The snark in the Washington Times’ recent Valerie Richardson’s piece, “Al Gore’s Climate-Changers at EPA Hearings Foiled by Cool Temperatures” was too much for CNN’s Bill Weir, who read it after it was picked up by FOX Nation.
Weir tweeted his contempt for climate change deniers at FOX, and presumably, the Washington Times, who use the term “global warming” literally, to mean that temperatures will always increase, everywhere, every day. Instead, climate change scientists see an increase over time, with extremes like cold snaps in summer and winter blizzards from increased moisture in the atmosphere as part of the problem. Anyone who has watched the video narrated by former Vice Pres. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, understands.
Speaking of Gore, the deniers were smirking because Gore’s Climate Reality Project (CRP), which tries to raise awareness of climate change, attended an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing in Denver, one of several in cities nationwide. The hearings on limiting carbon pollution, the main greenhouse gas, were held as a freak summer cold spell plunged temperatures in the middle of the country to record lows and brought flooding rains to many areas. CRP brought ice cream to hand out to protestors, in mistaken anticipation of warm weather.
If you’d like to understand more about the sometimes counter-intuitive manifestations of climate change, take a look at this video produced by the Climate Reality Project and narrated by Bill Nye. If only they had done so at FOX Nation and the Washington Times.
