Beyond moronic: Drudge, bagging on Al Gore and global warming...

[VOX]

Once again, the RW media is attempting to make Al Gore their pinata. Matt "Developing" Drudge has the following "scoop" up on his site:
http://www.drudgereport.com/agwarm.htm
GORE TO DECRY 'GLOBAL WARMING' ON NEW YORK CITY'S COLDEST DAY IN DECADE
In what political watchers are calling possibly the biggest gaffe in years, former Vice President Al Gore is set to give a speech tomorrow on the perils of global warming -- on what is expected to be the coldest day in New England in nearly half a century!
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Now, If Drudge had half a brain cell, he'd know that a cold snap has nothing to do with global warming; OR, in fact, extended cold spells are likely due to the hemispheric weather patterns running through their cycles much more quickly over the last years:

http://www.terradaily.com/2003/031216180605.d4vd7z7d.html
2003 third warmest year yet as global warming continues
GENEVA (AFP) Dec 16, 2003
Global warming continued through 2003 as Europe's hottest summer on record helped fuel the third warmest year on record worldwide, international weather experts at the UN said on Tuesday.
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http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/news/freeze.html
Global warming can cause global cooling
Scientists announced in the July 21, 1999, edition of the journal Nature findings that suggest that global warming can sometimes lead to cold weather or even a worldwide freeze.
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Drudge can go to hell.

[Frodo]

1. Oh come on. You've got to have a sense of humor.

To give a global warming speech on the coldest day in several decades?

The timing IS funny. This guy just can't catch a break.

[aquart]

2. I expect the opening joke just wrote itself.

And what a great way to warm up the shivering audience it will be.

[KFC]

3. Kind of like claiming a hot day is due to global warming

I always loved the claim that global warming can be the cause of colder worldwide temperatures.

Nice.

[Cannikin]

4. Matt Drudge: I Go To Gay Bars, But I'm Not Gay!

http://www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume01/diatribes002/diatribes21-41/diatribes29.htm

[StClone]

6. I think you miss the point.

In a Global Warming (Global Climate Change) scenario there are predictions that certain areas will experience colder temps. Simply put, equilibrium is disturbed and new redistribution of cold or warmth to areas where it had not occurred previously . Certainly overall the trend is for higher highs but record cold, especially in the early stages of Climate Change, will occur.

[HootieMcBoob]

9. it can be

as the ice caps melt and more cold fresh water moves into the ocean and the warm gulf stream becomes displaced western europe could possibly loose its moderate winters. I'm no expert by a long shot but I remember reading an article about this a few years ago in atlantic monthly, i think it was.

[hatrack]

10. Recent Antarctic trends also show sharp regional warming, slight cooling

Although the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed on the order of 4-5C in the last 40 years (hence the disintegration of Larsen A and B), other parts of the continent, especially around the edge of the plateau above the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf (i.e. west of McMurdo Station) have cooled slightly in the last 10-15 years.

Antarctica's a big place, and regional variations aren't too surprising. The same kinds of regional cooling have also appeared in Greenland, where the SE edge of the island has cooled very slightly in the last 10 years, even though glacial retreat continues to accelerate in the same area, and though the remainder of the island continues to warm rapidly.

[hatrack]

5. Drudge knows climatology like a vacuum cleaner bag knows Goethe

Yeah, I'm sure when he puts on his reporter hat it fills his brain with scientific knowledge.

Whatever, Sludge.

[Kinkistyle]

7. Record retreat in Swiss glaciers in 2003

Switzerland's glaciers melted by a record amount during 2003 under the onslaught of long-term climate change, a top Swiss science academy said.
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"The overall view that emerges is of a clarity never seen before since annual measurements started in 1880. None of the glaciers progressed or were stationary," the academy in Bern said in a statement.
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One of the academy's scientists explained that the overall length of the glaciers reflected a warming of the climate over several years rather than immediate shifts in temperature.
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"The length change sums up all the climatic influences," he told AFP.

"The glacier measurements are one of the best ways of documenting climate change," Bauder added.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040113/sc_afp/science_climate_switzerland_glaciers_040113184610

[3rdParty]

8. Gore just doesn't think sometimes

You're just setting yourself up if you have a seminar for earth warming in the middle of January in the northeast. Why not just wait a few months?

[Military Brat]

11. So Gore should set his schedule to appease the naysayers?

Someone in the audience would surely bring up a weather pattern somewhere which supposedly negates the global warming factor.

Think before you post insults to Gore, please.

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