Although the science may be on the side of climate change, blaming one particular weather incident on global warming is just as misleading as saying that a cold winter disproves it. "I don't think anybody in the climate change community had even heard the word 'derecho' before last week," says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies...Flashback: Did Michael Mann just learn the word "derecho", then quickly decide that the most recent one was caused by trace amounts of carbon dioxide?
"Most people don't assimilate global statistics or long-term trends -- you feel what's going on by the weather," says NASA's Schmidt. "When weird weather happens, a lot of people just instinctively think its climate change."
Friday, July 06, 2012
I bet Bastardi loves this quote by Gavin Schmidt: "I don't think anybody in the climate change community had even heard the word 'derecho' before last week"
Atmosphere of Distortion - By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy
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And I be alot of them have never heard of Dunning Krueger, which is what many of them show overwhelming symptoms of.. confidence that comes from ignorance of actual events that can challenge them.
Ignorance of Derecho's is small beans with these people
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