Thursday, March 05, 2009

Unintentionally funny rant suggests CO2 causes snowstorms

Cherry Creek News - Climate Insanity You Can Believe In
...conservatives led by Sen. James Inhofe's (R-OK) environmental communications director Marc Morano mocked the students for protesting on the same day a snowstorm hit Washington, D.C. "Big DC Snowstorm to Greet 'Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.!'" wrote Morano. After his message was copied on the Drudge Report, Fox News anchors ran with the story. "Now, maybe it's just a coincidence that nearly every global warming protest occurs on the exact same day that we have a major snowstorm," claimed Fox News's Sean Hannity. Neil Cavuto asked, "As a massive snowstorm wreaks havoc up and down the East Coast, what better time to hold a global warming protest?"

THE ANTHROPOCENE: Of course, extreme weather is no coincidence.
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... "The climate instability factor right now is a big issue," Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) told 538.com. "Weather's unpredictable in Montana anyway but it’s really unpredictable now."

WEATHER DISASTERS RISE: The winter storm that swept up the East Coast with rain, snow, and ice caused 350 car crashes in New Jersey, a 15- mile-long traffic jam in North Carolina, and four deaths from car accidents in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Long Island. Hundreds of thousands of households lost power from Georgia to Maine. This extreme storm is only part of the destructive weather gripping the nation.

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