{"id":2334,"date":"2010-08-04T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2010-08-04T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:42:30","slug":"how-can-there-be-global-warming-if-its-snowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"How Can There Be Global Warming If It&#8217;s Snowing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago the rightist media was tripping all over itself to proclaim that Climate Change was a hoax. Their evidence was that in the midst of winter it was cold along the North Atlantic coast. Apparently they were snowed in so badly they couldn&#8217;t get weather reports from anywhere else in the world, like Australia which was suffering from record high temperatures and drought. And therein lies the problem. These climate deniers are so stupid that they repeatedly mistake weather for climate. This is what they were saying at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries uncle.&#8221; <i>Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s breaking Al Gore&#8217;s heart because the snow is also burying his global warming theory.&#8221; <i>Eric Bolling, Fox News<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting [&#8230;] that people are going, &#8216;how can there be global warming if it&#8217;s snowing and it&#8217;s fairly cold?&#8217; &#8221; <i>Steve Doocy, Fox News<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[It] must send chills up the spines of global warming adherents, for whom this winter has been marked by discontent.&#8221; <i>Washington Times<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just another nail in the coffin of this whole Global Warming thing.&#8221; <i>Rush Limbaugh<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is strange that he [Al Gore] has just disappeared in the largest snow fall in Washington, DC history.&#8221; <i>Glenn Beck<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At some point maybe somebody in the government will wake up and say, &#8216;Hey, it&#8217;s colder. It&#8217;s not hotter.'&#8221; <i>Ben Stein<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is some of the coldest air in this part of the country in 20 years. Proof that all of this hype over global warming could be just that &#8211; hype.&#8221; <i>Neil Cavuto, Fox News<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The temperature data for the month of June confirm that it was the hottest June EVER! So what I&#8217;m wondering is why haven&#8217;t these same phony meteorologists come forward to issue corrections and announce that Climate Change is a real and growing problem based on this chart for August 3, 2010:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Charts\/fox-heat-index.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Could it be because they are: 1) Hypocrites; 2) Liars; or 3) Idiots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago the rightist media was tripping all over itself to proclaim that Climate Change was a hoax. Their evidence was that in the midst of winter it was cold along the North Atlantic coast. Apparently they were snowed in so badly they couldn&#8217;t get weather reports from anywhere else in the world, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[473,1,8],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-BE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4870,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4870","url_meta":{"origin":2334,"position":0},"title":"FLASHBACK: Winter As Evidence That Climate Change Is A Hoax","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/12\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember way back in January when mysterious atmospheric conditions resulted in tiny flakes of frozen water descending from the heavens and covering everything in a blanket of white frost? 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The Fox Nationalists are clearly disturbed by the conspiracy theorists who believe that the truth about the 9\/11 attacks has not yet been told. Consequently they use that as an excuse to dismiss remarks by MSNBC's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Environment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Environment","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=473"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1521,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1521","url_meta":{"origin":2334,"position":3},"title":"Is Neil Cavuto Stupid, Lying, Or A Stupid Liar?","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/13\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Carrot Top of Cable news, Neil Cavuto, is at it again. He has dragged out his steamer trunk of props to advance the moronic notion that Global Warming is a fraud because it's colder in winter than summer. Note to Neil: Temperature does not equal Climate! 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