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Global warming must be a hoax -- it snowed in Russia!

February 24, 2010 4:09 pm ET by Jamison Foser

It snowed in Moscow -- Moscow, mind you, not Havana -- and so National Review's Greg Pollowitz was compelled to make a crack about global warming:

I can only assume conservative journalists are compelled to take some sort of oath never to let facts or science get in the way of a bad joke.

UPDATE: A reminder:

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    • Author by mustardman (February 24, 2010 4:24 pm ET)
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      In another time these same people would be denying the world is round and not surrounded by dragons. So their place in history is assured.
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    • Author by clearstate (February 24, 2010 4:27 pm ET)
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      Doesn't it snow like 11 months out of the year in Russia?
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      • Author by shaggles (February 24, 2010 5:18 pm ET)
           
        It used to. ;) No. I don't know how much it snows in Russia. I do know the people in Northern Europe see first hand the effects of warmer seas and Artic ice melting away and it's a lot harder to deny than it is somewhere where it's always warm anyway.
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    • Author by raine315 (February 24, 2010 4:31 pm ET)
         
      Tea Baggin Science Home Skewl Course 101
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      • Author by rumpleteasermom (February 24, 2010 6:01 pm ET)
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        HEY! Leave us homeschoolers out of it. Yeah, I know there are lots of wackjob wingnuts that homeschool. But they don't represent all of us any more than the Tea Partiers represent the whole of America.

        ;-)
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    • Author by dmhack (February 24, 2010 4:39 pm ET)
         
      Remember back in the good old days when political prisoners were forced to endure the unforgiving heat of a Siberian winter?

      Damn you, Al Gore!
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    • Author by rtejon (February 24, 2010 4:48 pm ET)
         
      Aside from what makes this a dumb post on their part, I'm pretty darn sick of their obsolete characterizations of modern Russia, too.
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    • Author by Old_Benjamin (February 24, 2010 4:59 pm ET)
         
      Wait - in just a moment rightOn/Tommy will be along to explain the irony in this story.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (February 24, 2010 4:59 pm ET)
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      Yuk, yuk, yuk... Stupid and proud of it.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (February 24, 2010 5:07 pm ET)
         
      Hmmm, didn't they have a lot of snow and cold weather back in WWII? Seems it was cold enough and snowy enough to stop Hitler's invasion.
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    • Author by truthseeker77 (February 24, 2010 5:07 pm ET)
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      Note how the news article says "half a meter" of snow, to make it sound like an unprecedented amount. Because Bloomberg News knows that Americans would not be shocked to know that Half a meter is 18 or 19 inches. We got 21 inches in NYC last year, I believe, and we get over 2 feet in many places often.
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      • Author by SLRTX (February 24, 2010 9:56 pm ET)
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        truthseeker77 --

        Do you really think the denialists know 1/2 a meter is 18-19 inches?

        They don't want to get all confused with that metric stuff.

        A meter is waaaayyyyy larger than a yard. And a yard goes all the way to the fence line, then over to that rock, then over to that tree, then over to that road. And that's a big yard.

        All denialists know that! ;-)
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        • Author by John Paradox (February 24, 2010 11:22 pm ET)
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          And a yard goes all the way to the fence line, then over to that rock, then over to that tree, then over to that road.

          Gee, I thought the yard was outlined by the broken washer, the car up on blocks, the hole where the septic tank is, and the outhouse.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (February 24, 2010 5:21 pm ET)
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      I was reading last year that the mayor of Moscow was going to try seeding the clouds to get it to snow before it got to Moscow. The idea being that the city would save money on snow removal, if they could get it to snow out before the storm clouds got to Moscow.


      I don't know if they actually tried to do this but; maybe they missed.
      "Opps, didn't seed the clouds far enough away from the city."
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    • Author by bintx (February 24, 2010 6:58 pm ET)
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      Well, we have broken all records this winter for snow in WEST TEXAS. Blizzard on Christmas Eve [never, ever, ever had a blizzard here in recorded history], and over a foot of snow so far with more snow in the forecast on Sunday/Monday. My grandmother is almost 100 years old and she doesn't remember us ever having weather like this. This weather is completely off the charts bizarre for us. Is it climate change/global warming? I don't know, but it's pretty darned crazy.
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    • Author by SLRTX (February 24, 2010 10:04 pm ET)
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      Let's see....

      The global temperature anomaly is now at +0.6 deg C.

      So, if Moscow is normally -9 to -5 C (0 C is freezing to you non-metric folks) this time of year, then -8.4 to -4.4 C is still cold enough to snow.

      Now the problem is, where did all that moisture come from?
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      • Author by galileonardo (February 25, 2010 10:35 pm ET)
           
        Wow. You finally figured out how to use the link function. You metric folk sure is shmart.
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