WaPo’s Tumulty: ‘Every Fifth Grader Could Tell You That Climate Change Refers to Unpredictable Weath

[IsailedawayfromFR]

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Washington Post National Political Correspondent Karen Tumulty reacted to President Trump’s tweet about global warming by stating the president is poking his critics and “every fifth grader could tell you that climate change refers to unpredictable weather patterns.”

Tumulty said, “I think what we think — what we’ve come to understand is he’s not going to stop doing it and that these tweets are not going to settle down into something that resembles sort of a more normal style of presidential communication. And I think that this — these tweets today certainly fit right into that. I mean, every fifth grader could tell you that climate change refers to unpredictable weather patterns. We’re coming out of a year when Houston and Puerto Rico were under water, California was on fire. You’ve got to assume that he is essentially just kind of poking a stick at his critics.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/12/29/wapos-tumulty-every-fifth-grader-could-tell-you-that-climate-change-refers-to-unpredictable-weather-patterns/

Well, my father was a meteorologist with the US Weather Bureau for most of his life and was unable at all times to accurately predict the weather.

It was not due to 'climate change'.  It was due to an inability to predict the weather.

[mountaineer]

climate change refers to unpredictable weather patterns

That's what they say now, having had their "global warming" predictions fail. Now it's just changing weather patterns, which is what weather/climate has always been and ever will be.

[edpc]

It’s not unpredictable to say hurricanes will form in the Atlantic every year and that California will have a dry season where underbrush is a fire hazard.

[mountaineer]

Generally speaking, for many of us in North American, winter is cold (like today) and summer is hot. Sometimes there are exceptions. For specifics on these broad generalizations, we call on our local TV weatherman.  ^-^

[musiclady]

We got a hint from Scripture....

John 3:8 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going......

You can try hard, but you can't predict the weather because it basically does "what it pleases."

We have weather now, just like we have always had.  The silliness of global warming (now climate change), and the refusal of the left to admit defeat in this area, are the only things that are entirely predictable.

[Applewood]

Sure, every fifth grader can recite the mantra of man-made climate change.  It's drummed into their heads by our commie public school system.

[musiclady]

Sure, every fifth grader can recite the mantra of man-made climate change.  It's drummed into their heads by our commie public school system.

The salient point.

The indoctrination begins very early, and never lets up.

[edpc]

We have weather now, just like we have always had.

Climate changes have also been the norm, as well.  North of me, in the Dakotas, fossils of dinosaurs and tropical life can be found.  It was also covered in glacial ice, at one point.

Here in Kansas, we have a formation left over from a time when the great plains were an inland sea.  These events have and will occur with or without us. 

[Forum member]

Sure, every fifth grader can recite the mantra of man-made climate change.  It's drummed into their heads by our commie public school system.

Mine can't... Home schooled.

[mountaineer]

 

Mine can't... Home schooled.

[WingNot]

Generally speaking, for many of us in North American, winter is cold (like today) and summer is hot. Sometimes there are exceptions. For specifics on these broad generalizations, we call on our local TV weatherman.  ^-^

In weather It always has been and always will be, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman with the Hippy Dippy weather man.

[Applewood]

Mine can't... Home schooled.

"Zactly!"  Public schools indoctrinate.  They don't teach. 

What's sad is that every fifth grader can repeat the climate change nonsense they learn in school, but many of them can't do simple math.  That climate change indoctrination might give them a career as an "activist," but they won't have the skills to get a real job in the real world.

[Sanguine]

The "thinking" is at a fifth grade level.

[dfwgator]

In weather It always has been and always will be, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman with the Hippy Dippy weather man.

"Here's a partial score: Notre Dame 6."

[edpc]

From when I actually was in 5th grade.....





The Ice Age that never was.

[WingNot]

"Let’s take a look at the radar.... Thunderstorms expected tonight. I also see it’s picking up a couple of Russian North Korean ICBMs heading this way, so I wouldn’t sweat those thunderstorms."

[Applewood]

From when I actually was in 5th grade.....





The Ice Age that never was.

The 2nd ice age scare goes back a lot farther than that.  I was born in the 1950s and I remember being told about it in elementary school.  I don't think I was indoctrinated in the hoax because I blew it off then as I do now.  The brainwashing didn't take effect.

[Applewood]

Tonight's forecast:  Dark. 

Continued dark tonight, then changing to partly light by morning.

RIP George Carlin.

[andy58-in-nh]

"We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. 'Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.' And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this sh*t. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths." 

 - George Carlin.

[WingNot]

RIP George Carlin.

"Have you ever noticed that you never get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed."

[Free Vulcan]

Last winter, after a long fall into December, and a very short cold spell, it started warming up in mid-January and mostly stayed warm the rest of the winter, including a whole week at nearly 70 degrees in Feburary.

All that of course was a indisputable sign of global warming. Now this winter it's an ice box, and that is also global warming.

Which means every winter we've had since the dawn of time was global warming.

[LadyLiberty]

The 2nd ice age scare goes back a lot farther than that.  I was born in the 1950s and I remember being told about it in elementary school.  I don't think I was indoctrinated in the hoax because I blew it off then as I do now.  The brainwashing didn't take effect.

My Dad was born in 32, and he remembers the Weekly Reader warning them that we would be out of oil by the 70's.  When I was in grade school, the Weekly Reader warned us about the upcoming ice and the death of the oceans.  Well before now, all of the plankton were supposed to die off, getting rid of the #1 source of oxygen.  We were all going to suffocate!

[WingNot]

  Well before now, all of the plankton were supposed to die off, getting rid of the #1 source of oxygen.  We were all going to suffocate!

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

[Restored]

Throughout my life, the litany has always been the same: We are all going to die and it is our fault because we won't give liberals more control over our lives.

[truth_seeker]

The Ice Age that never was.

From a best selling book, "The Population Bomb," Paul Erlich. 1968

Predicted a coming ice age, caused by overpopulation.

"Claims: In 1968, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb and declared that the battle to feed humanity had been lost and that there would be a major food shortage in the US. “In the 1970s … hundreds of millions are going to starve to death,” and by the 1980s most of the world’s important resources would be depleted. He forecast that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980-1989 and that by 1999, the US population would decline to 22.6 million. The problems in the US would be relatively minor compared to those in the rest of the world. (Ehrlich, Paul R. The Population Bomb. New York, Ballantine Books, 1968.) New Scientist magazine underscored his speech in an editorial titled “In Praise of Prophets.”

Claim: “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971.

Claim: Ehrlich wrote in 1968, “I have yet to meet anyone familiar with the situation who thinks India will be self-sufficient in food by 1971, if ever.”
Data: Yet in a only few years India was exporting food and significantly changed its food production capacity. Ehrlich must have noted this because in the 1971 version of his book this comment is deleted (Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource, Princeton: Princeton Univesity Press, 1981, p. 64)."