Guest post by Mark Johnson
What would the climate change debate be without a quote from Rosie O’Donnell. Al Roker was interviewing the talk show host on a Weather Channel segment Monday morning during “Wake Up with Al.” Here’s how the exchange went:
ROKER: “What do you think about the controversy about the people who say, ya know, this whole global warming thing is a scam…a sham?”
ROSIE: “It’s ridiculous. Its absurd. There’s scientific proof. And those are the people who also believe in Creationism, right? I don’t know how you can argue with science in that way when…we’re alive in 2012, and every kind of from of measuring and scientific data. Its a ridiculous thing to say it is not occurring.”
ROKER:”During this winter, when all this weird stuff was going on, were you like a lot of us, going ‘What the heck is going on?’ ”
ROSIE: “You know, I was in Chicago for the winter and everyone said to me, ‘You better get thermal underwear and heated boots!’ Literally, I spent all this money getting all this stuff. It was like spring…it was a joke! It was spring the entire winter! I used my coat once!”
Now, lets review:
According to commedien-turned-climate scientist Rosie O’Donnell,
1) the science is settled,
2) Skeptics are flat-earthers and religious fanatics;
3) one cut-off low pressure in March across the central United States is proof of global warming.
4) Rosie has a gently used winter coat and thermal underwear for sale.
I wonder what O’Donnell would think about underestimated polar bear populations, decreasing hurricane intensity, fewer strong tornadoes since 1974, the forgotten heat records of the 1930s, adjusted arctic temperatures, twelve trees in the Urals, spliced temperature data in the Antarctic, upside down Tiljander proxies, a non-ice free summer arctic, hidden declines, the non-existent big red heat spot, artificial temperature inclines, ClimateGate, FakeGate & hockey sticks.
I guess the word “science” means different things to different people…
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Chicago should invite her to spend next winter there as well, even though her talk-show has gotten the axe by Oprah. However she should be allowed to wear her coat, for scientific reasons.
Suspect that Rosie’s winter coat was made by Omar the Tent Maker.
Dosen’t she know global warming causes record cold winters? She should have hung on to her winter coat.
Somebody buy that lady my book 🙂
Rosie who?
Like ya know wow, I broke a sweat getting into my car. That must be global warming. Yeh I was late. I burnt the toast this morning and my coffee was cold. Yeh like wow, the extremes of global warming in my kitchen on one morning. How can any dill argue against that?
Well, the balloo …er… buffoon does claim to be a comedian …..
Why would Rosie need a coat with all that natural insulation she carries around?
Used Rosie O’Donnell thermal underwear.
Now there is a picture I did not need in my head.
Here in South-East England, we’ve started experiencing the wettest drought on record.
Plainly ACGW does funny things to, like, weather, and stuff.
Or, possibly, it might just be weather and stuff.
You know – some days are hot, and others quite cool really. Others arr wet, whilst some are sort-of, well, dry.
Who would have believed it even remotely possible?
Maybe tell the delightful – and no doubt personally very nice – La O’Donnell . . . . . . . . .
PS – pretty sure her coat wil be substantially too small for me!
Not sure why anyone would pay any attention to a serial failure. Either one of them.
‘Course she does: she looks at the world through Rosie-coloured glasses.
Interesting site on Chicago Temperature History:
http://www.climatestations.com/chicago/
“every kind of from of measuring and scientific data”…that is proof enough for me, who am I to question such intellect.
Hal
Roker is just mouthing the new mass media meme, “strange” weather. It’s a poor stepson of the “weather extremes” memes. The warmth meters aren’t showing increasing warmth, so the PR folks think up all sorts of new distractions to prove “change.” The target group is not necessarily the non-warmists, but it the warmists themselves. To keep them from going off the plantation and thinking for themselves. The trick is to play to their senses of superiority, and their susceptibility to scientific-sounding types of argumentation. The current phase of this type of meme is a build up to “connect the dots” day in May. Apparently this celebration is not the brainchild of Ogilvy Mathers or whomever Wall Street is paying for slush these days, but a non-astroturf creation of the mentally challenged 350.orggers, or similar.
Maybe she’d like a ticket to Eastern Europe or Russia.
She’d be using her coat then!
Screw her. I think we ought to lambaste Roker – a guy who SHOULD and probably DOES know better, but he is a talking head now,
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings and commented:
Proof positive – That size doesn’t equate to smarts
Problem with Chicago data: Weather station wasn’t move to it current location (O’Hare) until 1980!
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=history
If you don’t know who Rosie is, I’d recommend against doing an image search.
Gunga Din says:
April 30, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Well, the balloo …er… buffoon does claim to be a comedian …..
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Sorry about the crack about her physical appearance but hot air and balloons just seemed to go together.
Fraizer says:
April 30, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Used Rosie O’Donnell thermal underwear.
Now there is a picture I did not need in my head.
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EWWWWWWWWWW……. Ha ha ha ha
This story, the Tim McCarver “baseballs are flying further because of global warming”, and on, and on, and on… As we all know, they just keep repeating the lie until everyone believes it. As we all know, it’s working.
I was absolutely incensed with an NPR Morning Edition piece this morning.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/151522725/even-worse-than-it-looks-extremism-in-congress
Basically stating that extremists are destroying or democracy, that we should have Parliamentary rule (so the majority could just do whatever they wanted and not have to bother even listening to minority representation) and that it’s all the Republican’s fault.
Seriously, I’m not making this up. Their “guest expert” stated that he went into the study with an open mind and determined the outcome after careful analysis. Sorry, I’m throwing the BS flag on that one. Just like climate science, it was a premise seeking its predetermined outcome. On more than one occasion he decreed that Republicans were “anti-science” and mentioned this in direct relationship to the global warming debate. The carefully scripted “questions” to lead into the next conservative bashing diatribe. The whole thing couldn’t possibly have been more blatantly biased and partisan.
I listen to NPR, but I never donate. Now if we could just get our tax dollars out of supporting the national radio broadcasts of the Democratic National Committee’s talking points….
Who needs a coat when the only exposure you get to the elements is the twenty-foot walk from the building you’re in to the limo that’s idling outside?
No idea who she is, sounds like I’m the lucky one!