Thanks to the Examiner.com!
We here at USDemocrazy are cold. I mean, it’s really, really cold here, with the snowdrifts eight feet high during the Snowmageddon. It’s so cold that our brains are a little frozen… But not as frozen as Fox News’, apparently.
Fox made a little boo boo with several statements about the lack of global warming due to the recent winter storms all along the East coast.
In fact, Eric Bolling, host of Your World on Fox News, repeatedly showed “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s book about global warming. He buried the book in the snow, talking about how, because of the snow, global warming cannot be true.
At the end of the section, Bolling interviewed a global warming skeptic, Phelim McAleer, who was dressed in just a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals, while standing in the snow. McAleer stated,
“It’s nonsense that carbon dioxide is dangerous.”
Stephen Colbert, expert newscaster (or hilarious comedian), disagreed with this “scientific” report.
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Stephen Colbert stated, sparring against Fox News’ latest comments,
“According to my Dopplest 9000, it is dark outside. Now based on this latest data, we can only assume that the sun has been destroyed. The world has been plunged into total darkness…”
Basically, Fox News may themselves be in the dark. The climate change that we are seeing, the global warming, is a trend that is looked at over years and decades, not over days or weeks.
Plus, climate change scientists believe that global warming will bring about more extreme weather events, including really heavy snowstorms.
Why is it important for us to pay attention to climate change?
Well, the snow on the east coast has been debilitating for business and school, for starters. (Not that we are complaining… We have had a full week off of classes so far!)
This is unusual and could cause trouble for low-income families who are not making any money at work, push students so far behind in work that they may not catch up, and create extremely hazardous, even deathly conditions on the road.
And, this may continue.
Scientists have never said that global warming would equal no snow or ice. Instead, higher temperatures will allow the air to hold more moisture, which can lead to even more precipitation.
Who said global warming always had to be so… warm?
