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Beck says "Al Gore is full of crap" due to VA snowstorm, promises to idle his SUV to prevent future storm

January 29, 2010 10:57 am ET

From the January 29 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by fishgirl26 (January 29, 2010 11:02 am ET)
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      Ok, here's a primer for all you climate deniers out there. Global warming is about GLOBAL CLIMATE and NOT just the weather!!! If Glenn ever got out more (but that would be impossible because his blinders only allow him to see 5 feet in front of himself) perhaps he might notice the glaciers melting in South America or massive flooding in China.
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      • Author by seahawks123 (January 29, 2010 12:25 pm ET)
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        Bull. China is having it's coldest winter in decades. Where are the glaciers in South America?
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        • Author by FDR_democrat (January 29, 2010 12:36 pm ET)
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          I think I may have found those South American glaciers:

          They weren't really that hard to find.
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          • Author by ChaseBrown (January 29, 2010 1:29 pm ET)
               
            Hey, FDR, that was really cool. I hope Fishgirl followed up on it.
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          • Author by liberalXtian (January 29, 2010 2:07 pm ET)
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            Took me ten seconds to Google "South American glaciers". Why do these people write and say things that are so easily proven wrong.
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            • Author by mescal (January 29, 2010 9:28 pm ET)
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              It could be that they're stupid.

              More likely, though, is that they foolishly assume that THE REST of us are stupid.
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              • Author by John Paradox (January 31, 2010 6:49 pm ET)
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                People tend to assume that others are just like them.

                You expect people to be rational......
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        • Author by seahawks123 (January 29, 2010 12:57 pm ET)
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          The China Post 1/13/10 "

          Remaining optimistic while facing Europe's coldest winter in 30 years. And China is haveing the worst winter in 100 years. That's a huge part of the world. Maybe part of the climate.
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          • Author by peace4all (January 29, 2010 1:20 pm ET)
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            sooo..you think that climate and land mass are the same thing? interesting.
            but really, climate is not just over the land masses, it also covers the oceans. thats why we call it "Global" climate. see? thats the trouble with you wing nuts, you just can't seem to get your head around the big picture.
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          • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 2:26 pm ET)
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            ha ha very funny seaweed. "Remaining Optimistic While Facing Europe's Coldest Winter in 30 Years" is not from an article about the weather, it is the name of a Comentary written by Richard Quest of CNN on a referendum coming up in March on whether Iceland should be forced to pay back money to England and The Netherlands.
            http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/special-to-the-china-post/2010/01/13/240534/p1/Remaining-optimistic.htm

            It does not mention anything about China having the worst winter in 100 years as it has nothing to do with the weather there. Jackazz
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            • Author by magnolialover (January 29, 2010 3:23 pm ET)
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              And, once again, we have our local trolling buddies not reading their links.
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        • Author by thruth (January 31, 2010 10:25 am ET)
             
          But Australia is having the longest run in years of heat waves and bush-fires.
          Climate change is about human impact screwing with the levels and intensity of weather patterns either with emissions and or HAARP.
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      • Author by ABBA|Proudly teaBAGGING Liberals (January 29, 2010 1:11 pm ET)
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        hey fishgirl - that like the glaciers melting in the Himalayas, gone in 2035 according the warmingmongers... PROVEN and ADMITTED WRONG....

        Of course it will be about global climate change until making about the weather suits you all...

        FACT: Global Climate change is REAL. It has been real since the earth began. The deniers are those that deny climate change occurred and continues to occur with little or no human impact... denier....

        and a little information for you, the REALITY is that the weather and climate are irrevocably intertwined... enought with the left-wing nut talking points...

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        • Author by peace4all (January 29, 2010 1:34 pm ET)
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          yes, global climate change happens on a continous basis. however, that does not mean, and their is ample data to show that man has had an effect at increasing the spped at which the change is occuring. thats why you are part of the deniers crowd. your like a drug addict that caan't see that he is affecting those around him. his excuse is that hey, i'm the one taking the drug. i can do what i want. i am the only one who gets hurt. but we know thats not true. you guys that want to deny mad has an effect on the planet need to wake up really. we already have the capibilty to wipe out most life on the planet now with nukes. if we can wipe out the world in minutes, don't you think it might be possible to alter our enviroment negatively over the course of decades with the amount of pollution we release? and while weather and climate are related, they are not the same. weather is a localized event and climate is what drives that weather, either regionally or globaly.
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    • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 11:02 am ET)
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      Glenn do you not understand the concept of climate change. One of the problems of climate change is that storms will be come more violent and stonger?
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (January 29, 2010 11:11 am ET)
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        BECK: "Uh...no. But did you know that the letters of CLIMATE also spell 'I ATE CLAMS?' Ahaaaa...!"
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      • Author by davemccarthymusic9410 (January 29, 2010 12:29 pm ET)
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        he's playing to his base. People want simple solutions to complex issues, so "it's just weather patterns" works much better than "big businesses have lined politicians' pockets so they can render the atmosphere FUBAR with impunity". Beck lovers lap it up. And not for nothing, as long as our educational system is kept in the crapper, self-styled "populists" like Glenn will easily garner a following...
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    • Author by nerzog (January 29, 2010 11:04 am ET)
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      Let's see... three weeks ago it was down in the teens here in Tennessee. Unusually cold. Last week it was in the mid 60s, rained all week. Now we're under a winter storm warning. No, nothing unusual going on here.
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      • Author by worrierking (January 29, 2010 11:26 am ET)
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        On January 24, 2010 the temperature reached 51 degrees in
        New York. On the 25th the high was 55 degrees.

        Funny that Beck never mentioned those temperatures.
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        • Author by mjh (January 29, 2010 11:44 am ET)
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          A couple of weeks ago, it was in the 70's here in the San Diego area.
          He never mentioned that, either . . .

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          • Author by magnolialover (January 29, 2010 3:23 pm ET)
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            Never mind, also, that just the other day, in DC, it was almost 65. Pretty warm, for January.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (January 29, 2010 11:06 am ET)
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      Glenn, sometimes I forget what a self-centered prick you are and then you do something and I remember that you're not really just a sad, delusioned idiot, but a cold-hearted, ill-tempered, ill-intensioned, evil nutjob of a self-centered prick. Thanks for reminding me.
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    • Author by markbfoot199 (January 29, 2010 11:08 am ET)
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      FYI, the hoax is up. Lets move forward.
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 11:10 am ET)
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        Yeah the hoax of dinialism is up, lets move forward and stop this from happening
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      • Author by MickD (January 29, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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        Your scientific basis for this assertion is freakishly sound. Emphasis on freak.
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      • Author by bintx (January 29, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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        I guess, mark, that because you disbelieve that there is global climate change that it makes you more "conservative." Explain to me why ignoring MOUNTAINS of scientific evidence is "conservative."

        Explain to me why this issue is part of your ridiculous "us v. them" game? Seriously. Is it just because your heroes have told you it should be? As a Christian, you should be concerned with being a good steward of the creation God gave us. It would seem, based upon your derisive comments that you'd rather listen to a bunch of overpaid entertainers pushing their corporate meme.
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        • Author by christopher howard (January 29, 2010 11:24 am ET)
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          "Explain to me why ignoring MOUNTAINS of scientific evidence is 'conservative.'"

          They do it with evolution, so why not climate change? You have to remember, when discussing science, that this is the same ideology that is home to the YEC crowd.
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          • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 11:28 am ET)
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            And don't forget about cigarrettes not causing cancer, that oil is not a limited resource, the earth is only 6,000 years old, that man walked the earth with dinosaurs, that the earth is flat and the universe revolves around it.
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            • Author by kfraz43 (January 29, 2010 12:16 pm ET)
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              I watched "Land of the Lost" as a kid. The dinosaur thing is true.

              /sarcasm
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        • Author by nerzog (January 29, 2010 11:30 am ET)
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          Because, that's what Rush and Glenn told Conservatives to believe. What else do they need?
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        • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 11:30 am ET)
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          I would not call the deniers Christians, but rather zealots that believe that the rapture is coming, so it doesn't matter if we save the planet or not.
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          • Author by bintx (January 29, 2010 12:36 pm ET)
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            You misunderstand what I'm saying. Mark claims to be a Christian conservative. I'm a Christian conservative. A TRUE Christian conservative would observe the Biblical admonition that we are to be good stewards of God's creation. Mark's adherence to the corporate-controlled Fox/hate talk radio's meme that denial of global warming is the "conservative Christian" belief would tend to negate his claims of being a conservative Christian. Just saying.
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            • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 2:13 pm ET)
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              I do understand what you are saying. I am saying the ones who deny global warming because they feel that the end of times is near, so it doesn't matter how we treat the planet, or they take the Ann Coulter approach of God put us on here to use the planet, so raping it is permited by God.
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        • Author by markbfoot199 (January 29, 2010 12:39 pm ET)
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          I agree you should be a good steward of the creation, but why tax me to do just that task. This GW hoax is all about greed. The Mountains of Data continues on a daily basis, shown to be created to get money.

          http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece

          http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html

          http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574559630382048494.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html
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          • Author by bintx (January 29, 2010 12:50 pm ET)
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            You understand that an ice age is completely withing the purview of global warming, right?

            Again, you claim to be a conservative and a Christian. If you believe the crap that you posted above, then you are neither. Two of your links are entities owned by News Corp. One is a tabloid newspaper [think National Enquirer] and the other calls itself a "conservative" news source. Nice try, though, mark. You aren't a conservative, you are a Fox/hate talk radio groupie. Try actually reading SCIENTIFIC information instead of self-serving articles posted on conservative websites and tabloids. Just because a website supports your beliefs, doesn't mean that it is posting truth.

            BTW, I'm not an Al Gore fan, so that post was completely irrelevant.
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          • Author by liberalXtian (January 29, 2010 2:21 pm ET)
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            Global warming is a hoax brought about by greed? Yes, I hate those greedy climate scientists flaunting their wealth and power.

            But, really, who has more of a financial stake? It is Big Oil, energy conglomerates and the politicians who are influenced by their donations that stand to lose. The greed is on the side of the deniers.
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            • Author by goonhee9633 (January 29, 2010 2:50 pm ET)
                 
              Exactly liberalIXtian. The right wing argument explaining the motivation for progressive/liberal beliefs always brings up nebulous factors of "power", "control", and throws in psychological aberrations, angst etc., whereas the motivation for them is quite simple: I've got mine (as much or as little as that might be), and I'll be darned if someone is going to take any of it away from me. Yep, I'll bet this whole climate change thing was made up to make millionares out of all those poor peer reviewed scientists. Thank God we have deep pocket special interest groups to hire some dissenters so we can keep the earth going in the right direction (into the toydee).
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        • Author by ABBA|Proudly teaBAGGING Liberals (January 29, 2010 1:27 pm ET)
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          hmmm. bintx - "legal professional"...

          See good steward ship involves UNDERSTANDING the REALITY, not just taking the mountain of proven FAKE data at face value... It has been proven that the warmingmongers ILLEGALLY withheld RAW data regarding their predictions....

          AGAIN: It's fairly obvious that climate change happens. NOT so obvious that humans have all that much say...

          When the money grubbing warmmongers, like algore and his supporters (cisco, oracle, microsoft, berkshire hathoway, progrssive insurance to name a few) hype all the "evidence" (well, manufacture evidence) it makes the arrogant claims seem proposterous even IF they have some merit. Just the same as attacking all the people that bring up opposing views as deniers and stupid... It's why climategate surfaced, people getting tired of the SO CALLED "established sciendce", which is neither, established or science....
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          • Author by Johaely (January 29, 2010 8:35 pm ET)
               
            So thousands of scientist and most countries are on the hoax. This for some reason make illuminati conspiracies seem logical.
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          • Author by raddave43 (January 30, 2010 12:24 am ET)
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            As opposed to those "honest scientists" that came up with the intelligent design thing? Where is the proof that "warmingmongers" illegally witheld RAW data? The data they used was public information to begin with.
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    • Author by txthinker (January 29, 2010 11:10 am ET)
         
      Once again, someone is confusing "weather" (conditions in a particular area over a short period of time - 3 weeks or less) with "climate" (the average of those conditions over a longer period of time - years, decades, centuries, etc).
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    • Author by pete592 (January 29, 2010 11:11 am ET)
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      So now Virgina's weather is evidence of a lack of climate change? What about weather elsewhere?

      My town:

      Statewide, snowpack levels were at 66% of average.

      Snowpack experts said it's a far reach from where the area usually measures this time of year.

      USDA snow supervisor John Lea explained just last week that Mt. Hood would need about five more feet of snow to reach "normal" levels.

      This as the Portland Metro area will likely finish the month with the second-warmest January on record, according to KGW Meteorologist Rod Hill.

      And the entire Pacific Northwest...

      The rest of the nation might be suffering from winter weather, but parts of the Northwest could be on track for a record warm month.

      Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington, says temperatures "are amazingly above normal." He says if the weather pattern continues, Seattle could have the warmest January in its history.

      The National Weather Service says the average temperature so far this month in Seattle is 7 degrees above normal. Spokane and Portland also are having much warmer weather. The reason, experts say, is the El Nino weather phenomenon - the same periodic weather pattern that is slamming California with heavy rain and snow.

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      • Author by twseattle (January 29, 2010 12:35 pm ET)
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        Pete592 Cliff Mass' weather blogis one of My favorite websites. Sure, it focuses on Seattle but He explains all the Northwest weather patterns while they happen.
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      • Author by soze169880 (January 29, 2010 1:24 pm ET)
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        I live in Richmond, and our weather the past couple of weeks has been spring-warm. If anything, a snowstorm proves that something is seriously amiss.
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    • Author by bintx (January 29, 2010 11:15 am ET)
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      80+ here last Friday, 25 with ice today. That's called West Texas WEATHER. First blizzard EVER in recorded history in our area on Christmas Eve . . . that's called "climate change."
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    • Author by rtejon (January 29, 2010 11:28 am ET)
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      I know some pretty reactionary people but even they would consider idling an SUV on purpose to be a stupid waste of money.
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      • Author by DellDolly (January 29, 2010 2:55 pm ET)
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        If someone needs to idle an SUV, then do it. If someone needs to drive an SUV because they have a larger family and they need something that can tow, then go for it. But for too many people, they didn't need that SUV. Now that gas prices are going up, they're trading in those bigger vehicles that they didn't need.

        That's all we ask. We realize that people need to fly, and drive, and live, but excesses should discontinue to help the next generations. And Beck says that he will disregard the next generation's best outcomes for his own partisan successes.
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    • Author by mjh (January 29, 2010 11:39 am ET)
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      Beck says "Al Gore is full of crap" due to VA snowstorm, promises to idle his SUV to prevent future storm


      Why do I have the feeling that, as soon as summer gets here, these wingnut noisemakers will no longer be using weather reports to deny global warming?

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    • Author by PurpleState (January 29, 2010 12:01 pm ET)
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      Glenn, you DID this before. You ran your car during a snowstorm on the Glenn Beck show in protest of this "scam".

      Come up with original material, K?
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    • Author by dimes (January 29, 2010 12:03 pm ET)
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      I wish the man no ill, but this would be newsworthy only if a hose and closed garage were involved.
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    • Author by seahawks123 (January 29, 2010 12:28 pm ET)
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      You know 30 years we were heading for an ice age. And the earth hasn't warmed in 10 years. More and more people are seeing just how full of it your "The sky is falling!!!!" is. Oh yeah, man has more to do with the flucuation in the earth teps than the Sun. And the fact that the Earth has been warming and cooling since it was made right?
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      • Author by pete592 (January 29, 2010 12:33 pm ET)
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        How many parts per million of CO2 is too much for our atmosphere?
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      • Author by PurpleState (January 29, 2010 12:37 pm ET)
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        You know 30 years we were heading for an ice age.
        Links please.

        And the earth hasn't warmed in 10 years.
        Links please.

        More and more people are seeing just how full of it your "The sky is falling!!!!" is.
        Links please.

        "Google it yourself!"

        That's not a quote from you, but I'm expecting it.
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      • Author by bintx (January 29, 2010 12:42 pm ET)
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        You do understand that an ice age is completely within the purview of global warming/climate change, right? When the earth's temperature fluctuates, it brings about CLIMATE change. Climate is the pattern of WEATHER [individual events] over a period of time. When the earth's temperature rises, it creates a chain of events which causes climate changes in specific areas. Cold climates become warmer, warmer climates become colder, rain forests suffer drought, deserts become lakes. Keep up, big bird, and try really hard to LISTEN to people who actually have the education to know what they are talking about. A clue: Beck isn't one of those people.
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      • Author by soze169880 (January 29, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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        More and more people are seeing just how full of it your "The sky is falling!!!!" is

        I assume you're addressing this to George W. Bush after he lost Congress. Seriously, is there anything richer than REPUBLICANS accusing anyone of fearmongering for political gain?
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      • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 2:32 pm ET)
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        pay no attention to seaweed, the quote he had above about "Remaining Optimistic While Facing Europe's Coldest Winter in 30 Years" from the China Post 1/13/2010 is the name of a Comentary about a referendum coming up in March on whether Iceland should be forced to pay back loans to Britain and The Netherlands and has nothing to do with the weather

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      • Author by raddave43 (January 29, 2010 2:46 pm ET)
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        True that 1998 was the hottest year on record, but the last ten years have been the hotttest decade on record.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 29, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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      Beck says "Al Gore is full of crap" due to VA snowstorm, promises to idle his SUV to prevent future storm

      Climate and weather are two seperate things.

      SMH!
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (January 29, 2010 2:00 pm ET)
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      Again- why do people continue to respond to Global Climate Change Deniers? What is the point? If morons repeatedly posted here claiming to believe that the earth is six thousand years old and the first humans looked exactly like they do today, would we bother to respond, even if they bleated "Evolution and the Multi-billion year old earth are SCAMS?"

      I don't know why anyone would bother- I don't try to convince children that there's no Santa Claus, and I don't try to convince fundamentalists that dinosaurs didn't drown because they couldn't fit on to Noah's Ark. And I don't waste my time with pea-brained losers who want to pretend that global climate change isn't happening, and isn't being accelerated by human activity. It just isn't worth it to me- can anyone explain?
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (January 29, 2010 2:09 pm ET)
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        Some folks is feisty.

        Some is for the lurkers.

        My response varies. There are a few wingnuts I don't usually even read anymore. If there's a response I usually read that.
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    • Author by I'mRight (January 29, 2010 2:48 pm ET)
         
      i think what you people fail to understand is that Glenn doesn't believe in globle warming, so he makes jokes about every cold weather event. taking short clips out of his 20 hours a week that he talks to the nation is childish.

      everyone believed the earth was warming and did so for maybe a little over a decade, well now understand that the world is on a 10 year cooling cycle and maybe its just what our planet does. remimber not to long before the warming there was a panic about the cooling.

      call me crazy, and I'm sure most of you will, but it sounds like a natural cycle of the Earth. we just started recording this stuff so lets learn before we spread the wealth around the world our country needs all our wealth
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    • Author by reanna-mator (January 29, 2010 5:02 pm ET)
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      Okay guys, I think we're deep enough in this. Can we call Captain Planet now?
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