With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow, and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns.
But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it's ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall totals could cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "The Dylan Ratigan Show," Ratigan criticized those who would dare express misgivings about climate change based on the so-called "snowpocalypse."
"Here's the problem - these ‘snowpocalypses' that have been going through D.C. and other extreme weather events are precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing and anticipating because of global warming," Ratigan said.
In fact, Ratigan told viewers during the "Busted" segment of his program, that the heavy snowfall totals were evidence of global warming.
"Why is that? The thinking that warmer air temperatures on the earth, a higher air temperature, has a greater capacity to hold moisture at any temperature," Ratigan said. "And then as winter comes in, that warm air cools full of water, and you get heavier precipitation on a more regular basis. In fact, you could argue these storms are not evidence of a lack of global warming, but are evidence of global warming - thus the 26 inches of snowfall in the DC area and the second giant storm this year." [Emphasis added]
Ratigan criticized a TV spot by Virginia Republicans designed to ridicule proposed climate change policies that could hurt the state's job situation. He suggested there was some sort of schism in that state's GOP because the Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell has said global warming is potentially an issue.
"On a side note, Virginia's newly elected Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell says he accepts the science that is out there and warned that planet warming is quote, ‘a real concern.' So I don't know where the Virginia GOP is at, maybe they don't know the science, or maybe they want to win at any cost. I don't know, maybe they just wanted to make a commercial."
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Show us ONE such
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:49 ET by HockeyKidShow us ONE such prediction, Ratigan. You're full of bovine emissions and you know it.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
It's funny...
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:16 ET by unkeeafThese guys hit a break wall with an argument and keep trying to move forward. I love it. It just makes them look like the biased, propagandists that they really are.
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I also love how he stops...
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 22:01 ET by BossDanI also love how he stops... after... every...sentence... while explaing global warming like any one that is skeptical of it is mentally challenged.How any person can watch that station and not be insulted is beyond me. Just to get this straight, any example of extreme weather is now proving Global Warming even cold weather, and we are the slow ones.
Climate Scientists
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:38 ET by Brad90956Which scientists? Show me the predictions made by these so-called "scientists"?
Everytime they try to prove their so-called statements about global warming it's always an "unnamed source", "told me off the record", "I've been told" or in this case "climate scientists predicted".
I think it was
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:04 ET by ahusserDennis Quaid's character in the 'Day After Tommorrow' made that prediction. Ratigan is a buffoon. I think the repetitve dum bass comments made by these guys are so ridiculous that it will belie the saying 'If you tell a lie often enough it will become the truth'.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
What is NOT Caused by Global Warming?
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:51 ET by chuckhasHave the alarmist conceded any weather event or condition is not a sign of global warming?
Poverty for Al
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:22 ET by HockeyKidPoverty for Al Gore.
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Not just weather.
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:59 ET by ahusserBut earthquakes too. Danny Glover said so. I also recall something about affecting the prostitution business but not exactly how.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Birth rates do go up after
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:20 ET by Hunter12Birth rates do go up after disasters. Maybe that's it.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
How convenient....
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:52 ET by ForbusIf it snows...global warming. If it doesn't snow...global warming. Heavy rains...global warming. Drought...global warming. Category-5 hurricanes...global warming. No hurricanes at all...GW.
I guess there wasn't any weather until Al Gore came into the world.
I'll give this jerk
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:58 ET by CCsteelcitythe same response as Pelosi did to CNSNews reporter
ARE YOU SERIOUS? get a f'in clue man, how much more of this B.O.L.O.G.N.A are we going to tollerate of the GW/CC asshats.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee." - Bill Clinton in 2008 from "Game Change"
If PMSNBC says something,
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:06 ET by pwozIf PMSNBC says something, but no one watches, did it really happen?
Hey, Ratigan
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:06 ET by UpNorthdo you even know the difference between "a concern" and "evidence" of AGW? I think not, you're just carrying water for the global warming frauds. Your concern is that the socialist agenda isn't going to be imposed, not warming or cooling.
No, Ratigan, you could argue these storms are evidence of global warming, intelligent people see the idiocy in that argument.
1. Is he really not aware
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:10 ET by shannon761. Is he really not aware of what's going on with Climategate??
2. Is it just me or does it seem like this shows camera angles, closeups, walking around manner -- resembles Glenn Beck?
3. It's weird that he has drum beats or music playing in the background while he rants.
Dylan Ratigan
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:13 ET by nandrelliDylan Who?
Now From the Idiot...
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:22 ET by slickwillie2001Here's a great headline: 30 Inches of Snow in Washington, So the Idiot Creates a New Global Waming Agency:
http://www.redstate.com
Stick to Finance Issues
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:39 ET by BluegillScratch that you are poor on those too. Just go shovel, it's getting deep.
The Hoax has been exposed but NBC HAS to promote AGW because their whole business model is based on this HOAX. I guess the Head of the CRU saying he has been considering killing himself over the hacked emails is because he knows the science is sound? and I agree if know one watches was it really said.
1898
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:39 ET by leeanthonyvawe still haven't topped the snow totals from 1898. were we causing global warming then?
What's it gonna take?
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:41 ET by JeffC...I think the only thing that would convince these fools that there isn't global warming is if everywhere on the planet were 72 degrees and partly cloudy with a 15% chance of rain all the time. Any deviation is due to global warming.
They'd be complaining about "climate stasis."
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:57 ET by CobraManNo, they'd be complaining about the dangers of "climate stasis" and coming up with very expensive, futile scams in which to "return the global climate to it's natural variations."
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Cobraman
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:07 ET by ahusserNow how can we make a lot of bucks off of the impending 'climate stasis' LOL. But to be politically correct you probably should say: "return the global climate to its natural diversity."
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Burn oil in the East, spread sand in the West.
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 15:50 ET by CobraMan"Now how can we make a lot of bucks off of the impending 'climate stasis'"
We can offer a plan to burn oil in the East Continents and spread white sand all over the West Continents. The temperature gradients this would create in the "global climate" would bring back the Jet Streams, the Prevailing Winds, and the Ocean Currents and return the climate to a "diverse" state. I'll sell them the sand and you can sell them the oil.
"But to be politically correct you probably should say: "return the global climate to its natural diversity.""
Man, how could I forget about diversity?
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Cobraman
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 21:31 ET by ahusserI should have clarified my comment by saying "how can we make money on 'climate stasis' without actually doing anything. You get a bunch of scientists to back our claims. Get the UN to endorse their claims. Do a phony documentary. Call any climate stasis skeptics deniers. Win a nobel prize and then try to sell the media on climate diversity as a goal so we can go back to burning trash in our yards among other things.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
What, it never snowed in DC before the Industrial Revolution?
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:50 ET by CobraManThese people act as if snowstorms have never occurred before in recorded history prior to the Industrial Revolution and "man-made" CO2 emissions. I bet the Pilgrims, who faced similar storms when they settled in that area 500 YEARS AGO, would be shocked to learn they never actually faced those storms and it was all just their imagination.
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In 1977 or 1978 as I recall
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:09 ET by ahusserIt was so cold the Potomac River froze solid and some dared walk across it.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Throw away 5,000 therometers, why not toss snow depth gages
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:15 ET by upcountrywaterHow cold is it, if there no therometer there to measure it.
Is it a snow record if there is no one there measure it.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no there to see it, does it make a sound.
If it's really AGW then there should be mudslides and flooding in DC, and fires in LA, today.
Pop this bubble; smell wormwood in the morning.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics ...
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:59 ET by metaphorsbwithuEvery time something happens that scientists don't expect, they plug in a new variable and then "predict" they will happen in their revised models.
It's what they did when ice density increased in Antarctica (while ice allegedly decreased in the Arctic Ocean). Funny ... what goes for the South Pole doesn't go for the North Pole.
It's what statistical analysis is all about. When the things they predict don't happen, they plug in a new variable that supposedly explains why.
Eventually their models collapse under their own enormous weight ... unless they are promoted by extremists, politicians, and the media.
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Wow, it's like there is a
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:53 ET by Six String SpiffWow, it's like there is a contest for saying the most ridiculous thing you can.
The IPCC lead scientist was just dumped by his own country no less, to form their own climate research board. India.
So I guess the billion people in that country are stupid also?
It's also a wonder how the media continues to ignore the nuclear reactor in the sky. The thing that gives life to all.
In florida we have an
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:53 ET by jkwtradingIn florida we have an expression for people slightly or almost completely dumb...we call it too dumb to breathe..Ratigan fits into that category.
Personally, I prefer..
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 17:19 ET by sic721Rat-again calls it snowpocalypse. B-Ho calls it snowmageddon.
Personally, I prefer to call it "Snow-bal Warming".
MORON ALERT!
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 17:37 ET by George S PattonMORON ALERT!
Science???
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 18:23 ET by SkipperMLMUh...moisture doesn't cause heat. The temps are actually a lot cooler. And wasn't it these same guys blaming the lack of snow in Vancover for the Winter Olympics on Global Warming a few days ago?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/snow-2010-winter-olympics-vancouver-british-columbia/story?id=9762897
He sounded just like Al Gore with his hesitations in speach as he stumbled over his spiel pulling a story out of his "Al Gore".
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Evidence of global warming
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 07:20 ET by goodspkrSnowstorms are evidence of global warming.
Drought are evidence of global warming.
Higher temperatures are evidence of global warming.
Cooler temperatures are evidence of global warming.
Melting glaciers are evidence of global warming.
Advancing glaciers are evidence of global warming.
More hurricanes are evidence of global warming.
Fewer hurricanes are evidence of global warming.
Well you get the picture.
Sen Jim DeMint
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 07:39 ET by dmaley1714Was just quoted as saying and I may have it wrong but. " it will keep smowing in DC until Al gore cries Uncle". Love it
If he only had a clue
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 08:24 ET by ron from Texas"The thinking that warmer air temperatures on the earth, a higher air temperature, has a greater capacity to hold moisture at any temperature"
Let me poke another hole in Ratigan's statement. It's illogical. The process is called Henry's Law, which any high school chemistry student would now. The diffusion of a gas in any liquid is inversely proportionate to the liquid's temperature. This is why a heated ocean outgasses CO2.
And more on topic, it is not temperature that holds moisture. Nor do you need a big temp difference to have the condensation of precipitation.
If only he had a clue.
Fires
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:55 ET by sevenConvicted felon George Soros has a sock puppet named Joe Romm blog about droughts and forrest fires. Droughts and forrest fires will cause crop failures also.
James Hansen from NASA GISS is blocking coal mines as we speak. I am sure he would like to see people freeze to death before using coal. We have a twisted world.
'Snowpocalypse' 2009-2010
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 13:11 ET by SFCMACLefties are so predictable. If reality doesn't fit the narrative, try to change the "reality".
I've already shoveled 5 frickin' feet of "global warming" off of my driveway. I'm ready for REAL "global warmimg": SPRING.
Following the money...
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 13:32 ET by acumenRatigan works for MSNBC. MSNBC is part of the media company NBC Universal. 80% of NBC Universal is owned by General Electric.
AGW proponents believe CO2 is causing global warming primarily as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. AGW proponents' solution to perceived warming problems associated with the burning of fossil fuels is the rapid switch to clean, renewable energy to replace fossil fuels. General Electric has an enormous monetary interest in expediting the transfer from fossil fuels to renewable energy, particularly in the area of wind generation.
Removing global warming from the equation would at best slow the supposed necessity of rapid development, government (taxpayer) funding/tax credits and implementation of renewable energy. How would this effect Genereal Electric? Below is just one example of the billions of dollars at stake for GE and 1.4 billion reasons why the MSNBC "News Channel" would be promoting global warming (even in the middle of historic snowfalls in the mid-atlantic region of the US) as reported in a GE press release dated 12/10/2009 -- GE Receives $1.4 Billion Contract to Supply Turbines for Largest Wind Farm Ever Built in the US.
Most Americans understand the obvious conflict of interest involved with a large corporation highly vested in alternative energy also owning a national news organization offering opinion on the unsettled science of supposed global warming. Still this blatant conflict of interest escapes most establishment media mention.
Ratigan Rant
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:34 ET by donaldduckHey Dylan, thanks for that learned explanation on how global warming is dumping feet of snow on the D.C. area. Now, would you please interview Bobby Kennedy, Jr. who, just a few days ago, was lamenting that global warming has made snow falls in the D.C. area a thing of the past? You gotta love the progressives. If they weren't so dangerous, they really would be funny.
See, as the warm air picks
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 23:16 ET by GregESee, let me school ya'lls on somethin'...... as the warm air picks up more moisture, then winter comes in.......uh, winter's are warmer....uh oh....I mean winter is uh, col...um, yea col....(looking off camera...what?)...yea uh, colder air, except when it's warming due to global warming, uh.......and so uh, yea, um, winter being cold drops that moisture because the air can't hold it......but uh.......global warming is making winter warmer, (looks off camera....oh my gosh, what?)....so uh, when the cold air can't hold so much anymore.......its really warm air that acts like cold air when snow happens, yea there it is (sweating), it acts like it, warm air taking on the properties of cold air some.....uh..how, ...uhh, else it would be.......ummm, rain, so uh........yea, so moving on, uhhh, commercial please? please? did I leave the iron on?
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