I am so sick of right wingers saying "where is your global warming now"

[Hugabear]

It never fails. We get a bit of a cold snap, a snowstorm here, a blizzard there, and you can count on the neanderthals poking their heads out of their caves with their "haha, where's your global warming now dumbass" remarks. When you try to tell them that the Earth's climate is a very complicated and sophisticated system, that higher global average temperatures can actually lead to colder winters, they sit there and look at you with that stupid look on their face. They scratch their bellies for a couple of seconds before spouting off some insipid Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity inspired bullshit.

Then again, I would expect nothing more from the types of people who idolize the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. What? It's cold in January? In the Northern Hemisphere?

Morons.

[iamjoy]

2. Global Warming Is A Misnomer

it should be "global climate change."

anyway, don't bother trying to explain how global warming (climate change) could trigger an ice age to people who have the attention span of a gnat. when one of them asks you about "global warming" say "let's talk in July."

[Kaleva]

5. +1

[Cleita]

9. I agree.

On a personal, anecdotal level, I have noticed the change in climate in my area in the last decade. Things are noticeable in nature, the plants, the wild animals and quite honestly how often I have to water my garden.

[The Wielding Truth]

18. I had heard a climate expert say that it was more like "global weirding",because

the weather in some parts of the world would be cooler and rainier.

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/global_weirding/

[spanone]

3. ignorance

Experts: Despite cold snap, earth still warming

Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches.

Whatever happened to global warming?

Such weather doesn't seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all — it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend.

"It's part of natural variability," said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. With global warming, he said, "we'll still have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them."

Deke Arndt of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., noted that 2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years for Earth since 1880.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34735022/ns/weather/

[Jamastiene]

13. I appreciate your effort to educate people, but

that's too many words for most right wingers. You have to remember they are people who are proud that they haven't read a book since grade school.

[Turbineguy]

22. Ignorance

something they can be proud of.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I'm sure the talk radio guys say something like that every time it snows

because just like clockwork, the knuckledraggers in Minnesota go to the online versions of local newspapers and post, a propos of nothing at all, "Where's your global warming now? It's cold in January!"

Well, yeah, knuckleheads, but note that we no longer get those Januarys where the temperature stays below zero all month.

[DCBob]

6. That's like saying they don't believe in summer when there are a few cold days in July...

Idiots.

[mrcheerful]

7. Never mind that global warming is about extreme changes in weather patterns

and it starts with extremely warm summers and severely cold winters because of change in climate. That was a given in 6th grade science class for christs sake. But when you replace science with religion what do you expect smarter science knowledgeable people?

[Jamastiene]

12. 6th grade?

Most Hannity spewers never made it past 4th grade. :P

[mrcheerful]

16. 4th grade all I remember is the girl that sat behind me wore dresses and seldom wore

panties so most of 4thh grade was spent dropping my pencil. The reason she didn't wear panties was she lived in a "house" with dirt floors and no running water. Her parents had high hopes because they had a bath tub in the front yard, though when the "house" was tore down in the 70's the tub sat there for 4 years after the house was gone.

[parasim]

8. Hey, try living in Florida when it's in the 30's.

It's scary.

[Jamastiene]

11. I'll sell you a loaf of bread for $50.

I'll throw in a gallon of milk for $75.

:P

[Jamastiene]

10. Your first mistake:

was trying to reason with a right winger. If it involves more than a grunt a burp or a fart, they lose interest.

Take it from an someone who had way too much exposure to right wingers before discovering intelligent life on the internet.

[RB TexLa]

14. Just say what I say to them: I don't bother explaining it to toddlers either, have a nice day.

[Contrary1]

17. You've got that right...

Snow in the winter? Where's that global warming?
Cooler than average for July? Where's that global warming?

No point in arguing with them. They just don't get it.

[The Doctor.]

25. I might go with that.

Educating someone on complex things like the climate, quantum mechanics, or how to finger-paint without eating the pretty colors, and then watching them go right back to doing and saying what you just explained to them was wrong and how... well, it's a bit sad.

It's really like they just can't learn.

They really think that an average temp rise of 2º means 'no more snow anywhere'. You just can't reason with plug stupid.

[Fuzz]

15. But it's cold outside!

[daleo]

19. Smoking doesn't cause cancer

I can prove it, because I know smokers who don't have cancer.

Same argument.

[laconicsax]

20. Part of it is an inability to understand that they aren't the center of the universe.

Melting ice caps, disappearing glaciers, desertification, etc. mean nothing to someone who doesn't see it out their front door.

Edited to add: I found it curious that the BBC version of the Planet Earth series has a fifth disc about climate change, conservation, and environmentalism that's missing in the Discovery Channel version. I guess they figured it wouldn't sell in Dumbfuckistan if it didn't ignore reality.

[Cetacea]

21. "It's normal this time of year".

Tell them to talk to their grandparents about how much the weather has changed since they were children or teenagers. It's the best proof.

[BluDemocratGirl]

23. Here's my simple question to those ignorant fools..

WHere are theirs?

[Ken Burch]

24. Isn't that what Edward G. Robinson kept saying in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

"Where's Your Global Warming NOW?"

[struggle4progress]

26. Changing the mean global temperature will changes the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere,

so local climates will be affected: some places will get warmer, some places will get colder, where rain and snow falls will change ... but on average the temperature will go up

[FSogol]

27. Everything is simple to a simpleton. n/t

[seabeyond]

28. the height of stupid. nt

[Canuckistanian]

29. Funny, you never hear from them when record HOT weather occurs

People forget that we've had some record hot days in recent summers that have actually killed people in big cities around the world.

Strangely, all questions about "global warming" stop when that happens.

[BlueGirlRedState]

30. I heard it just yesterday

Not sure if my conservative co-workers are trying to tease me, or just don't get that extremes in weather are climate change and it's not good.

[dembotoz]

31. sort of like World War II never happened because the germans never invaded wisconsin

all the world war 2 stuff is just lefty propaganda stuff.
so that fdr would make us all socialists and stuff

[Overseas]

32. I sometimes call it Climate Destabilization. //nt

[guitar man]

33. Yep, got that very thing in an email

from a wingnut in-law. Here's the exchange

HIM : Hahaha, wheres your global warming now?

ME: Bob, you're a blooming fucking idiot. A month ago you wrote:

"I don't see how they can use such a short history of recorded weather to predict anything of the sort considering the earth has been around for billions of years"

so you mean to tell me you don't believe a couple centuries of weather data can prove anything but you want to point to one cold snap to try and disprove it? FAIL!!



and I thought that bunch of mouth breathers you hang with think the earth is only 6000 years old...and flat.

:rofl:

[chrisa]

34. You have to use long term analysis

Pointing to the weather of any given day as proof or debunking of global warming is pretty stupid.

[AngryAmish]

35. This cold snap is caused by Global Warming

[Berry Cool]

36. Say "I see you are confusing the term 'climate' with the term 'weather'"

and leave it at that.

[G_j]

37. "trees pollute"

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