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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jan 29, 2019, 09:41 PM Jan 2019

NOAA responds to Trump's climate change skepticism with a cartoon



The day after President Trump posted a tweet suggesting that extreme cold temperatures in the Midwest cast doubt on the existence of global warming, the climate service for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tweeted a cartoon explaining that warming oceans result in more extreme winter weather.

"In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can't last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? [SIC] Please come back fast, we need you!" Mr. Trump tweeted.

Forecasters say millions of people in the Midwest and Great Lakes will see record-shattering wind chills from 40 to 65 degrees below zero this week due to a "polar vortex." And global warming may be playing a direct role in this: there is a theory that as areas near the North Pole warm more than two times faster than the rest of the globe, it weakens the polar vortex, displacing cold air masses southward into Europe, Asia and the United States.

Forecasters say millions of people in the Midwest and Great Lakes will see record-shattering wind chills from 40 to 65 degrees below zero this week due to a "polar vortex." And global warming may be playing a direct role in this: there is a theory that as areas near the North Pole warm more than two times faster than the rest of the globe, it weakens the polar vortex, displacing cold air masses southward into Europe, Asia and the United States.

In a statement to CBS News, NOAA said that the tweet was not made in response to Mr. Trump, but was "something NOAA routinely puts out when we get an extreme cold snap such as the one we're in now. "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/noaa-responds-to-trumps-climate-change-skepticism-with-a-cartoon/ar-BBSUMA4?li=BBnb7Kz

None-the-less Trump put his foot in his mouth after walking the cow pasture.
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NOAA responds to Trump's climate change skepticism with a cartoon (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Learn something every day (well, except IQ45) MyOwnPeace Jan 2019 #1
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MyOwnPeace

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Tue Jan 29, 2019, 09:53 PM
Jan 2019

"put his foot in his mouth after walking the cow pasture."

Good one, Mama - never heard it before - and SO fitting!

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