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So how are Republicans going to back out of their anti-science position on global climate change without having their heads explode?

Anyway this is one of their paid whores jumping out in front of the annual "worst unintentional irony challenge".:

Too funny!


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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/02 ... mps/191973

The Oklahoman's New Year Prayer For Cooler Temps Ignores Climate Change
BRIAN POWELL

On its list of wishes for the New Year, The Oklahoman is pleading to God for "a wetter, cooler summer" after two years of drought and high temperatures -- an odd request, given that the publication has a history of denying the existence of climate change and ignoring evidence that global warming can exacerbate severe drought conditions.

Rejecting the tradition of New Year's resolutions as "well-intended vows that usually don't wind up amounting to much," The Oklahoman passed up an opportunity for self-evaluation and instead made a list of "wishes" that the editorial board hopes will come to pass in 2013. The board's first wish was for a cooler summer:

As the new year begins, we're offering wishes instead of resolutions. What follows is a compilation of what The Oklahoman's editorial board hopes to see come to pass in 2013, here and elsewhere.

A wetter, cooler summer: Enough with the heat and drought! We thought 2011 was bad, and it was, but 2012 wasn't much better. There were fewer 100-degree days than the year before, but that 113-degree reading at Will Rogers World Airport on Aug. 4 was over the top. Oklahoma begins the new year with 90 percent of the state experiencing extreme to exceptional drought. What's needed is an extended period (or two, or three) of soaking rainfall. From our lips to God's ears!

The Oklahoman's wish reeks of irony; the paper has regularly denied the existence of global warming while pushing for energy policies that would benefit the paper's billionaire owner, oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz, and continue us on the path of further warming. Unsurprisingly, the paper's complaint about the extreme weather was devoid of deeper context, but scientists have explained that this year's drought may have been made worse by higher temperatures in 2012 -- part of a manmade global warming trend. From the science journalism site Climate Central:

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yrs,
rubato

It's only ironic if you are stupid enough to believe that the high temperatures and drought in that locality are the result of man-made global warming. The cool, rainy summers in England over the past couple years are also "global warming," I suppose.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot - we are supposed to call it "climate change" now, so that it encompasses anything that is unusual, regardless.

From the "Harper's Index"

Unintentional Irony, world-class.

rubato wrote:
Are you capable of responding in a way which is not hate-infused?

Would someone impartial be able to tell this from your works?

I'm glad I'm not you. And I always will be so. You are a nasty little bit of pus.

yrs,
rubato

"I'm glad I'm not you. And I always will be so. You are a nasty little bit of pus," the putrid & festering abscess living in Santa Cruz exclaimed to an audience that has a unanimous opinion that he is a pathetic whining man who is kept for his beekeeping ability.

yrs,
rubato

dgs49 wrote:It's only ironic if you are stupid enough to believe that the high temperatures and drought in that locality are the result of man-made global warming. The cool, rainy summers in England over the past couple years are also "global warming," I suppose.

Actually it very well could be, if it turns out to be a trend. Flooding northern oceans with freezing water from melting ice would counter the effect of the North Atlantic Current, which as an extension of the Gulf Stream brings warmer waters from the south and is therefore responsible for giving northwestern Europe a warmer climate than its high latitude would suggest.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot - we are supposed to call it "climate change" now, so that it encompasses anything that is unusual, regardless.

It encompasses anything that will result from an increase in average global temperature. In some places, as the one I just mentioned, it could very well become colder. The term "climate change" was no doubt invented for the benefit of those too stupid to wrap their head around the fact that an increase in average global temperatures does not translate into a temperature increase in every spot on the globe.