Well…there are a bunch of memes going round out there about the polar vortex cold we’ve been having in the midwest over the past week or so and a lot of them show Lake Michigan freezing in one frame and then scenes from “the Day After Tomorrow” disaster film where the oceans freeze in the other…and they invariable try to use the cold weather as proof that climate change isn’t happening…and this crap is an ignorant right wing staple that starts with the idiot trump and winds it’s way through fox news and into the quite stupid trump followers. Hey, stupid people…weather is not climate…they are not the same thing and if you think climate change is not happening, give someone in Australia a call…and ask them about how hot it is this winter down under…..every damn record for high temps has been broken this winter all across Australia and most people there understand that this is not just weather that will change, as ours is here…when it is going to be 50 degrees with thunderstorms Monday…but it is long term, human caused climate change that will make a lot of Australia uninhabitable. Yes, it has been cold here…but any one weather event is just that…weather…which can be affected by climate change but no one that understands science would ever base conclusions on a sample size of one…something the science deniers on the right always do…just dumber than a box of rocks…geez…
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A Limbaugh smackdown…
Well…as we always expect, ole Rush went off the deep end again showing his ignorance and stupidity during the latest cold snap that has gripped the US over the past few days. When meteorologists stated to explain the weather pattern using the term “polar vortex”, ole Rush just went ballistic saying that it was a brand new term made up by the people who are pushing the “fallacy” of global warming and just a part of the conspiracy to do whatever he thinks the conspiracy is for…maybe taking away freedumbz? But, yesterday, Al Roker skewered his assertion by tweeting a page from a meteorology textbook from 1959 that used the term to describe exactly the phenomenon that we are seeing…and then betting anyone 1,000 dollars if they could come up with any instance where he related the vortex to global warming…and, guess what? No one could do it…one question I have is: doesn’t ole Rush have a staff that researches the bile he is spewing? Oh, of course not…he doesn’t give a damn about the truth so why would he pay someone to find out what it is? I have really tried to not write about ole Rush since I feel I need brain bleach every time…and I’m sure my brain won’t survive that much bleach…geez…