Despite the obvious, there are still some hard-core anti-capitalist leftists who are determined to keep the global warming discussion alive. Case in point: An Op-Ed article by Judah Cohen, director of "seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm," posted (predictably) in the NY Times on Christmas day. In the article, Cohen tries to explain the reason for the unusually cold season...
...As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past two and a half decades, more moisture has become available to fall as snow over the continents. So the snow cover across Siberia in the fall has steadily increased...
WUH???
How freakin' stupid do you think the public is? Somehow this genius thinks that melting ice in the north is responsible for an increase of snow just a little further south of the Arctic Circle which is pretty much on par with making an argument that 2+2=5. Cohen then tries to back up this ludicrous connection by taking the reader on an atmospheric roller-coaster ride around the world. By time you return to the scene of the crime, provided you haven't fallen off the carnival ride along the way, the reader has forgotten all about the fact that NONE of his assumptions are backed up by actual scientific fact - an inconvenient technicality overlooked by the greater purpose of the article which is the need to re-brand the "global warming" lie into the more aesthetically pleasing title of "global climate change." But just in case you doubted me, you can skip to the end of the article and see it for yourself.
...It’s all a snow job by nature. The reality is, we’re freezing not in spite of climate change but because of it.
At least the NYT had the common sense to place the article in the Op-Ed section. Otherwise, they could have posted it in the local news section under a headline that read "There's nothing quite like the feeling one gets from flogging a dead horse."
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