How will Fox News link the snow storms in the NE and the recent earthquake to the Obama admin?

15 comments

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   Sidney on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   I imagine they will say that the snow proves that Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, the former future president, and President Obama invented climate change. But experts have been warning for years that human activity was affecting the climate. Years ago scientists called it the greenhouse effect. People who didn’t bother to find out what they were talking about thought that sounded nice and that they would probably enjoy it. When scientists began referring to it as global warming conservatives used a cold winter in one area to attempt to prove that it wasn’t happening. Finally experts found a word that even conservatives might understand, climate change. Right wingers also do not understand that moisture and temperature aren’t the same thing. In addition, the process of global warming is measured over the long term all worldwide. The unusual and severe weather we have experienced lately is actually one of the signs that the weather is changing, whether it is more severe storms, droughts, or floods. This is caused in part by rising temperatures in the oceans. Permafrost is also melting, permafrost is normally permanent as the name would indicate. There are natural changes in climate, but they are happening much more rapidly than ever before. Unfortunately conservatives pay no attention to facts or actual news. I realize that Republicans will say that I am making this up, so here are the facts from National Georgraphic and NASA:

   "• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.

   • Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana’s Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later.

   • Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise.

   • An upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms, is also attributed in part to climate change by some experts.

   • Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

   • The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century’s last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.

   • The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.

   The report, based on the work of some 2,500 scientists in more than 130 countries, concluded that humans have caused all or most of the current planetary warming. Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.

   • Industrialization, deforestation, and pollution have greatly increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, all greenhouse gases that help trap heat near Earth’s surface.

   • Humans are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than plants and oceans can absorb it.

   • These gases persist in the atmosphere for years, meaning that even if such emissions were eliminated today, it would not immediately stop global warming.

   A follow-up report by the IPCC released in April 2007 warned that global warming could lead to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on wildlife.

   • Sea level could rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century’s end, the IPCC’s February 2007 report projects. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could flood many South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.

   • Some hundred million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level, and much of the world’s population is concentrated in vulnerable coastal cities. In the U.S., Louisiana and Florida are especially at risk.

   • Glaciers around the world could melt, causing sea levels to rise while creating water shortages in regions dependent on runoff for fresh water.

   • Strong hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and other natural disasters may become commonplace in many parts of the world. The growth of deserts may also cause food shortages in many places.

   • More than a million species face extinction from disappearing habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.

   • The ocean’s circulation system, known as the ocean conveyor belt, could be permanently altered, causing a mini-ice age in Western Europe and other rapid changes.

   • At some point in the future, warming could become uncontrollable by creating a so-called positive feedback effect. Rising temperatures could release additional greenhouse gases by unlocking methane in permafrost and undersea deposits, freeing carbon trapped in sea ice, and causing increased evaporation of water."

   They will undoubtedly blame the President for earthquakes, but it is beyond me how they will do it.

   To the answerer who said that Katrina was Bush’s fault, no dear, the hurricane wasn’t his fault, but the lack of a timely reaction to it was.

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   bobbyrich32 on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   not sure but the right is always referring to him as the messiah so i’m sure they’ll figure it out

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   Enzyte Bob 9.0 on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   You mean how will the liberal media use this week’s snow storms to explain Obama’s rising unemployment numbers next month?

   http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Unemployment+claims+rise+on+snow-related+layoffs&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-901

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   Bethy on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   Probably through Global warming no wait that is liberals linking snow storms and earth quakes to global warming

   My bad

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   Answer Man on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   Obama stole Bushs weather machine.

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   Ryan on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   idk

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   Rob on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   I guess you believe its all global warming

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   Johnny Sokko on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   Possibly by pointing out that after the snowstorms, the Obama administration STILL buys into the hoax of global warming.

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   Ted Kennedy's Car on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

   simple – they will interview algore

   when you need junk science – go to the source

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    Agent99 on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    i guess he found a real old bottle of booze stashed in the oral office and oops he did it again -oh yea britanny was visitin’ LOL

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    spot the cat on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    they’ll find a way

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    Linda K Texan for Life on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    Obama coined a new word.

    Snowicane. LOL

    How stupid to call a blizzard a snowicane.

    Is he trying to liken a blizzard to a hurricane?

    How many blizzards have over 100mph winds?

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    Pragmatic1 on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    We don’t use those tactics….that is one out of your book. Remember, Katrina….that was Bush’s fault.

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    generousT on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    There is no way that Fox can link those disasters to the Obama administration. It’s impossible. Anyone in their right mind, who keeps up with the real news, who thinks for themselves, knows, beyond any doubt that these events were Bush’s fault. Anyway, Fox would first have to find the "Obama Administration" and we all know that there is no such thing! Unless it exists behind those closed doors no one can seem to penetrate. I think that it’s just a figment of Joe Biden’s imagination.

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    Jake Rather on March 2, 2010 at 6:34 am

    They won’t cause Al Goreble Worming has an earthquake machine, he’s working on another money making scam for all his stupid idiot followers to help with his scam.