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CNN: Fact checking Trump's snowstorm tweet
CNN ^ | February 11, 2019 | by Holmes Lybrand (D-CNN)

Posted on 02/12/2019 8:26:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

During Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar's 2020 announcement speech in the midst of a snowstorm in Minneapolis Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted out a jab toward the senator's statements on global warming.

"Well, it happened again," Trump tweeted, "Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!"

The President has used this sort of rhetoric many, many times during his time in office, suggesting that cold weather somehow disproves the scientific evidence that the planet is warming. But it doesn't quite work that way.

First of all, Trump is conflating two things: weather and global climate. To put it simply, weather is the day-to-day changes in atmospheric conditions, while climate is the weather over the long run in a particular region.

While a snowstorm in Minneapolis in early February is pretty unremarkable, the President has previously pointed to record colds in certain regions as evidence against global warming.

Some scientists, however, believe that it's because of warming that we see more extreme colds as well.

So while we need more research to determine if global warming is causing colder temperatures in some areas in the US, what is clear is that the mere presence of a Minnesota snowstorm in February is not evidence that global warming doesn't exist.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bias; fakenews; idiots; journalism; media; snowstorm; tds; trumpmedia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Sun controls 99.99999 percent of the climate and weather.


21 posted on 02/12/2019 8:38:53 AM PST by buffaloguy (MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "scientific evidence" was clearly laid out 19 years ago in "The Independent."


22 posted on 02/12/2019 8:38:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The President has used this sort of rhetoric many, many times during his time in office, suggesting that cold weather somehow disproves the scientific evidence that the planet is warming. But it doesn’t quite work that way.

Yeah, sure. In Leftworld, if it’s hot... it means there’s global warming. And if it’s cold... it means there’s global warming. Therefore, anything that happens to the weather at the time proves they’re right and we’re all idiots.

And, by the way, they think it should be illegal to argue with them.


23 posted on 02/12/2019 8:40:27 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ll just go on record that Amy Klobuchar (Demonrat-Tundraland) is NOT electable in Alabama or much of the South. I’ll go further: the dimwit will never be President.


24 posted on 02/12/2019 8:41:48 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: buffaloguy

more precisely:

The sun controls 99.99999 percent of the climate which, in turn, controls 99.99999 of the weather.

See if you can control the climate you can control the weather. And the climate is global so, accordingly, politicians must be able to control the world in order to control the climate and thus bring about utopian weather of 72F and sunny days world-wide.

So, what’s in YOUR wallet?


25 posted on 02/12/2019 8:43:12 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For a theory to even be considered “scientific” in the first place by definition it must be “falsifiable”. Global warming ie. climate change is not “settled science”... it is not even science at all. This is because there are no conditions or tests or anything at all that will disprove the “theory” to the true believers. This belief system is by definition a religion or more accurately a cult.


26 posted on 02/12/2019 8:43:28 AM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Sorry meant aka.


27 posted on 02/12/2019 8:45:03 AM PST by fireman15
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To: SamAdams76

Erased from history, comrade. It’s for the common good.


28 posted on 02/12/2019 8:47:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: robel

It's going to be a tough time for Global Warming proponents.

29 posted on 02/12/2019 8:51:45 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Welcome to the Police State)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Agreed that one snow storm is not proof of global cooling, but that same weather IS one small piece of the climate and a true study leans toward cooling, more so than miniscule, within-the-margin-or error increases in worldwide temperature.

There have been many instances of cold winters --even within my memory--but I don't recall the polar vortex continually pummelling north america time after time all winter.

With the solar sunspot activity nearly completely quiet, I seriously worry about dramatic cooling in our future.....which by the way, would be exponentially more troublesome than minor warming.

30 posted on 02/12/2019 8:55:48 AM PST by chiller (Dem's ideals are beautiful...they just never work in a real world. Feel good, OR do the right thing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why does CNN even bother? Don’t they realize that only the die hard kool aid drinkers are going to read anything they represent as “fact checking “? And that demographic will believe anything negative about the president no matter how over the top it is.


31 posted on 02/12/2019 9:03:14 AM PST by Spok
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To: Yo-Yo

Yep. My thoughts exactly.


32 posted on 02/12/2019 9:03:18 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SamAdams76

I have begun to suspect that there is more than coincidence in the fact that for a decade just about every high profile Speech from the climate gurus and their High Acolytes is accompanied by colder and snowier-than-expected weather phenomena.


33 posted on 02/12/2019 9:15:07 AM PST by arthurus (sjw workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your brains)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
while climate is the weather over the long run

long run = for however long it takes for my premise to be momentarily true

34 posted on 02/12/2019 9:21:48 AM PST by TheRightGuy
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

So, what’s in YOUR wallet?


Money to buy a good new parka ‘cause it is getting a bit chilly. Might spring for cross county skis too.


35 posted on 02/12/2019 9:23:13 AM PST by buffaloguy (MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
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To: buffaloguy

We’re getting nast lake effect today. Snow with freezing drizzle. Spozed to let up tonight then come back on THU.

I said I missed it when I was in Tejas. I’m reconsidering.


36 posted on 02/12/2019 9:26:49 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming confused with hot flashes.


37 posted on 02/12/2019 9:27:26 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN telling us that there is a difference between climate and weather is hysterically ironic.


38 posted on 02/12/2019 9:38:11 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Snow was supposed to be a rare thing by now.

39 posted on 02/12/2019 9:58:05 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Phillyred
First of all, Trump is conflating two things: weather and global climate.
COLD = weather
HEAT= climate

In Winter we say, "weather and climate change," in summer we only say, "global warming."

Exactly.

And while we say, "global warming caused by CO2,” we neither support carbon-free nuclear power here nor oppose coal-fired electric power station construction in Asia.


40 posted on 02/12/2019 10:54:17 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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