Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’

[ProSense]

Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’

In other news, this past month of January was the warmest on record for the planet.

The Republican Party is filled with morons.

[Cha]

1. They're fucking idiots..it's Global Climate Change

and the Ice Caps are melting, MOFOs.

[timeforpeace]

8. When did it change from Global Warming?

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. When the term "Global Warming" became too hard to defend. n/t

[timeforpeace]

12. Interesting. But has this been a recent terminology change? Last few months?

[Reterr]

14. See this is why discussing this sort of thing with RW idiots is so hard...

That is how science works...it is like that with smaller systems that are easier to characterize and holds for larger systems that are much more complex...
A hypothesis develops, is tested and changes over time as our understanding of it gets more sophisticated. But as far as the average RW moron or even some member of our dumbed down general public is concerned, this is scientists (that all powerful lobby) "fudging stuff or changing the story" etc.

These people do not have any idea about the history of scientific research, the way science works or anything except some sort of rugged libertarian disbelief in anything that cannot be simplified enough for the comprehension of their thick-headed selves...sigh...

[timeforpeace]

21. If you don't have the "warming" part anymore, it's all over, y'know? Game over. Give it up.

[Forkboy]

37. I've showed you the warming part in 2 seperate threads now.

You ignore it and parrot RW talking points.

If you don't have the scientific knowledge part anymore, it's all over, y'know? Game over. Give it up.

[Cha]

16. No, when it was realized that this was a more accurate description..

The only ones who are attacking it are ignorant teabags and those getting paid by oil leeches.

"Climate Change or Global Warming?
“The phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures.”

The National Academies
More information"

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

[timeforpeace]

20. Silly, isn't it. Not a soul on the planet will argue that the climate doesn't change.

[Cha]

22. That's not what is being discussed.

Global Climate Change sure as hell is not silly.

[timeforpeace]

23. The term is downright silly and will be mocked if the general public hears about the terminology

change. Bottom line, public policy won't be changed or made as a result of fears of "climate change". It's dull and pretty meaningless, and yes, silly.

[Cha]

35. No worries, intelligent people get it..I'm not

surprised at all that you don't.

[Forkboy]

38. Well maybe you should educate yourself and them instead of giving in to their, and your, ignorance.

Just a though, y'know?

[Forkboy]

15. Climate: 2009 Caps Hottest Decade on Record

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Decade/climate-2009-caps-hottest-decade-record/story?id=9283733

I know it pains you to say anything good about Democrats (though oddly you seem to like defending Republicans like Palin...shock of shocks), but do try to keep up lest you look an even bigger troll than you already do.

[dionysus]

27. !!!

:spray:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Forkboy]

40. Oddly enough, this is the 2nd time I've shown timeforRWtalkingpoints this data.

He somehow ignores it but continues his confab with others.

Have I ever mentioned how much I despise cowards? :)

[Ter]

29. It was also a cool summer in many places

Unusually cool in the Northeast.

[Forkboy]

33. Trends mean more than isolated seasons.

[donheld]

31. Don't bother

You can't teach fools much

[Cha]

36. I can see that.

[Forkboy]

39. It's timeforgranite.

:)

[Wilms]

2. Hey, if I were THAT ignorant, I'd probably be proud of it, too. n/t

:shrug:

[DCBob]

3. The conservative brain has a hard time understanding trends..

Genetic flaw I presume.

[ohiodemocratic]

4. what did they say when it was announced that 2009 was the 2nd warmest year recorded

And that the last decade was the warmest decade ever: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/temp-analysis-2009.html

As others have pointed out, Virginia is not a planet.

[4lbs]

5. Heck, I remember several years ago when Dennis Miller made an appearance on Leno.

He said he didn't believe in global warming / climate change because the average temperature of the Earth has increased by just a half-degree in the last 100 years. So therefore, there can't be any warming.

He, like his fellow Repukes, don't truly understand what "climate change" means.

It means that the summers get hotter and drier, and that the winters, especially the winter storms, get much worse.

It means that my part of the country, San Diego, experienced severe thunderstorms with high winds several weeks ago and for the first time in my memory, we had tornado warnings for San Diego County.

Tornadoes! In San Diego?

[ngant17]

6. The Earth's climate is a non-linear dynamic system

and I would be very surprised if any Republican would have enough intelligence to understand the Butterfly effect, as noted by MIT meteorologist Lorenz in "Deterministic non-periodic flow" (1963).
A complex, non-linear system may display chaotic behavior. The behavior of the system is critically dependent on very small changes of the initial conditions. IOW, nonlinearity can lead to chaos.

The basic fact is that the Earth's climate system is non-linear. That means that there is no simple proportional relation between cause and effect. Yes, Virginia, there is global warming.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Not only do they not understand non-linear dynamic systems

They actively believe that the very notion of a non-linear dynamic system is made-up for the sole purpose of denying the existence of God.

They're fucking idiots.

[timeforpeace]

13. Hell, they don't even understand molecular nanotechnology!

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Well, you're one of them, so...

[GoCubsGo]

7. That headline should read..

"Virginia GOP Too Stupid to Know the Difference Between Weather and Climate."

Wow. It's the first week of February, and there's a big snowstorm. Yep, Global Warming is a fallacy, for sure.

:sarcasm:

[onehandle]

11. Our freezer is a near constant zero degrees. Al Gore is such a moron! nt

[Arkana]

17. Global warming? Well guess what, libs...it's currently COLD OUTSIDE.

The GOP is just so, so fucking stupid.

[AspenRose]

19. I wonder what would happen if someone told him it was summertime in Australia

right now. Do you think his head would explode?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

24. Global Warming (or Global Climate Change)

does NOT necessarily mean that it's going to stop snowing (in places where it normally happens) but it does mean that, globally, climate is getting more wacky and a little more intense. The continued existence of snow in places like Virginia is NOT evidence that global warming doesn't exist. Idiots. :banghead:

[zulchzulu]

25. Mixing up current weather with climate trends over a time period is a common mistake of...

...climate change deniers.

I like to point out to such people that they need to be congratulated for somehow having more knowledge on climate change than scientists at NASA.

[inthebrain]

26. I usually ask them to explain how all that "Snow" got up into the atmosphere

I've never gotten an answer from them on that.

Heat creates the basic energy of any storm. Not to mention allows all that moisture to get into the atmosphere.

[Ter]

28. I'll show you 12 inches of global warming

:)

[TrogL]

30. Repeat after me "It's not that the weather gets warmer, it gets crazier"

[malletgirl02]

32. At work

I hear this stupid argument a lot. The last time was last Friday at work when the the time sheet lady made a joke about Al Gore and global warming in response to the coming snow. I wanted to say something about the difference between climate and weather, but I didn't.

[LatteLibertine]

34. They should

get together with Rush the next time he feels like talking about bending over and grabbing his ankles.

[Forkboy]

41. Kick, because apparently it isn't just the GOP filled with morans.