UPDATED: Winter weather headlines Drudge won't touch
Written by Eric Boehlert
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Give Matt Drudge credit, at least he's for trying.
I've been having lots of fun highlighting the GOP Noise Machine's reluctance to acknowledge that the world's attention is about to turn to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver where there's basically no snow because the region is suffering through an historically warm winter season.
That, of course, runs counter to the Noise Machine's beloved "brain freeze" meme about how climate change doesn't exists because in some places it's really, really cold and snowy this winter. They don't want to have to explain how an extended Canadian heat wave fits into that anti-reaons claim. (i.e. If climate = science, than what does a warm climate mean?)
So Drudge managed to find a news article, albeit from an India news source, that reports it's finally snowing in Vancouver:
Olympics-Snow finally falls in Vancouver -- three days before competition begins!
That narrative certainly runs counter to news reports not from India (like from North America), which are quite clear that this will be, at least at the outset, a snow-less Olympics. Because there `aint no white stuff on the way:
METRO VANCOUVER - Rain and above-seasonal temperatures are expected to dampen the first day of Olympic events Saturday at Cypress Mountain.
In fact, here's the Weather Channel's weekend forecast for the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics:
Can't wait to see the Fox News crew explain how nearly 50 degree February days in Canada proves climate change is for suckers.