Attention Iglooramuses

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/2/10/163552/165

Attention Iglooramuses

by Steven D
Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 04:35:52 PM EST


You know that GOP Senator Inhofe, global warming denialist, had his family build an igloo after the recent storms out East to mock global warming. If you didn't know, here's the story:

Members of Inhofe's family braved the historic snow storms crippling the nation's capital and other northeastern cities to build a sizable igloo near the Washington National Mall in honor of the outspoken climate activist and former vice president. Atop lies a sign at reads "AL GORE'S NEW HOME!" on one side and "HONK IF YOU {HEART} GLOBAL WARMING" on the other.

Funny joke, right? Ha ha. Those climate change alarmists, junk scientists and that serial liar Al Gore sure got it wrong, didn't they.

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El Niños have occurred more often since 1975, and measurements covering the last 120 years indicate that the duration of the 1990-95 El Niño was the longest on record.

Knutson and Manabe (1998) of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton, concluded that the observed warming in the eastern tropical Pacific over the last decades is not likely a result of natural climate variability alone. It is more likely that a sustained thermal forcing, such as caused by the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, has been at least partly responsible for the observed warming over a broad triangular region in the Pacific Ocean associated with El Niño.

This suggests that human-induced climate change may be at least partly responsible for the relatively extreme character of the El Niño-related weather over the last few years in many parts of the world.

That's from a report issued in September, 2000, a decade ago. Let me repeat that: A decade ago climate scientists were warning us that global warming was likely increasing the frequency of El Niño events and the severe weather with which they are associated.

This year a particularly intense and long lasting El Niño has been responsible for much of the bizarre weather in North America. What a surprise, eh? Amazing what climate science can do these days, at least when you disregard all the political bullshit hullabaloo designed to confuse the general public on the issue, and consider only the actual science involved.

Of course, anyone who has already made up their mind that global warming is not happening is unlikely to be swayed by the facts I've presented. We don't like evidence that contradicts our biases, after all. But the truth is out there for all those people who deny climate change is occurring if only they would pull their heads out of their igloos to look.

[leftofcool]

1. Isn't this the same asshole

who was outraged by the outrage over the Abu Graib torture photos? Somebody should shove a DC icicle up his ass. I've got pleny of em on my eaves.

[babylonsister]

2. This is the clown who flew to Copehagen for the climate

conference and was just...ignored.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30769.html

And on Abu Ghraib:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/03/inhofe-gitmo-torture/
Inhofe: ‘There has never been a case of torture’ at Guantanamo Bay.

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As the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented, there have been countless cases of detainees being abused and tortured at the prison camp. Detainees have been beaten, deprived of sleep for weeks, sexually harrassed, and shackled to the floor for days at a time. Inhofe’s statement at the town hall is only the latest in his political broadsides. He has in the past suggested that Obama is “un-American,” that the mentality of Middle Easterners is “worse than Nazism,” and that the conditions at Guantanamo Bay are humane.

[Hissyspit]

3. Yeah, Inhofe is a COMPLETE BATS IN THE BELFREY asshole.

Rachel Maddow and Bill Nye's Take: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x433447

[babylonsister]

4. That was classic Rachel-love it! nt

[patrice]

5. El Nino = more surface water evaporation = more water in the air