The Progressive Caucus and the White House must be elated to see the management of the Empire State Building honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Communist Revolution in China by lighting the top of the empire state building in the colors of Chinese flag. Liberals never miss a chance to pay homage to brutal totalitarian regimes and it’s hard to find an example more totalitarian or more brutal than the Chinese.  They must be so proud.

Like all great Communists, Mao was a champion of bold moves for social justice, fairness and social change — change that the Chinese people could believe in.  The first such move for social justice was called The Great Leap Forward which was meant to industrialize China  It was responsible for killing an estimated 34 million people through slow starvation between 1958 and 1962, while the government storehouses stood full of food.  Of course, that’s minor compared to the estimated 72 million people that were killed in Mao’s illustrious climb to power.  The people of China have be crushed under the thumb of social justice ever since. 

Who can forget the scene at Tienamnen Square in 1989 when thousands gathered to protest  the death of a pro-democracy, anti-corruption leader named Hu Yaobang.   They wanted change of their own and an end to authoritarianism, corruption and the brutality of Communism.  Hundreds were killed when the tanks arrived to clear the streets and many hundreds more were arrested, never to be seen again.  This must be making Jimmy Carter’s heart swell with pride.

Let’s examine a few examples.  Here’s a quote from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 2001:

NOAA scientists announced today that the U.S. national temperature during the November through December two-month period was the coldest such period on record.

“Whoa, that doesn’t sound like global warming,” you might say.  Not so though, because you see that’s an example of weather not of climate.   You might also wonder about the fact that in November 2006 Eastern Australia experienced the coldest temperatures in over 100 years.   Well you’d be wrong again, because that’s not evidence of climate change.  That’s weather.   What about the record cold in Southern California this year, or the fact that the southern hemisphere was unusually cold with the first snowfall in Buenas Aires since 1918, or the record cold temperatures in Minnesota, Pennslyvania and Ohio and Seol Korea?  Weather, weather, weather not climate.  So what is an example of climate?

This year in nothern Europe, they recorded the warmest weather on record.  That is an example of climate.  “But hold on a minute,” you say, “that sounds just like the examples above.”  Not a bit of it.  This is clearly evidence of climate change, not an anomalous weather pattern.  Here let me give you another example, to clear up any confusion that might remain and to prevent you from  falling into the same intellectual trap that even some learned scientists have unwittingly fallen into.  I admit that it might be hard to understand at first, but it will all will be cleared up shortly — I promise.

A study done in 2002 showed that the Antarctic had been cooling for some time.  The study was initiated because of the unusually cold summers that had been occuring there., clearly what they were seeing was weather.   Soon after, it was discovered  that the Western Antartic ice sheets were becoming thinner, while the Eastern Antartic  Ice sheets were becoming thicker.   A later study showed that the areas around McMurdo and the Antarctic peninsula are warming.  A recent article of The Journal of Climate, by William Chapman and John Walsh found that other than the area around McMurdo and the Antartic Penninsula, there is a lack  of evidence to show any “spatially widespread warming.”  So if that is the case, then what’s really going on?  It’s really quite simple once you understand the current scientific use of weather and climate. The scientists that looked at the Western Antarctic ice sheets were seeing climate change, while the ones studying the Eastern Antarctic ice sheets were seeing weather.  Likewise, those that were studying temperatures on the Antarctic peninsula were studying climate, while Chapman and Walsh were identifying weather patterns.

So to summarize we can say that whenever temperatures fall, even for long periods of time or over wide areas, even to record lows, that  is evidence of weather, not climate.  Whenever temperatures rise, no matter how locally, or for how brief a time, that is climate.  So as even a layman can understand, global warming is without a doubt a fact.  The debate is indeed over, and you my noxious-fume belching friends are the cause.  Shame on all of  you.