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PeggyKR

(177 posts) Sun Jan 5, 2014, 01:56 PM Jan 2014

If I want to know why it's so cold, I"ll ask a scientist, NOT Donald Trump!

Seriously...If I hear ONE more ignorant comment about climate change not being real because we're having a bad winter here in the Eastern part of the U.S., I am GOING TO SCREAM. It's all from a complicated jet stream that is pulling the melting Arctic ice and mass southward and dispersing it randomly in places it's not normally in. This is what SCIENTISTS know. If you want to understand more of the where and why of climate change...ask a SCIENTIST, not some narcissistic birther-freak like Donald Trump or Rush Limbaugh!

Meanwhile...halfway around the world in Australia, where it is summer right now, extremely high temperatures are setting records like crazy....I"m sure they're not laughing and making jokes about climate change.......GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

I will NOT be part of the disservice that making jokes and ignoring FACTS about climate change does to the environment, and my future and the future of this planet. Sorry.

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If I want to know why it's so cold, I"ll ask a scientist, NOT Donald Trump! (Original Post) PeggyKR Jan 2014 OP

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HA! PeggyKR Jan 2014 #2

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confusing weather with climate is their favorite thing to do n/t Coexist Jan 2014 #3

Follow the Ignorance...collect the $$ PeggyKR Jan 2014 #5

When it's especially warm they are silent treestar Jan 2014 #4

Keep 'em dumb PeggyKR Jan 2014 #7

I know. It's not like if it was 65 degrees we would have post after post here Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #6

Exactly! PeggyKR Jan 2014 #10

But on TV we can see it'll be cold for today's GB v. 49ers game ffr Jan 2014 #9

FACTS, SCHMACTS!!! PeggyKR Jan 2014 #11

Here's an interesting 2naSalit Jan 2014 #12

Is this a thread where science is respected and trusted? mathematic Jan 2014 #13

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PeggyKR

(177 posts)

2. HA!

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:07 PM

Jan 2014

Funny how that works...

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Coexist

(24,542 posts)

3. confusing weather with climate is their favorite thing to do n/t

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:07 PM

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PeggyKR

(177 posts)

5. Follow the Ignorance...collect the $$

Reply to Coexist (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:10 PM

Jan 2014

Oh many over there on the right...LOVE the ignorance. More corporate money in their pockets and votes in their favor. Makes me sick.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

4. When it's especially warm they are silent

Reply to PeggyKR (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:08 PM

Jan 2014

Righties always use current weather conditions or ignore them as convenient. It's one of their greater stupidities.

PeggyKR

(177 posts)

7. Keep 'em dumb

Reply to treestar (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:11 PM

Jan 2014

The dumber, the better is the way many like it..

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

6. I know. It's not like if it was 65 degrees we would have post after post here

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:11 PM

Jan 2014

saying that this "proves" global warming is real. Random weather fluctuations prove nothing.

PeggyKR

(177 posts)

10. Exactly!

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #6)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:29 PM

Jan 2014

It is still "winter" after all...and we haven't had one here in Chicago for YEARS...EXPLAIN THAT!!!

ffr

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9. But on TV we can see it'll be cold for today's GB v. 49ers game

Reply to PeggyKR (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:16 PM

Jan 2014

But no. You want to focus on facts instead. Really? Okay. Here you go.

Notice that there are lots of "record warmest, but not one "record coldest."

November 2013 global temperature highest on record Year-to-date global temperature ties for fourth highest on record

The globally-averaged temperature for November 2013 was the highest for November since record keeping began in 1880. November 2013 also marks the 37th consecutive November and 345th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average.

Many areas of the world experienced higher-than-average monthly temperatures, ... No regions of the globe were record cold. NOAA

PeggyKR

(177 posts)

11. FACTS, SCHMACTS!!!

Reply to ffr (Reply #9)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 02:30 PM

Jan 2014

Heaven forbid we care about.....FACTS.

2naSalit

(86,622 posts)

12. Here's an interesting

Reply to PeggyKR (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 04:48 PM

Jan 2014

and telling conversation about that...

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/theres-global-warming-and-its-snowing-105637955899

mathematic

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13. Is this a thread where science is respected and trusted?

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 05:00 PM

Jan 2014

Because it can get confusing. Let me see... global warming can be construed as opposing existing institutions of power or anti-capitalist, so I suspect it's "Good Science". On the other hand, this is the coldest winter I can remember and I'm tired of scientific materialists denying my experiences, like I'm stupid or crazy.

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