UPDATE: Brad doubles down on stupid and responds via Twitter - see comments for details.
As sure as night follows day, warmists will blame the latest natural disaster on global warming.
You may recall that Christopher Mims of Grist suggested the Japanese tsunami was caused by a trace gas essential to life on Earth in March.
America’s south was devastated by tornadoes this week, and Brad Johnson of Think Progress can hardly contain his glee:
The ‘best’ part for Johnson is that southern states were worst hit, and every hippie knows the south is full of bitter-clinger deniers, right?
Johnson’s willingness to point fingers and blame the victim is sick, but we endure it because he and Mims are skeptic recruiting machines. The warmist rush to use natural disaster to push their global warming agenda sickens most people and turns them away from supporting the ugly misanthropy that pervades the green movement.
And of course, the science of global warming causing tornadoes is dead wrong - NOAA says so:
A top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the American South is related to climate change brought on by global warming. Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said warming trends do create more of the fuel that tornadoes require, such as moisture, but that they also deprive tornadoes of another essential ingredient: wind shear.
If Johnson had any shame, the article would be replaced with an apology to those that lost loved ones and property. Don’t hold your breath.
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Brad Johnson, in selectively quoting DB (from these comments) actually told a bald-faced lie.
This makes me wonder if ol’ BJ realizes he took the “Republicans-caused-the-tornadoes” routine a bit too far. Probably not, though; these people have tin ears.
And we know there will be no apology, since Johnson has no shame. It’s incredible that hippies try to seize the moral high ground, considering they’re so ethically challenged.
[...] Brad Johnson’s hopes, NOAA shoots down the idea that global warming had anything to do with the record tornado storms [...]
[...] to Marc Morano. Brad wasn’t pleased, he doubled down on stupid in a twitter response (see the updated post). I replied in turn: @climatebrad FYI: quoting a comment out of context isn’t the same [...]
Brad responds on Twitter with a selective quote from the comments to make it seem as if I think Tornadoes are fun:
Thanks for the kind comments, sometimes this is so much fun it hardly counts as work ;)
No problem Cole, it happens.
oops, got a mixed messege there. :)
These people truly have no shame.
Global-warming-climate-change-disruption-weirding has been revealed in all its ghastly ugliness, revealed as the pathetic political movement it always was. You at DB have my sincerest thanks for what you do, and for doing it with style and wit.
The Daily Bayonet has done yeoman work in bringing these stories front and center. LONG LIVE THE BAYONET!
How the hell does NOAA get off blaming this on warming? When we “were” in the strongest parts of the warming trend there were less storms. It is more than obvious that the cooling from LA NINA is causing dramatic differences between the fronts. This is not caused by “agw” it is caused by natural variation cooling.
Odd that the left does not blame the gay community or Africans for aids. Or tatoos for creating swolen prison populations. And I wonder what the blind have done to deserve their loss?
This is exactly the same as when New Orleans’ vices were blamed for Katrina. Religious zealots are the same the world over.
[...] Hippies heart disaster [...]
So predictable.
If they are still quoting Trenberth they’ve pretty much conceded the argument. And, if any Progressive had a sense of shame we’d be in an alternate Universe.
Doth thoust not understand thy mighty Gaia God hath smote thine heretics. See from the heavens thine proof and repent.
The best part of the article:
…climate scientist Kevin Trenberth warned the American Meteorological Society in January that “Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warning rather than the inane statements along the lines of ‘of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.’”
Isn’t that how you prove the existence of God…?