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This "very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop," Trump tweetedLINDSAY ABRAMS
The 52 passengers trapped since Christmas Eve on a research ship mired in the Antarctic sea were successfully rescued Thursday morning. The whole disaster was ironic, according to known climate denier Donald Trump, because the ships mission was to study the regions changing environment.
Get it? Their research was related to global warming, and they were stuck in ice.
Trump tweeted:
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This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
7:39 PM - 1 Jan 2014
This isnt the first time Trump has confused cold weather with larger climate patterns. Several years back, he suggested that Nobel committee take Al Gores prize back because it had been a particularly snowy winter.
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full article
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/02/donald_trump_researchers_trapped_in_antarctic_ice_prove_global_warming_is_a_sham/
madamesilverspurs
(15,799 posts)that you don't have to be smart to be rich.
Gahhhh..........
bowens43
(16,064 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)Jesus, what a jerk.
joelz
(185 posts)Maher was on to something with Donald"s birth certificate
earthside
(6,960 posts)Typical of the looney anti-science right ... use any anecdotal event to try and make their point.
As you can extrapolate from the first video, even in the Antarctic 'summer' prevailing winds can expand sea ice ... probably what happened to research ship.
Arctic versus Antarctic Sea Ice
Sea ice volumes are not a 'balancing' game.
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2013
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)hatrack
(59,578 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)to address our catastrophic impact on the environment. For this reason denial is the meme of the day. The only question I have is, do these folks truly believe this idiocy because it suits them to believe it, or is it that they need to make us believe it because it suits them to have us believe it.
I don't think it matters in terms of what we can do to reverse the trend. I truly believe we have already passed the point of no return. The lie will be exposed sooner rather than later.