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Wingnut Watch: October Snow Ends Climate Change Debate


New Yorkers make their way through falling snow.
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By Julian Brookes
POSTED: October 31, 12:48 PM ET

Via Media Matters [ http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110290006 ]: It's snowing in October – so, sorry, that pretty much sews up the case against climate change. How could the planet be warming if it's getting colder? Thus, the logic of Fox News Eric Bolling, who tweeted as follows on Saturday, as snowflakes blanketed the Northeast: "Hey, Al Gore ... earliest snowfall in NYC since the Civil War ... where's your global warming now, see?" Bolling followed this up with a segment on his Fox Business show gleefully citing the snowstorm as evidence that climate change is bogus. There's a lot to be said about this, but let me just quote Andrew Freedman over at the Washington Post, who writes:

"Snowtober” occurred during a year in which the U.S. has already suffered a record number of billion dollar weather disasters, including Irene, spring flooding along the Mississippi River, and the ongoing Texas drought. Scientific evidence continues to mount that certain types of extreme weather events, including heavy precipitation events (both heavy rain and snow) are becoming more common and severe due to global warming.

According to Wunderground’s Burt [ http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1978 ], although early and late season snowfalls should decrease as the world warms, “the climate models also predict that we may see an increase in the intensity of the strongest winter storms, like the Nor’easter that dumped the record October snows over the Northeast on Saturday, and it is important to realize that snow is not the same thing as cold. Temperatures in the Northeast U.S. were quite cold on Saturday, but no observing station there broke a record for coldest temperature for the day on October 29, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Our climate is still cold enough in October to give us the occasional early-season record snowstorm.

FYI, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [ http://www.ipcc.ch/ ] is coming out with a special report on climate change and extreme weather events on November 18.

In other wingnutty news:

• The justly beleaguered Pat Buchanan is on record as saying women are "less equipped psychologically" to succeed in TV journalism. [Media Matters]
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110310003

• Ten reasons Christians shouldn't vote for Mitt Romney [WorldNetDaily via Right Wing Watch]
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=361029
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-624

• The radical roots of Mississippi's anti-choice "personhood" amendment [Rachel Maddow Show]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45084482

• A new mini-documentary on the conservative uber-funders the Koch Brothers [ThinkProgress]

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/29/356067/the-1-has-a-stranglehold-on-politics-new-al-jazeera-documentary-sheds-light-on-the-koch-brothers/

Copyright ©2011 Rolling Stone (emphasis in original)

a comment:

John Hartz
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
Ancient Native American Proverb

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/wingnut-watch-october-snow-ends-climate-change-debate-20111031 [with comments]


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