'Good Morning America's' Expert Blames Heat Wave on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

businessandmedia.org ^ | June 9, 2008 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

This time of year, global warming activists have another way to frighten the public – using steamy weather to suggest human greenhouse gas emissions are worsening a heat wave.

Stanford University professor Dr. Stephen Schneider told ABC’s “Good Morning America” June 9 that methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are making hot temperatures even hotter.

“While this heat wave like all other heat waves is made by Mother Nature, we've been fooling around by turning the knob and making a little bit hotter,” Schneider said. “[W]e’ve already increased by 35 percent the amount of carbon dioxide which traps heat. We've added 150 percent more methane, which also traps heat.”

[Rufus2007]

When it's cold, the alarmist global warming skeptics are engaging in a Red Herring argument when they point to cold temperatures, but when it's hot - they have no problem making the link.

[jpl]

The earth has a fever!!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Another moron heard from......

[isrul]

Shocking. Who ever heard of hot temperatures in June? We're doomed.

[LibWhacker]

They should’ve put ‘expert’ in quotes, not ‘Good Morning America.’

[Poseidon]

D'oh! It's called Summer ya moron!

[TLI]

Imagain that. Hot weather in the summer. Yep. We evil humans did that.

Check out his video. Ten bucks sez he is an O-Bot.

http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080609135915.aspx

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well of course it’s global warming! Every summer we hear it’s because of global warming. Summer was never hot before. The cooler than usual May weather was all but ignored by these people, because it didn’t fit the template of the global warming agenda.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Makes No Difference what the climate is doing.

HOT....Global warming is at play

COLD.......Global warming is at play

STORMY.......Global warming caused it

CALM......Global warming is bringing change

[cripplecreek]

“While this heat wave like all other heat waves is made by Mother Nature,

Does he mean "summer"?

[Enchante]

Well it’s mid-50s here in northern Utah and I’ve been wearing fleece and sweaters the past few days.... it’s probably 20+ degrees below our typical June days, so I guess we are facing GLOBAL COOLING!!!!

[AlaskaErik]

I just wish summer would come to Alaska. Spring is coming later and later and the summers just aren’t as warm as they used to be.

[Enchante]

“This is the alarmists’ standard answer,” Spencer said. “But the area of unusually cool weather out West is much larger in extent than the area of warm weather in the east – an inconvenient truth, you might say.”

Just what I was saying -- we are having a very cool spell all over the west -- here it is June, almost to the Summer Solstice, and it has been mid-50s here the past few days and much cooler at night.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Frost last week in Duluth. Kiss your tomatoes good bye.

[BuffaloJack]

I guess he didn’t get the memo...
The left is slowly abandoning manmade global warming for the easier to fool’em with “Global Food Shortage”.

[unkus]

Makes No Difference what the climate is doing.
HOT....Global warming is at play

COLD.......Global warming is at play

STORMY.......Global warming caused it

CALM......Global warming is bringing change

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Sorry, it is now Climate Cange. “Climate Change” covers all the bases.

[colorado tanker]

It's cool here too. Not a cloud in the sky. An absolutely spectacular late-Spring day.

'Tis a pleasure to live in the Rockies!

[Laserman]

I guess he didn’t get the memo...
The left is slowly abandoning manmade global warming for the easier to fool’em with “Global Food Shortage”.

Don’t forget the other “latest” - Global Acidic Oceans.

[who knows what evil?]

What steaming BS...the idiots at the weather bureau can’t accurately predict the weather a day in advance, and I am suppose to believe in their asinine prognostications about global warming???

[BOBTHENAILER]

You’re right. Once it was proven that temps had actually DROPPED last year, the thought police changed gorebull warming to climate change.