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Saturday Night Live (or Mel Brooks, for that matter) could never find someone to play Al Sharpton who would be as funny as the real deal himself. Here is Al on his show, Politics-Nation, donning a white lab coat and trying to mock Fox News for pointing out that all this talk about Global Warming doesn't jive with the record cold temperatures back east.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/04/al-sharpton-in-lab-coat-behind-bubbling-test-tubes-lectures-on-right-wing-meltdown-over-global-warming/
(I'm surprised there wasn't an explosion.)
Why hasn't someone at MSNBC ever told Al that he doesn't need to shout? He has a microphone.
Check the NOAA reports that a possible cause of this cold snap is indeed global warming. Squid won't agree, but Squid has acknowledged that climate is at best a complex subject, which does not fit neatly into ideological categories.
ReplyDeleteNormally, there is a polar vortex at this time of year, arctic chilled air whirling around at up to 100 miles per hour. But, it is quite possible that increased global temperatures caused the vortex to break up, whipping cold arctic air down to lower latitudes.
Nope, that's not a proven fact, its a plausible conclusion from the facts we do know. It doesn't show that Climate Change is a real and imminent concern. It does show that Gary's and Fox News's juvenile jumping to amateurish conclusions doesn't hold water.
Now, could we let the scientists do some more work before we cry "Fiat!"???
@ Siarlys
ReplyDeleteYes Siarlys, I saw the movie "Day After Tomorrow" as well. It was good entertainment, as is the Warmers delusions. But, it was based on fantasy, just as the rest of the Warmer science. And yes, I do disagree with the findings of the academically dishonest scientists who shovel this stuff in order to get their grants and study money.
Squid, Ph.D.
Sharpton, the mad scientist. Reminds me a little of Igor in a way?? What a clown.
ReplyDeleteSharpton isn't a scientist at all, he's a politician, as is, e.g., Tom Coburn. (Coburn is a doctor, but that makes him an expert in his own field, not in every field, and he is, first and foremost, a politician).
ReplyDeleteSquid, "The Day After Tomorrow" is indeed fiction in many ways, not excluding the portrayal of a Dick Cheney like character admitting that he was wrong. It was drama, not science.
But there has been science for some decades which suggests that ice ages began with a century (not an afternoon, a day, a week, or a month) or so during which so much snow fell that it didn't all melt in the summer, and continued to pile up year to year over a broad area. That's different than mile high glaciers grinding their way slowly down from the poles.
Only after the packed snow forms glaciers did other processes take over. Further, there was a study (again long before "climate change" became an issue) which suggested that whenever the waters of the Arctic and the north Atlantic rose above a certain level, the mix of waters produced a marked increase in precipitation opening a new ice age.
My point was not "Hey y'all, its all true. Deal with it!" My point was, there are facts that need to be considered, studied some more, and some prudent measures considered while the research continues. Writing it all off as "academically dishonest" by fiat, without the slightest shred of data or analysis, is ideologically motivated, not science.
In the Pinelands in southern New Jersey, state foresters have been battling the southern pine beetle. The beetle can tunnel through a tree’s bark, eating a layer of tissue that supplies the tree with critical nutrients. Until recently, the beetles, which are native to the southern United States, did not survive north of Delaware, because of the cold. But that has changed as winters have turned milder.
ReplyDeleteThe past century in New Jersey has seen a warming trend of 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. More important than average temperatures in the beetles’ spread is the lack of periodic cold snaps in which the temperature plunges to minus 8 degrees.
The Pinelands have not experienced that kind of cold since 1996, and the first southern pine beetles were detected several years later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/experts-cheer-the-deep-freeze-as-a-killer-of-invasive-insects.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article
Is that right?
ReplyDeleteLike with the beetles, I guess this must also be what is causing armadillos (aka possum on the half-shell when you see a road kill)to infest, and roadrunners to increasingly populate, southern Missouri??
ReplyDeleteToo many inconvenient truths for you to handle today, Gary?
ReplyDeleteYes, elwood, Armadilloes moving north likely means they find the weather is warming to their preferred temperature range farther north than it used to.
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