December 14, 2010 9:13 am ET by Media Matters staff
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012140003
In a December 13 editorial, The Washington Times cited recent snow and cold temperatures to call global warming a “hoax.” As Media Matters has noted, scientists agree that short-term localized weather patterns are not relevant to global warming, and according to climate data centers, 2010 will rank among the hottest years on record.
From the Times’ editorial:
The roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome came apart Sunday after a blizzard dumped 17 inches of snow on top of the Minneapolis stadium. In the arena of public opinion, global-warming hucksters are seeing an even greater collapse under the weight of winter reality.
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Global-warming hysteria, for example, has made Al Gore an extremely wealthy man. Like other outspoken advocates of the global-warming hoax, Mr. Gore lives in oversized mansions, flies on private jets and generally demonstrates behaviors that suggest he doesn’t actually believe his own predictions of doom.
As a big chill sweeps the nation, hitting as far south as Atlanta and Mobile, Ala., policymakers in Washington should evict these rent-seeking global-warming mountebanks once and for all. The new majority in the House can start by repealing the bogus “green” technology subsidies, ethanol mandates and the ban on incandescent light bulbs. That would serve as a gift to the American people far more lasting and productive than a White Christmas.
who pays the rent for these guys???
They are currently stuck in the mud, but if they hang around long enough without going broke, perhaps they might get a truly hot year like 1934 sooner or later.
I must be missing some serious point. Are you saying than some cold weather disproves climate change?
And I’m sure you didn’t actually mean to state ‘Hot weather is climate’ because no climatologist or any sensible person with the slightest idea of the climate system for that matter, would ever say that. I’m sure you meant to say something like ‘trends caused by increaseing occurrence of hot weather measured globally over decades is climate’.
You must be Friggin Kidding!!!
Laz
“And I’m sure you didn’t actually mean to state ‘Hot weather is climate’ because no climatologist or any sensible person with the slightest idea of the climate system for that matter, would ever say that. ”
You are continually making points like this, yet you know full well that Gore, Romm and co keep on saying exactly this. Of course they are not scientists, but I have never heard Hansen + co criticising them and I somehow doubt whether you have written to Gore to correct him either.
LOL Good satire Lazarus! Funny stuff!