..." "Doesn't sound like very much, does it?", she says snarkilly to her children.

Is 7/10th of a degree very much? Ask an ice cube what the difference is between 32' degrees and 32.7' degrees.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Their argument is so lame it doesn't warrant a reply

They are grasping for straws.

Your last sentence is classic.

[Mugsy]

4. Link the post.

If you can, link the post to your Facebook or Twitter pages (visit blog for link).

Thx.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Intelligent people know that. It's the goofus who deny it like

"Senator Inertia" (deliberate spelling) of the goofus from Oklahoma.

[groovedaddy]

3. Ignorance is a natural human state for which there is a cure. Ignorance based policy making

can produce deadly results.
It is one thing to be ignorant, as we ALL are to one extent or another, on any given subject. Ignorance combined with self-righteousness, however, is the basis of much human suffering. The right wing COUNTS ON this willful ignorance (and fear) to forward their agenda and not just on climate change.

[goclark]

5. K and R

[DCBob]

6. Meanwhile a record heat wave roasts Rio...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – The worst heatwave to hit Rio de Janeiro in 50 years turned the city into a pre-Carnival furnace Wednesday, and killed 32 elderly people further south, officials said. According to the Inmet national weather service, recorded temperatures in Rio were well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees) -- and felt more like above 50 degrees. "The heatwave in Rio is seen as historic. February right now is the hottest month for the past 50 years," meteorologist Giovanni Dolif told the O Globo daily.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_afp/brazilweatherheatwave_20100210212011

[Mugsy]

7. Not winter?

Isn't it Winter in Rio right now? /snark.

[Mugsy]

8. UPDATE: Beck tells Climatologists to stab themselves.

TP is reporting this morning that Glenn Beck thinks Climate scientists should knife themselves to death."

[Zoeisright]

17. Gee, BlecKKK, that's what I'd say to you.

That fucking tool is a waste of oxygen.

[PearliePoo2]

9. Thanks for this/ recommended too.

I just sent this little nugget/factoid out to all on my e-mail address book. :thumbsup:

[Brundle_Fly]

10. up here in toronto....

no snow... zilch nada.

last year we were under 50 inches

[Froward69]

11. Here in colorado we pay attention to "snowpack"

That is the snows depth and how compact it is... to determine how much moisture there is in a given year.

This morning I chatted with a denier... I approached it like i was teaching a kindergartner. I said the snow is deep there eh? he said yes. I said must be more moisture to accumulate that much snow? he said "for sure." I then said it takes alot of heat to evaporate that much moisture to make that much snow... he said "yes it does."

so global warming is evaporating more moisture into the atmosphere producing more snow. he said then if it getting warmer wouldn't it rain? not nessessarily I said the upper atmosphere is a damn cold place the tops of mountains stay snow capped year round.

he then placed his order and quit chatting with me.

[Loki]

12. Climate change has always been

more than most republican brains can grasp as a scientific concept. But most of their scientific concepts don't go beyond the "erth" being only 6,000 years old and man played with dinosaurs.

[raccoon]

13. "There is none so blind as he who will not see." Ran into one of them today. nt

[yellowcanine]

14. All true but it is a fucking waste of time to point it out. It is not facts the deniers are lacking.

It is the ability to understand the facts.

[Mugsy]

15. Infom those that aren't hopeless.

Convincing deniers with a financial stake in continuing to deny the obvious may be a lost cause, but the goal is to inform those who are AREN'T beyond hope.

Pass this story along to those still asking questions.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Ask any Canadian

If it's REALLY cold - it ain't snowing.

[OnyxCollie]

18. Perhaps it needs to be framed differently.

I would ask them, "Have you seen the movie, Armageddon? If you were in that movie, what role would you play? Would you be Bruce Willis' character? Or Ben Affleck's character? I think YOU'D BE NONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS! You wouldn't even be Steve Buscemi's character. You'd be some fucking idiot, listening to the radio and repeating talking points that deny the existence of an asteroid, saying 'This is just a way for Al Gore and those liberal scientists to make money.'"