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While it may be cute to deride the Global Warming crowd because of the snow and cold that we are experiencing, it just descends to their level. The snow and cold is no more of a demonstration that "Global Warming" is false than were the high temperatures earlier in the winter a demonstration that it is true. Local weather has nothing to do with global climate patterns. And just as almost none of that ice in Greenland or Antarctica will melt if there were a five degree rise in the average temperature in those places, if there were a five degree average temperature rise in the northeast, it would still be cold here sometimes.

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"While it may be cute to deride the Global Warming crowd because of the snow and cold that we are experiencing, it just descends to their level."

You have not noticed the lefts favorite form of persuasion. Keep telling lies as many times as you can. To offset this one should mock them just as may times.

"Unfortunately, the idea of the self-regulating ecosystem was based on a mistake. It had been derived more from Norbert Weiner's cybernetics(abstract mathematics) than from empirical data. And by the mid-1980s, most ecologists would realize that the fundamental assumption of this mathematics --the notion of self-regulation--was false. There is no balance of nature. Living systems aren't like thermostats. They don't self-regulate. They experience constant, random, and extreme change. The biologists of this era failed to find balance, not because ecosystems everywhere were on the verge of collapse but because there never had been any balance to find." --Alston Chase (A Mind For Murder)

“When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power”

Unfortunately, "descending to their level" works, as shown by the million$ that "Earth in the Balance" and Gore's movie have doubtlessly raked in for Gore and his backers. The cartoon and 10-second sound bite are (unfortunately) effective in today's political climate.

You may have noticed that the socialist post modern greenies have changed the title of their meta narrative from global warming to climate change, just in time too, because the world is on course for a record cold winter. While you, on the East coast were having a pleasantly warm fall, the rest of the world was having unusually cold weather. But it wasn't just one winter that convinced the lefties to change their story, it was the fact that the warming trend peaked in 1998, and since 2000 there has been no warming at all. Now we get a record cold winter.

The only thing about the Earth's climate that scientists know for sure is that it is always changing.

While it may be cute to deride the Global Warming crowd because of the snow and cold that we are experiencing, it just descends to their level.

I slightly disagree. Calling them a "Nazi", "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "specist", "Islamophobic", "ant-social". "hate-filled", "warmongerer", "polluter", "animal-hater", "greedy", and of course "neocon" would be descending to their level.

Mocking them in an absurd fashion can be fun, and sometimes it can draw them out for factual debate.