re: Not so fast Global Warming fans

MattB — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:12:04 GMT

Tom -- True, one isolated warm spell in winter does not a warm globe make, but in 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Al Gore taught me that when the has warmed and cooled previously (ice ages, warming after ice ages, etc.,) this warming/cooling came on quickly and was ushered by extreme weather - not necessariy extreme in the direction of the general trend, but extreme in terms of intensity and precip amount. So seeing what is going on in Colorado does not in my mind disprove that we're still warming as a trend.

re: Not so fast Global Warming fans

Realist — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:15:25 GMT

Wow! I thought I had misheard the comments from Tom Russell on last night's broadcast. In my opinion, this ridiculously simplistic argument, in tandem with a clear agenda to discredit the majority of the world's scientific community, displays a complete lack of journalistic integrity as well as making me sincerely doubt his scientific credibility. Journalists are meant to offer facts, not personal opinions. Scientists (of which I presume a meteoroligist would consider himself a member), doubly so. I will find another source for weather information in the future.

To claim warming is is not "global", if every inch of the surface is not warmer than the previous year, is ludicrous. Doesn't your broadcast claim that the midstate received 2-3 inches of snow this year?. Well, we've only had about an inch at my house. And in my living room, there has been zero. By your own logic, your snowfall claim should be completely discredited. C'mon!