It was reported yesterday that “a top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims” that the violent weather that has decimated parts of the southern United States are a result of global warming. This news could be a blow to environmentalists who, for years, have warned of the violent storms that will inevitably be brought about by global warming. While some liberals and environmentalists are still maintaining that global warming is the cause of the recent storms, it would appear that the evidence pretty clearly refutes this. Conservatives have, of course, held up these new findings to support the cause of global warming skepticism as liberals have sought to deny or downplay them.
It’s been interesting to see the ideologues change sides on the issue of science. Suddenly conservatives are championing scientific experts and their infallible research while liberals take up the mantle of skeptics and doubters. While this report isn’t likely to change the global warming debate in the long run, it is producing some amusing responses from climate change pundits. If nothing else, this news is helping to demonstrate how ideologically entrenched both sides are in this debate. When people are picking and choosing which scientific evidence they’ll believe based on how it affects their ideological goals reasoned debate has ceased to exist.
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Steve Michaels
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