Virginia GOP: Tell Cap-And-Trade Dems How Much 'Global Warming' You Get This Weekend! (VIDEO)

Exactly.

But logic won't work on these people, and the dumbasses who will cheer this video, because they are impervious to it.

Hate to confuse the muddled minds of the anti-science party, but let's introduce a new term that really does have some cause-and-effect relationship to this weekend's weather: i.e. El Nino

In the beginning of the Mad Max films they show how the oil companies greed resulted in the destruction of the Earths Climate leaving survivors in a savage survival mode.
I wonder when Republicans refer to leaving things on the backs of our children if they can envision their own being held responsible for the sins of their fathers.
That would require a moment of clarity void of denial and very unlikely.
While the insurance companies calculate formulas to attempt suing the oil companies for storm damage the Republicans ignore our military preparation for climate refugees.
American conservative institutions like big insurance and our military say there is conclusive evidence and they are making major preparations yet the Republicans have conveniently dig their heads deeper in the sand.
We need to assess their liabilities and for once demand payment while they stand on their new out of the closet platform of denial

I'm sure you also have a long history of correcting those people who blamed hurricane Katrina (and just about everything else) on global warming, right? You really can't have it both ways. The left started this hysteria rather than try to explain the idea rationally. You used scare tactics, or rather allowed your proxies in the media to do so without correcting them. Then you complain when the GOP uses a blizzard to rail against AGW. Is it really any worse than claiming Katrina was "caused" by global warming?

Republicans can do politics but they can't (won't) govern. Democrats can govern, but they can't do politics. Time to get down and dirty, guys. Paging Rep. Grayson.

Isn't there a saying "never let the facts get in the way of a good story"?

Democrats have facts on their side. Republicans have good stories on their side. Good stories trump facts most of the time...

There is a difference between being on offense and being offensive. It just seems to me that the Dem’s get those two things confused and hence are always on defense

"There is no evidence to support the claim that the climate is warming as a result of man's actions"

??? How fucking stupid are you??? What stupid shit are you reading??? Why do your believe what you want to believe instead of what evidence is right before your eyes???

The vast majority of the evidence collected over the last 4 decades points exactly to the huge increase of CO2 causing a greenhouse effect and raising the average temperatures more and more each year. Where does all this extra CO2 come from? IT IS MAN MADE!!! You just got a BIG RED F in Science class ..... I hope it doesn't hurt your chances of getting into college someday.

Either your snarkiness is at full volume or you have no clue what you are talking about.

If you raise the temperature of a relatively ginormous mass one degree, do you realize how much energy is involved?

Proof positive that even a clever bulldog is really stupid.

Please stop. Please stop now. Go away. This is a forum for smart people. Please leave us alone.

Umm, you really shouldn't talk about what you don't understand. Much of the scientific evidence for climate change is found by pulling thousands of feet of ice cores from glaciers and polar ice around the world. By studying the layers, we can get a sure-fire temperature reading for 100s of thousands of years.

That's science. You opinion, is well, a full of shit opinion.

Also, who gives a fuck if climate change is man-made. If lightning strikes your house, do you ignore the fire because it's not "man-made"? If you know that lightning is going to strike your house at some point in the future, do you put a lightning rod on it, or do you wait for it to catch on fire? Thanks to moron anti-science conservatards, we're choosing the latter.

Man, you're stupid.

"So, when it is warmer than usual in some place, that's clear proof of Global Warming, but colder than normal temps are just weather?"

No, that's just your misunderstanding of what's actually going on. Climate change models (which I'm sure you reject out of hand) predict exactly this sort of behavior from the climate; temperature extremes at both the low and high ends of the spectrum, precipitation extremes likewise (often in extremely isolated locales) and an increased incidence of singular and record-breaking weather events. The fact that conservative shills like Frank Luntz have been able to relabel climate change as "global warming" has numbed conservative brains and inoculated them against what scientists have been saying all along.

Climate change is real, and our weather is progressing more-or-less just like the scientific models say it will. The only point of scientific contention is how much of climate change is anthropogenic (caused by humans) and how much is natural in origin. But climate change *is* happening.

"Typical heads we win tails you lose argument, and the people are not buying it."

If scientists were actually *making* the argument you posit, you'd have a point. But they aren't, and the only point you've got is the one on top of your punkin' head.

"There is no evidence to support the claim that the climate is warming as a result of man's actions."

The climate *is* warming. Can you agree to that much?

In fact the 'evidence' has been now shown to be faked, and the climate 'scientists' involved in a conspiracy to commit fraud."

Both of these claims are untrue. There is absolutely no evidence that any fakery has been engaged in, and no conspiracy has been demonstrated, let alone proven. If you believe that you can substantiate your claims, I invite you to do so here where we can all see what you have to say.

"Even accepting the theory, and accepting their claims of climate sensitivity, it would take over a hundred years to raise temps 1 degree."

To which specific theory do you refer, please?

"Considering that daily fluctuations are in tens of degrees, and seasonal fluctuations in the scores of degrees, this change could never be detected by a human, or by any plant/animal life. It is a problem only in the academic sense, but nothing to concern people in the real world."

And here we see the conservative counterclaim, though only through a glass, darkly. Conservative deniers of climate change believe that "global warming" means that it must be warmer EVERY DAY in EVERY PLACE on Earth, or else global warming cannot possibly be occurring. But they don't want you to know that they think that.

Want proof that's what they think? Ask them point-blank. They will never answer the question directly. They'll deflect, avoid, dismiss -- anything to keep from giving you a straight answer. Never mind that if temperatures increased in that manner, human life wouldn't last long on this planet -- global warming means (to them) that it must be warmer every day in every place on Earth. If it isn't, then science is lying to them.

See how easy it is to be an ignorant partisan when you don't have to think or analyze scientific data?

No. Add up every point on the planet. Average it out. Then take a look at where we are. Worldwide this has been one of the warmest Januarys on record. For every chill in Chicago or winter storm in Washington, it has been "take your winter and raise you one" with wildfires in Western Australia, drought in Darfur and torrid heat in Turkey.

"when it is warmer than usual in some place, that's clear proof of Global Warming, but colder than normal temps are just weather?"

When you average them together and the number is higher each decade, then it is clear proof of global warming. Denying this is clear proof of irrationality.

"There is no evidence to support the claim that the climate is warming as a result of man's actions."

The evidence is overwhelming. CO2 and other greenhouse gases, primarily CH4, are being produced by human actions. That can be measured, and the concentrations in the atmosphere correlate with what humans are producing. Rising temperatures are shown to be related to the heat that is not reflected into space because of combined greenhouse gases. Evidence doesn't get any clearer than that.

"In fact the 'evidence' has been now shown to be faked, and the climate 'scientists' involved in a conspiracy to commit fraud."

This is a totally false deliberate distortion promulgated by the denialists. Actually reading all the emails that are claimed to show fraud demonstrates that nothing of the kind occurred. It can only be "shown" if you do serious editing similar to what O'Reilly does to his interviews.

"Even accepting the theory, and accepting their claims of climate sensitivity, it would take over a hundred years to raise temps 1 degree. "

Temperatures have already risen more than that and are rising even faster than previously. Furthermore, your implication that small rises don't matter shows that you have no understanding at all of how the world works. It only takes a little bit to totally disrupt a stable system. May I suggest that you change the pH of your blood by oh, say, 0.2 pH units, not much, but enough to kill you?

Quiet fool! Grown-ups are talking!

Go masturbate to you posters of military positions!

Stick with your Palin worship. Stay with what you know. You're out of your depth on this.

Yeah, and think of the air conditioning bill of the poor SOB in Australia right now -- if that is, a wildfire hasn't burned his house yet. You wouldn't get worthwhile weather readings if the only weather station was in your back yard, so why should the weather in your back yard explain the weather for the whole world?

Its important to note that you associate the climate change issue with Al Gore. You dislike Al Gore because he is a Democrat. You cannot allow yourself to give credence to anything a Democrat might say. This is what causes you to be in denial about climate change.

Go and talk no more.

The problem is that we have a system of government that takes it for granted that both parties are sane and want good things for the country.

The "I'm too willfully dumb to trust my own 2 eyes" Republicans are neither.