The Memo: December 15, 2010

Predictably, right-wing media figures are using cold weather in December as an excuse to mock, distort and attack climate science.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201012130014

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Glenn Beck
• Rush Limbaugh
• Global Warming
• Climate Change

[timdaughte]

The record snowfalls and rainfalls are precisely because of global warming. Hot air can hold more moisture, and it does. When the tempurature drops, more snow falls because the hotter atmosphere has more moisture stored in it. DUH! This is evidence of global warming that the ignorant right-wing spin is turning into disproof. Unfortunately, as we learned today, Fox "News" viewers can't understand simple facts and will agree with the ignorant hosts.  We're in serious trouble people.

[nidodson]

And once again, a group of ignorant people talking about climate change without understanding it at all. Next they should talk about absolute zero, super liquids, and quantum physics, because they are experts on that too, and everyone should listen to what they have to say. Then lets have them talk about evolution, and how it is completely fake, even though without it over half of modern medicine wouldn't exist,

[Francebrasil]

A network aimed at cretins..

[Richardisdorky]

I live in the Denver metro area. Over the last few years the winters have been much lighter. How do the folks a Faux News explain that away.

[PaulinaPaulino]

@drhu What don't I get?

-That I had to have been alive when Mt St Helen's erupted, or I am not qualified to speak about it?

-That you apparently don't know the difference between Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide?

-That you apparently do not know the difference between weather and climate?

You are right, I don't get that.

[drhu]

@PaulinaPaulino You don't get it.

[PaulinaPaulino]

@drhu No, I wasn't born when Mt St Helen's erupted. I also was not born when the Roman Empire fell, but, my presence pretty much had nothing to do with an examination of either event.

One that looks at the temporary spew of a small amount (relatively) of sulfur dioxide, a highly reflective substance that bounces sunlight back into space before it can warm the Earth to atmospheric carbon dioxide, and compares the effects to the overall change in climate is ingenuous at best, foolish at worst.

[drhu]

@PaulinaPaulino Were you even born when Mt St. Helen's occurred?

There were some really bad winters after that. You know why? All that stuff that got blasted into the upper atmosphere. Now..

Remember the other really long lasting volcanoes? Bad winters now huh? Not climate change.

[PaulinaPaulino]

@drhu following your discussion here, what I see is that drhu is trying to use isolated events to infer global phenomenon. "What Happened after Mt St Helen" has nothing to do with climate.

Here is a fun fact you can look up for homework:

What happens if the temperature in your state went up by 5 degrees?

What happens if the temperature of the globe goes up 5 degrees?

You will discover there are two entirely different outcomes.

[drhu]

@trippinlikegod Remember Mt St. Helen's?

Do you recall what happened after that?

[drhu]

@trippinlikegod So what happened to the "fever"?

[trippinlikegod]

@Bobsyouruncle33 I'd rather our production capabilities went down and a few factories went up in my town so there would be employment for the HUMANS not just the machinery.