What do you call a group that uses large snowstorms to deride the scientific evidence for climate change? Fox News I guess.
The absurdity of pointing out that there’s snow in the winter — in one part of the world mind you — and using that to say that climate change is a hoax is breathtaking.
Especially when, at the same time, Vancouver is shipping in snow for the Olympics…you see, some places get more snow, some get less. That’s weather, not climate.
Anyway, if you don’t laugh, you cry. Only comedy can do justice to this insane line of logic.
The Daily Show points out that it’s hot in Australia…
…and Colbert make the logical extension that when it’s dark, the sun must have been destroyed.
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Just wrote our own post on this: http://www.maxgladwell.com/2010/02/daily-show-colbert-report-climate-change-skeptics/
One of the problems is that many supporters of climate change do the same thing. Al Gore did it with Katrina in An Inconvenient Truth. You can’t draw conclusions about climate change from isolated events. By definition, it’s a long-term trend.
it has to be pretty complicated to market something as “green” and “luxury”
luxury items don’t make sense to me in a world where people can’t even get clean water or electricity. I try to live at my minimum comfort level and donate to people in need but could do much more than I do if society encouraged this type of behavior.
I’d rather have my car a toyota corolla than gets like 39-40 mpg and use the money I saved from not buying an Audi to get solar panels for myself or some kids in Africa without any electricity. Audi’s site has a comparison and it said there is no environmental benefit of the TDI compared to a toyota corolla 4 cylinder