Is global warming a hoax now that the mid-Atlantic got slammed with a major blizzard?

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

I used to believe in global warming when temperatures were in the 70s in New York in December, but now I realize this is all a hoax.

(This poll/post is satirical FYI)

12 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Forget those 60-70 degree weeks in December, global warming is a hoax
	0 (0%)
	Forget rising sea levels explaining increased precipitation, global warming is a hoax
	0 (0%)
	Let's just throw snowballs in the Capitol
	0 (0%)
	I legitimately believe global warming is a hoax (no satire)
	1 (8%)
	Other (The OP is just not funny)
	7 (58%)
	Other (The OP may believe in global warming, but doesn't get the science with his poll options)
	3 (25%)
	Other (all others)
	1 (8%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[cheapdate]

1. Yes, this proves that everything we thought we understood

about how bodies in space radiate heat was wrong. It's clear now that carbon dioxide does not absorb energy in infrared wavelengths as we thought it did, and therefore has no effect on the earth's radiative balance.

[cheapdate]

10. The radiative equilibrium temperature of the earth

depends basically on 3 things; the amount of incoming radiation (irradiance), the planetary reflectance (albedo), and the absorptivity/emmissivity of the atmosphere ("greenhouse gases&quot .

The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has increased by more than 10% just since the 1950s and is climbing rapidly. Unless there is a sudden and prolonged dimming of the sun, it's going to get hotter.

The counter-factual statements in my earlier post were not serious. I should do a better job of identifying sarcasm.

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

14. I thought it was funny

Sarcasm is how I deal with pseudoscience.

[cheapdate]

17. It's about the only thing that's worthwhile, sometimes.

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

2. Wow, tough crowd

[LiberalElite]

4. yeah it's just not

funny anymore - if it ever was

[angstlessk]

3. Sorry for the east coast folks, but here in detroit

we have unprecedented warm weather..and February looks to be warmer yet. In the 40's for early Feb....

[LiberalElite]

5. Oh it'll get to be above freezing in a couple of days -

then the snow will melt BUT it'll be below freezing at night, so the melted snow will freeze... and so it goes - we'll have a nice crop of potholes in the Spring.

[angstlessk]

7. The first year we moved here 1997?

it was below freezing....day and night.

Our heater broke down.

We were unprepared for the cold and we covered up with tons of clothing..and our animals were under those clothes as well.


Since my SIG Other is afraid of gas, we now heat by kerosene heaters, of which we have 3 to 5, and they can really heat up the house.

[LiberalElite]

8. Where are you? nt

[angstlessk]

9. Detroit

We are having an unprecedented warm winter...and I am lovin it!

[LiberalElite]

13. For all the big snow storms we've had here -

I know I could not withstand a Midwestern winter.

[FloriDem]

11. That's not how this works

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

[petronius]

12. No, that was last year's truth. This year, now that we've learned that global

warming has staved off the next ice age and is the bestest thing ever--thank you Republicans and oil companies for protecting us!--we know that storms like this are warnings of what we'd be experiencing 24-7-365 in the absence of life-saving AGW. Amen!

[1939]

15. Some look back might help

The last time we had a global warming scenario was during the Viking Age. While they did not have thermometers then, there is a lot of literature and geological evidence of what happened then. Some areas benefited greatly as increased agricultural production led to the rise of the Vikings. Other societies such as the American southwest were devastated by the climatic changes and were crushed by drought. The Little Ice Age which followed (and which we are just climbing out of) destroyed Viking power and had a very negative effect on all of Europe.

[DavidDvorkin]

16. Of course it's a hoax, and I don't need the East Coast storm to think so

Here in Denver, it hit 60 degrees today, but tomorrow there might be rain, and by evening, IT MIGHT CHANGE TO SNOW!!!

What more proof do you need than that?

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Not funny at all

[steve2470]

19. global climate change is the better phrase, not global warming

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

[pnwmom]

20. No. The climate change models all predicted bad winter storms on the east coast. n/t