Warning Signs: Cognitive Disconnect: Cold Equals Warming

The latest example of the complete disdain the White House has for the public is a response by press secretary Robert Gibbs who dismissed the worldwide cold snap as just another example of “climate change”, the new term for “global warming.”
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It’s “cognitive disconnect”, a fancy way of saying that the White House and Congress is under the impression that Americans actually believe that “warming” means “colder” and colder “proves” that warming is happening.

Video: Cavuto's flawed "global warming alert": "It is freezing across the entire globe" | Media Matters for America

On his Fox News show, Neil Cavuto introduced a segment by saying, "This is our Fox News global warming alert for you," and falsely claimed that "[i]t is freezing across the entire globe"; guest Ben Stein later suggested that "maybe all this talk about global warming needs to be rethought" because of recent cold weather. In fact, contrary to Cavuto's suggestion, it is not colder than average across the entire globe, and climate scientists reject the notion that short-term changes in weather bear any relevance to the global warming debate.

American Red Cross Offers Cold Weather Tips

Bone chilling temperatures have gripped much of the country, and the Halifax-Charlotte County Chapter of the American Red Cross urges everyone to be safe and prepare as much as possible.

Flashback: Red Cross claims global warming as top humanitarian concern

The International Federation of the Red Cross has released the results of a survey on climate change, saying it is now the top humanitarian concern.

Red Cross helps as cold weather causes spike in house fires - WMBFNews.com | Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC | News, Weather, Sports

HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – The American Red Cross in Myrtle Beach has noticed that along with the long cold spell in the area, there has also been a spike in house fires.

Now we are in a “mini ice age” that proves global warming « Don Surber

The graphic that went with [David Rose's] article declared: “How North Pole headed south.”

Nebraska: Coldest since 1973.
Florida: Coldest since 1980.
Beijing: Coldest since 1970.
Scotland: Coldest since 1995.
Germany: Coldest since 1963.
Holland: Coldest since 1998.
Russia: Coldest 2001.

DAVID ROSE: The mini ice age starts here | Mail Online

In March 2000, Dr David Viner, then a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over the notorious ‘Warmergate’ leaked emails, said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’.

Now the head of a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: ‘We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything.

'This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event.’

The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.