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  1. 1.

    Ocotillo

    Global Warming was bad nomenclature for Climate Change, kind of like Grand Old Party is the wrong name for one of the evil parties in America.

  2. 2.

    scav

    Well, Trump woke up this morning which is inarguable PROOF that death itself has been eradicated from ‘Merca since his election!

  6. 6.

    dr. bloor

    It won’t stay underwater permanently, but even President Fuckhead is going to live long enough to see Mar-A-Grifto under two feet of water during a hurricane surge.

  8. 8.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    Remember, Trumpie believes he knows everything and knows better than those egghead libtards scientists.

    Just add “climate” to something Trump doesn’t understand.

  12. 12.

    Chyron HR

    Is the entire state of California still on fire? I don’t know off the top of my head because it’s been going on for so long that it’s no longer “news”.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    When I was a kid I remember reading about the Salem Witch Trials and being simultaneously horrified by them and grateful that I didn’t live in such an ignorant anti-science time.

    Ha! I was so naive. We are living my childhood nightmare.

  14. 14.

    Sloane Ranger

    Actually there was a bit on the news this morning that, according to a group of British and Russian scientists, the world is due to enter a mini ice age in 2021.

    It’s a shame really, as I said to my brother, I was really looking forward to Christmas Day barbecues!

  17. 17.

    M. Bouffant

    On the other hand:

    Thanks largely to a high-pressure system compressing air over the Great Basin, Los Angeles County could see temperatures 10 to 20 degrees warmer than the seasonal average, according to NWS Meteorologist Robbie Munroe. As a result of the high pressure, light offshore winds will prevent cool ocean breezes from reaching land.

    “Somewhere in the Southwest, most likely in California, will be the hottest part of the nation through Friday,” Munroe said.

    Woodland Hills was the hottest place in the country on Wednesday when the mercury peaked at 86 degrees. That was one degree warmer than the previous record set four years ago.

    As it happens, the high-pressure system keeping our region unseasonably warm is the same one fueling bone-chilling conditions in the Northeast, Munroe said. Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire, hit 34 degrees below zero with a wind chill factor that made it feel like it was negative 88 degrees late Thursday morning, according to the Weather Service.

    Woodland Hills is forecast to hit 87 degrees Friday, which would beat a record of 85 set in 1980. Burbank temperatures are expected to peak at 84 degrees that same day, which would tie a record set in 1963.

    My bolding. Trump might want to note that it’s all connected, but that would involve pulling his head out of his lard ass.

  19. 19.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Here in New Mexico it’s been abnormally warm and dry. Two nights this past week it didn’t even freeze, and it’s 85 days since we’ve had precipitation.

  24. 24.

    AnotherBruce

    @Ocotillo: Well, the main outcome of climate change is going to be global warming. It’s not a bad nomenclature, it’s the truth. Why not call it what it is?

  26. 26.

    AnotherBruce

    I kind of agree that we should stop reacting to Trump’s every tweet. He is totally predictable. He will always do and say the wrong thing. So why be surprised by his nonsense? The one thing that defeats him is to be ignored. Really, he says a lot of shit, but he doesn’t get very much done.

  27. 27.

    scav

    @Cheryl Rofer: Still More evidence of perfidy by scientists. They’re coloring ‘Merka blue, whereas we we all know — the stunning upset election and unprecedented crowds afterward prove it — ‘Merka is 100% a RED nation Made Great Again!

  28. 28.

    debbie

    @MomSense:

    So is Omnes.

    I read Stacy Schiff’s “The Witches” when it came out. I had hated Cotton Mather since having had to read him in high school, but I absolutely detested him after this book. I could hear the voices of Gingrich, Ryan, and Hatch in everything Mather wrote.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    @AnotherBruce:

    Why not call it what it is?

    Because it can be mocked any time it gets cold. See Trump’s tweet above. The issue is not just warming or cooling; it’s the increasing extremes. Climate change fits this better.

  31. 31.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    Has anyone seen SC? I want to ask her if she’s going to watch Darkest Hour.

    I know how much a big fan she is of Winston Churchill.

    /sarcasm

  32. 32.

    laura

    Trump’s just confirming what you KNOW to be true, and while that should be reassuring, it’s reenforcing what what know and fear the So-Called leader of the free world is whole unsuited for the job, and will parrot the stupidist and most disprovable blather so long as he saw it on fuax. And far too many will be thrilled, while we witness the worst of our collective fears come to fruition by the hour.

  34. 34.

    The Dangerman

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Here in New Mexico it’s been abnormally warm and dry.

    It was flip flops, short sleeves, cargo shorts, and a margarita in SoCal today (on the flip side, next real precipitation may be 2019, so we may be crispy by that time). Condolences to those freezing.

    Raven, have a fine time at the game and parade; weather looks like it should hold up through NYD.

  35. 35.

    Marcia

    A total lack of long-term thinking has been an inevitable consequence of the undercurrent of contempt for education that’s always been a part of U.S. culture. You can hear it in any supermarket checkout line: every time extra-cold weather happens at the usual time, some yahoo is showing off their stand-up comedy wit: “Well, so much for global warming [giggle, titter, teehee]!”

  36. 36.

    FlipYrWhig

    Wouldn’t it be fun to beat Donald Trump with a shovel? I think about it A LOT. I didn’t use to think about such things. But now things are different.

  40. 40.

    AnotherBruce

    @debbie: Who cares that ignorant people are mocking global warming? Our side seems too sensitive when dealing with these louts. Yes climate change is the more accurate descriptor, but aggregate global warming is the main threat to our planet.

  41. 41.

    dww44

    I saw that tweet from Der Trump on the nightly news. Sad that it’s the very same replica of the “give me some global warming” email last eve from my Fox News watching brother that he sent to me, the only liberal in the bunch, and a few other cousins. Every time there’s a genuine cold snap like this, he always comes out of the woodwork with this sort of anti climate change rant.

    Since others of them have now weighed in, I’m about ready to overlook the family feelings and tell them that this strong streak of anti-science, anti-environment, and anti-intellectualism they all exhibit ad nauseum (and they are believers in education, but just not the public sort) is the reason we have an idiot for President. I’ve just about had it with conservatives and Republicans.

  42. 42.

    Roger Moore

    Trump* apparently doesn’t understand that the “Global” in Global Warming means you need to pay attention to more than just the East Coast of the USA.

    *And other idiots who think like him

  44. 44.

    mai naem mobile

    Maybe he’s had a strike or MI with brain damage or its the cocaine or psych meds. Whatever the fuck, I guarantee you if Oba or HRC said shit like this moron they would have kicked their ass out based on the 25th Amendment before you said Veep. Money must be one heck of a drug because I wouldnt have slept wih this nut job got 20 million bucks.

  52. 52.

    mai naem mobile

    I’ve been listening to the classical music station because I can’t handle listening to Dolt45’s shit all day. I don’t really know much about classical music beyond kniwing what I like so I feel like I am at least learning something. I apparently didn’t pick up much in music appreciation class in elementary and middle school.

  53. 53.

    Ruckus

    @dww44:

    I’ve just about had it with conservatives and Republicans.

    Then you are way fucking behind me. I gave up long ago. There are still some who call themselves republicans who aren’t complete assholes. There has to be, the law of averages says so. I’m remaining skeptical.

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer: I heard someone say it was colder (by 1 degree Fahrenheit, but still) in Chicago this morning than (at whatever that US station) in Antarctica

  56. 56.

    Spanky

    Things that make you go “Hmmmm.”

    Romanian hackers took over two-thirds of the District’s outdoor surveillance cameras just before President Trump’s inauguration, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.

    The January attack affected 123 of the D.C. police department’s 187 outdoor surveillance cameras, leaving them unable to record for several days. Two Romanians, whom law enforcement officials describe as part of a bigger extortionist hacking group, are being charged in D.C. federal court with fraud and ­computer crimes.

    A part of me wonders whether somebody took notes on how it was done, should the need arise in the next three years.

  60. 60.

    mike in dc

    @Ruckus:
    I used to think common ground could be found–back in the early 90s. Now, I tend to think the other side needs their teeth knocked in, consistently, for a prolonged set of election cycles, until they “get it”, and at least steer away from the worst instincts of their base.

  61. 61.

    chris

    On Twitter Joy Reid calls this awkward. LOL

    Republican Congressman Devin Nunes received a $5,400 contribution to his campaign committee from the owner of the Washington Free Beacon, the original funder of the Trump-Russia Dossier.

  63. 63.

    different-church-lady

    @mike in dc: For almost its entire history American democracy operated on the belief that none of the parties would nominate someone who was bugfuck insane just for kicks. So I can kind of understand how people might come to think all the other rules are different too.

  64. 64.

    danielx

    @M. Bouffant:

    Once drove halfway up Mt Washington with the parking brake on before the spousal unit and I started wondering ‘what is that smell, anyway?’. That was in October – was Indian summer at the bottom of the mountain, more like January at the top.

  65. 65.

    m.j.

    Bundle Up!
    I’d just like to point out that during the energy crisis of the 70’s, when Jimmy Carter asked everyone to turn down their thermostats and put on a sweater the right wing-nuts went craz…ier than they might otherwise have been.

  66. 66.

    Millard Filmore

    @dww44: The British navy has been logging weather and currents since about 1680. The captains were tasked with logging all this data every 4 hours. There are plenty of records to look at.

    Climate scientists see the earth warming up, so they go fishing for grants to study whats going on. Somehow this is seen as a worldwide conspiracy to suck money from the government.

  73. 73.

    Josie

    @FlipYrWhig: I can totally relate to your feelings about this. I have always been a fairly peaceful person, but Trump really brings out my inner Hulk.

  74. 74.

    SFAW

    @mike in dc:

    Now, I tend to think the other side needs their teeth knocked in, consistently, for a prolonged set of election cycles, until they “get it”, and at least steer away from the worst instincts of their base.

    That would be a good start, but does not nearly go far enough. And, frankly, for it to be commensurate with the amount of damage they are inflicting on the USA and the world, the punishment should be much more than just at the ballot box. But it’s probably a tough thing to get them all tried for Crimes Against Humanity.

  75. 75.

    Jager

    @Chyron HR:

    Yesterday the Thomas Fire was 82% contained. It’s now the biggest fire in California history, It’s been burning for over 3 weeks and has burned almost 290,000 acres, burned over 1,000 structures, damaged almost 400 others. 125,000 evacuees. Nobody knows how much it’s going to cost.

    No Federal disaster Funds to date. To get the funds, the fire has to classified as a National Disaster. Hasn’t been done and trump has never mentioned it.

    We went to an event with friends in Santa Paula last week. The local Fire Chief was called to a meeting in Ventura shortly after the Thomas fire started, he said he was driving 65 mph and the fire was keeping up with him. The Santa Ana winds were blowing a steady 40 the first night with gusts to 60. The fire was burning an acre a second.

  76. 76.

    BC in Illinois

    Back in 1991 or ’92, the first full book I read on Global Warming said that when the record high temperatures came, we would also be seeing record lows. I asked my father, who in his retirement was a reader/reviewer for Science (the magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), what he thought about that. He thought for a few seconds and said “Yeah, that makes sense. You pump more energy into the system . . .”

    And in the quarter century or so since then, I have heard people use that same description. It’s not that the temperature of St Louis will rise in a straight line. It’s that there is more energy / heat in the overall system. Which screws up not only temperature readings, but precipitation, insect life, bird migrations, glaciers, growing seasons, and all sorts of other things that aren’t always put together in the mix.

    Plus –(and this one was an eye-opener to me)– the idea is GLOBAL Warming. The globe. Not just the US.
    Global area = 196.9 million square miles. (three-quarters water)
    Area of US = 3.8 million square miles
    The US is about 2% of the surface of the earth.
    The East Coast is even less than that.

    OTOH, it’s going to be below zero in St Louis on New Year’s Eve, and that sucks.

  82. 82.

    Brachiator

    @germy:

    R.I.P. Rose Marie

    Oh no. Very sad. There was a recent documentary about her life I think. Or a memoir (I am posting quickly here during my commute).

    She spoke briefly by phone during a discussion of her life on public radio station KPCC. She was a star very early on was known as Baby Rose Marie, and one of the first stars not be need a last name for everyone to know who she was.

    Much more to her story than being a supporting character on the Dick Vandyke Show.

  84. 84.

    Gin & Tonic

    @danielx: It has snowed at the top of Mt. Washington at least once in every month of the year. It’s an awesome place.

    It seems like nearly every year, some overconfident dude goes up in the winter and doesn’t come back down alive.

  86. 86.

    Ian G.

    It’s really a cosmic injustice that this imbecile and the majority of people who voted for him will be worm food well before the real crisis in climate happens. Then again, maybe when we’re fucking rid of all of them (can’t happen soon enough), we can do something about the problem.

  87. 87.

    SFAW

    @Gin & Tonic:

    It seems like nearly every year, some overconfident dude goes up in the winter and doesn’t come back down alive.

    Not just winter. Morons seem to think that if it’s 70 and sunny at the base, then “how bad could it be at the summit?.”

    The Darwin Awards should have a separate category for those numbskulls.

  88. 88.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    Um… yes. He is trolling. That’s quite deliberate.

    Now, I do like the “I can’t wait for stupid people…” followed by Trump, because, Trump is QED. But when people counsel not reacting to Trump’s outrages, this is precisely the kind you don’t want to respond to, to maintain maximal stability, and avoid pointless energy waste. I hope everyone here recognizes that climate change is a right-wing shibboleth… in the 00s, there were still some Republicans who accepted it, and the right wing decided to make it a litmus test, because
    1) it draws a distinct line, and
    2) you know you won’t draw in liberals, and most importantly,
    3) it helps the rich-now. No one cares if the wealth they hold now is utterly destroyed in 50 years – they’ll be dead by then (or holed up in a relatively safer, relatively more comfortable, position).

    So: Trump is just being a troll, quite literally; he’s not even informed enough to have a dumbass opinion. Don’t get mad.

    Pointing out that he’s a Republican stooge, and wow, those rubes really eat it up… that might be interesting. But anger won’t help one way or the other.

  90. 90.

    burnspbesq

    @Chyron HR:

    Thomas fire is almost out. The bad news is that the fiscal year isn’t halfway over yet, and CalFire has spent its entire budget.

  91. 91.

    burnspbesq

    @mai naem mobile:

    Most classical music stations think classical music ended around 1925. Unfortunately. There was an incredible variety of music in the last century. I’ve heard too damn much Mozart in the first 62 years of my life. I’ll take all the Shostakovich, Bartok, Prokofiev, Lutoslawski, Poulenc, Hindemith, Copland, and Adams you got.

  92. 92.

    NorthLeft12

    Yes Donald, because it is very cold at your house for a few days, the entire notion that the earth [ie. the remaining 99.999999999% of the globe] is warming has been completely disproven.

    Every freaking day Deadbeat Donald says something more ignorant and offensive than the previous day or week. There is no peak wing nut.

  93. 93.

    Emily68

    That’s the most remarkable thing about global warming. Any cold snap can disprove it, but even the hottest heatwave ever can never reprove it.

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