The Words Fox News Won’t Use When Covering Texas Tornadoes: Global Warming

On today’s Your World, meteorologist Janice Dean gave a report on the two tornadoes in the Dallas, Texas area as well as tornado watches elsewhere in Texas and other states. After she noted that such storm activity is a rarity, Cavuto asked her the cause.

Cavuto asked, “What is causing this? Last year was the second-busiest tornado season on record. This season is keeping pace with that… What’s driving it?”

Dean acknowledged that there was an “unusually warm winter” and “above-average numbers” of tornados for January, February, March and now April. She added that many places in the country have set “all time highs” in warmth. Then she went on to suggest that maybe the difference this time is that tornados are hitting urban areas instead of “cornfields” “where no one lives.”

But the words “global warming” never crossed either Dean’s or Cavuto’s lips.

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commented 2012-04-04 15:43:21 -0400 · Flag

Ellen’s obsessed stalker Johnny Dollar has a post up, which he tweeted to Janice Dean, smearing and distorting what Ellen said here. I did a little hunting and discovered that in his effort to make Ellen look uninformed he edited a quote from an NOAA article to completely change its meaning. Here’s a screengrab to show you what he did:
http://ow.ly/i/y1yo/original

commented 2012-04-04 11:31:23 -0400 · Flag

The insurance industry is beginning to take notice of climate change as their bottom line is hit hard by all of this unusual and extreme weather. Scientists can’t convince the rightwing that climate change is real, but when the insurance industry gets noisy about this, Fox will probably fall in line, after all there is no higher authority for them than some CEO with a super-high income.

commented 2012-04-04 10:31:02 -0400 · Flag

Global warming will only exist if and when Fux Noise says it does.

commented 2012-04-04 02:03:24 -0400 · Flag

So…is the betting open on how quickly Governor Goodhair puts in his request for disaster relief? (If so, put me down for 9:43am CDT, 4/4/12. I doubt I’ll win the pool, but one can always hope.)

And also, what about the betting for when the GOP-led House decides to require that any disaster relief aid be offset by cuts to other parts of the budget? (I’m willing to call that—either from Ryan or Boehner—at 1:26pm EDT, 4/5/12.)

I won’t even bother betting on when FoxNoise suggests that global warming or climate change plays any part. (I’ve got a feeling that Jay-Z and Beyonce will have a #1 country hit before FoxNoise would give global warming even the least bit of credence.)

commented 2012-04-03 22:17:27 -0400 · Flag

There are tornadoes in areas across Canada that have seldom, if ever, seen any in the past. And their frequency is rising in urban areas never touched before. Must be God clearing out some squatters.

commented 2012-04-03 20:50:56 -0400 · Flag

The supreme irony is that the areas of the country that should be really concerned about the effects of climate change are the ‘reddest’ of the states. And, of course, it will be Obama’s fault when those effects painfully evident.