As our friend Digby noted after re-tweeting this genius/grifter/federal felon: “I just wanted to share some thoughts from the intellectual wing of the conservative movement”…
According to liberal reasoning, the true and obvious cause of massive snow blizzards is…global warming!
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 27, 2015
If hot summers demonstrate global warming, why don't cold winters demonstrate global cooling? pic.twitter.com/R0QIZdGZlt
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 27, 2015
I had retweeted him as well. With comment. Those comments, and one from an actual scientist, follow below…
U really that dumb? RT @DineshDSouza: If hot summers demonstrate global warming, why don't cold winters demonstrate global cooling?
— Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) January 28, 2015
Coincidentally, scientific reasoning too. RT @DineshDSouza: Accordng 2 liberal reasoning, cause of massive snow blizzards is global warming!
— Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) January 28, 2015
For a less snarky response, from actual climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, there’s this…
.@tomtomorrow Global temperature trends for all seasons via @IPCC_CH. Sorry @DineshDSouza, winters are WARMING: pic.twitter.com/NpsbRZlXP4
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) January 28, 2015
Since D’Souza, who the Rightwing regards as one of its smart ones, may have trouble with the scientific — I mean “liberal” — chart posted by Mann above, here’s a hint: “DJF” on the bottom right globe stands for “December January February”.
Amazing how much pride these idiots take in being criminally stupid.
I was working in a restaurant that was in the same building as the Dartmouth Review when this bozo was at Dartmouth. He’s been touted as this really smart guy for years. I think maybe people conflate glibness and being sincerely stupid with intelligence. Or something. ‘Course it really helps that he’s a dark skinned Ivy stupid. For a group known for the whiteness of their stupidity and racism, ethnic and stupid and racist are big selling points.
Simplistic (simpleton?) reasoning is the contemporary GOP’s stock in trade. Never mind that the simple response is “climate science predicts that besides higher average temperatures globally, there will be greater local variability – more heat equals more energy in the atmosphere, and that means more extreme weather events – including more winter weather extremes).