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Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: February 11, 2010 . NYT
WASHINGTON - As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments.
Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change - this looks more like global cooling, they taunt.
Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events.
But some independent climate experts say the blizzards in the Northeast no more prove that the planet is cooling than the lack of snow in Vancouver or the downpours in Southern California prove that it is warming.
Then there is what the old Senator from Hawaii is doing...building an igloo in DC and mocking science.
Many here and in Washington remind me of the booboisie in Mencken's columns and in the movie Inherit the Wind. Why?
Because mocking science has proven time and time again to show the booboisie for what thewy truly are...idiots!