Typical denier horseshit

February 3, 2009 in Political Animals | 6 comments

Porter Good tries a hoary old ploy so beloved of climate change denialists:

But not just any snow. Snow when it is really, really cold

Britain may be in the grip of the coldest winter for 30 years and grappling with up to a foot of snow in some places but the extreme weather is entirely consistent with global warming, claim scientists.

Temperatures for December and January were consistently 1.8 F ( 1 C) lower than the average of 41 F (5 C)and 37 F (3C) respectively and more snow fell in London this week than since the 1960s.

But despite this extreme weather, scientists say that the current cold snap does not mean that climate change is going into reverse. In fact, the surprise with which we have greeted the extreme conditions only reinforces how our climate has changed over the years.

If you want, head on over to the story to read the “reasoning” for this, I don’t like to excerpt that much from one story, and I would have to excerpt quite a bit for the explanation. But it just goes to show that AGW supporters will go to any length to buck up their theories that global warming is man made.

The shorter version of what this ignoramus is saying is: I can’t actually refute what the article says, so I’ll put quote marks around “reasoning” and congratulate myself for having made something that lazy-ass know-nothings like myself call an iron-clad argument.

Notice also that the Telegraph article says nothing whatsoever about the data regarding Britain’s winter being connected to “theories that global warming is man made”. This is pretty good evidence that Porter didn’t even bother to read the entire article.

If there’s a better way to make a pubic fool of oneself than the one Porter Good has just demonstrated, I’ve yet to see an example of it.

  1. William Teach on February 3, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Yawn. I’ll give you a grade D.

    Besides, as I will reiterate once again, my issue is not with global warming, which happened, but manmade global warming.

    Nice try.

  2. meatbrain on February 3, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Liars like you don’t get to “grade” anyone, Porter. Shove your “grade” up your ass.

    Now: Can you actually refute the research reported in the Telegraph, or not?

  3. kemibe on February 4, 2009 at 12:29 am

    What a sophisticated argument: Global warming “happened.” When and where and to what extent, and what were the contributing factors?

    The reason nuts and lazy ignoramuses (and the Stop the ACLU crowd makes it very clear that its “writers” tend to skim maybe a paragraph at most of the articles they link to) fixate so strongly on AGW as a “libtard” target is because they can always dismiss it on the basis of something happening somewhere every day. They can claim computer models are rigged and that it snowed somewhere it wasn’t supposed to, and declare the matter a leftist money-grabbing conspiracy, case closed.

    There’s no educating people like these and little chance that their ideas will poison anyone who’s not already sold for ideological reasons or too stupid to to understand anything not renderable in strict black and white, so it’s better to just bash them and point out their mistakes. Then, being at the mercy of blind emotions, many of them close down comments, ban people, and so on and thereby expose their true colors.

  4. Adam on February 4, 2009 at 6:53 am

    There is no global warming. It’s a conspiracy between all the world’s biggest scientific bodies and the United Nations. Why else would these groups representing millions of scientists all of the sudden form a consensus that climate change is real and humans have a significant impact when so many dozens of scientists still don’t believe in it?

    And if Joe The Plumber doesn’t think it’s real then that is good enough for me.

    You posted that Lewis Black video a while back and I think it says a lot about this crowd of deniers. They run in the same crowd of people who put human saddles on Dinosaurs in creation “museums.” There’s not much ammo against that.

  5. meatbrain on February 4, 2009 at 7:11 am

    There’s essentially no hope of reason with folks whose first and most important precept is that reason doesn’t matter. But we can try to mitigate their nonsense somewhat by pointing out just how ridiculous their “arguments” really are — or in Porter Good’s case, how nonexistent.

    The late Carl Sagan said it best, I think…

    They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  6. kemibe on February 4, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Adam: Sad to say, if you had not included that last paragraph and I were unfamiliar with your comments here, I would have had to consider whether that was actually parody or not. The dead giveaway to me would have been the proper grammar and correct spelling.