{"id":9927,"date":"2007-02-14T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9927.html"},"modified":"2007-02-14T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T16:08:40","slug":"pet-peeve-watch-snow-storms-dont-disprove-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/pet-peeve-watch-snow-storms-dont-disprove-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Peeve Watch: Snow storms don’t disprove global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed that a few conservative sites are excited<\/a> about this Drudge item from last night:<\/p>\n

House Hearing On ‘Warming Of The Planet’ Canceled After Ice Storm<\/p>\n

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”<\/p>\n

DC WEATHER REPORT: Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To add to the hilarity, Drudge also noted, “Maryville Univ. in St. Louis area canceling [sic<\/i>] screening of Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ because of a snowstorm.”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how the right came to settle on this as an effective denial strategy, but isn’t it time for the right to realize that winter storms do not disprove global warming?<\/p>\n

This has been going on for far too long now.
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\n* In late December, professional blowhard Bill Bennett<\/a> mocked Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, claiming that “half the people in the country” will “have to fight through snowstorms to watch this global warming thing.”<\/p>\n

* In January, NBC’s Willard Scott<\/a>, who purports to be a weatherman, said a snowstorm in Colorado cast doubt on global warming. The validity of the science “all depends on which side of the Mississippi [River] you’re hanging your hat,” Scott said.<\/p>\n

* A few weeks later, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto<\/a> began a segment by noting freezing temperatures in Texas, Arizona, and California and asking if these temperatures were “[p]roof that all this hype over global warming could be just that — hype?”<\/p>\n

We apparently don’t need to try and make these folks look foolish; they’re doing a fine job of it on their own. They genuinely seem to believe that a winter storm, during the winter, is enough to cast doubt on all available climatology science.<\/p>\n

For what’s it’s worth<\/a>…<\/p>\n

As Media Matters for America has noted, weather in a portion of the United States is not indicative of whether the Earth is warming. As the National Climatic Data Center noted in its preliminary 2006 report, “[f]ollowing the warmest year on record for the globe in 2005, the annual global temperature for 2006 is expected to be sixth warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880.” That report also noted that “the 2006 annual average temperature for the contiguous United States (based on preliminary data) will likely be 2 [degrees] F (1.1 [degrees] C) above the 20th Century mean, which would make 2006 the third warmest year on record.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it me, or do you sometimes get the sense that policy debates with our conservative friends just can’t work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed that a few conservative sites are excited about this Drudge item from last night: House Hearing On ‘Warming Of The Planet’ Canceled After Ice Storm The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}