I didn’t think so! The BBC ran this today:
Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, has seen snow for the first time in 89 years, as a cold snap continues to grip several South American nations.
Temperatures plunged to -22C (-8F) in parts of Argentina’s province of Rio Negro, while snow fell on Buenos Aires for several hours on Monday.
Two deaths from exposure were reported in Argentina and one in Chile.
In Bolivia, heavy snowfall blocked the nation’s main motorway and forced the closure of several airports.
In Argentina, several provinces in the Andes have been placed under a storm alert, according to the national weather centre.
And as usial the enviromentalists chicken littles will blame this on GLOBAL WARMING and AL GORE will go down there to blame GEORGE W. BUSH and the GOP for this knowing what a crack-pot AL GORE is HEY AL ITS SNOWING IN ARGENTINA AND THE RESPLEDENT QUETZALS ARE WEARING PARKAS;)
Well of course this is due to GLOBAL WARMING!
Don’t you know that GLOBAL WARMING causes climate change, therefore by definition any climate change whatsoever, any anomaly, anything unusual, is deemed more evidence of human-caused GLOBAL WARMING!
Oh, and it’s also Bush’s fault!!!
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Robert your as much of a cracked urn as AL GORE and the rest of the eco-wacko community of wackos:”>
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Yes, I have decided to join AKD, SFL and others in Al Gore’s Church of Global Warming! :d/
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Speaking of Another Kool-aid Drinker, wonder where he’s been lately? Maybe staying at DemokRat Underground?
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I do have a couple of questions I never hear asked of the global warming crowd.
1: If the dinosaurs were cold blooded, how warm did it have to be in North America for one of the largest fossil beds in the world to be in South Dakota?
2: How many centuries will it take to raise the global temperature to the level experienced around the end of the first millenium?
3: Seeing as they are finding prehistoric men (ice mummies in either China or Russia) and mammals (mostly wooly mammoths, not an animal known for its minute food intake) preserved in glaciers that are still melting, wouldn’t that be a fair indication that the area now covered by the glacier was in fact exposed BEFORE the glacier formed?
1. Analyses of oxygen isotopes and study of bone structures in recovered fossils have lead many to believe that dinosaurs were warm blooded like birds, not cold blooded like reptiles.
2. impossible to say since natural variation is impossible to predict. Some say the current solar cylce will end around 2020 and we could experience “global cooling”. Since these glorified weathermen can’t tell me what the weather will be like next week, I have no faith in their predictions further out.
3. Yes, as would the viking farms melting out of greenland. How warm was it that they could subsistence farm there in the past?
Humanity owes it’s very existence to climate change. Going back to the dinosaurs the change in climate from the asteroid impact allowed an opening for mammals to thrive. The ice age 100,000 years ago forced the evolutionary response in our ancestors that created modern man. The end of that ice age 10,000 years ago created conditions that allowed for the beginning of human civilization. Even a few hundred years ago natural climate change made conditions in Europe ripe to spark the age of exploration which lead to the discovery of the new world. Human history is the story of our response to a changing world. To claim we can’t handle change with our modern technology when our ancestors handled far worse with little to no technology is proposterous.