The weather for the last few days has been colder than normal. There would be no doubt that the Fox News misinforming talking heads would be out in droves. They did not disappoint. Jon Stewart did a segment on various Fox News talking heads making a mockery out of science. His segment included a rather graphic skit that shows the absurdity of climate change deniers. Some Fox News believers may actually get it if they open up their minds to rational thinking. Check it out here.
One could contend that one of the reasons misinformation metastasizes into the brains of otherwise rational people is the lack of pushback from otherwise reputable sources. What is sad is that reputable sources generally have more viewers and listeners. As an example, NBC’s morning show averaged 4.975 million viewers. Rush Limbaugh gets a dubious 1.4 million.
The portion of society desiring fact based information got a welcomed broadside this week. Al Roker gave one of his standard meteorological segments on the Today Show. He explained that this abnormal cold blast was caused by a ‘polar vortex.’ He described the ‘polar vortex’ as a polar hurricane that broke loose and released the extreme cold to the south that is not normally experienced.
Rush Limbaugh in his eternal ignorance said the ‘polar vortex’ term was just created for this week. Rush Limbaugh’s attack on global warming/climate change was no different than the attack by his Right Wing ilk at Fox News.
Al Roker lays into the ‘polar vortex’ doubters.
Al Roker would have none of it. It took it on head first. He said many folks think the ‘polar vortex’ talk is some left wing conspiracy.
“This is from my textbook from college, the Glossary of Meteorology from the Meteorological Society copyright 1959,” Al Roker said. “OK and here we go. Take a look right here OK. ‘Polar vortex’, there it is OK. So for all the doubters out there, STUFF IT.”
More talking heads in the media who want to be considered fact based should take this up. They should challenge lies and misinformation head on. It would return some modicum of credibility to the traditional media.
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Climate Change is the reality, not global warming. With magnetic declination it is reasonable to expect more variations of the polar vortex. Bear in mind this drew warmer air over areas that store our reservoir of fresh water, that will melt in these warm surges raising the sea levels. Alaska warmer than Florida.
June 24, 1974 TIME Magazine suggests “Circumpolar Vortex” phenomenon to be part of “global cooling” … January 6, 2014 TIME Magazine speculates that “Polar Vortex” could be attributed to “global warming” …
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Rush didn’t lie…HE JUST TOOK A PAE OUT OF OBAMAS BOOK..
ok that makes a lot of sense, sandra, the same kind of sense the rest of us with at least two brain cells to rub together have had to listen from you idiots for years.
I guess cap lock stops spell check, What book are you referencing? I didn’t know President Obama wrote a book denying climate change. Yes Sandra Baraka Obama is the elected leader of our country, he is of mixed race and is serving his second term get over it.
Rush is a Used Kotex
So the climate deniers, fueled by corporations with vested interest in polluting, claim a one off cold snap, isolated to one country of the WORLD is proof against global warming? Even if they don’t buy that the ‘vortex’ is the cause, this type of extreme weather was predicted as a consequence of climate change. The area is in the middle of winter. Colder winters and hotter summers are predicted.
Forgetting that however, (and the fact that the world is not contained to North America) Australia had its hottest year on record and parts of the country are sweltering in record heat. By the same token, is this then proof of global warming?
My mother always referred to Rush Limbaugh as a”pompous phoof”. Now I am not certain that I know what a phoof is but for damn sure I know pompous when I hear Rush Limbaugh.
Who’s Rush Limberger? And why is everyone concerned what he says? So confused…
Apply cold water from the polar vortex to that BURN!!!
Al Rocks! He even guested on Seinfeld.
Wow, there is miss-information on both sides here. The polar vortex is not caused by climate change, its sift toward the equator is. All planets with an atmosphere have these cyclones at both poles. But if you read up on why these cyclones shift off of the poles on Earth, the explanation is that reduction in snow/ice on the poles means less sun-light is reflected back into space, which warms the air, creating an expanding warm high pressure area that pushes the low pressure vortex off of the pole. And this did happen last year, twice. Early winter over Arabia, and late winter (March) over the United States.