Both shows used essentially the same straw-man tactics, saying deniers are using the upper eastern sea board snow storm alone to attack global warming. No, actually Jon & Steve, they’re using the fact that there has been an abnormally large snowfall in most of the U.S, England, Continental, Europe even much of Asia this winter.

They’re also questioning global warming because it’s most vocal proponents are some of the very same scientists who in the 70’s cried global cooling. Though the apocalyptic prognostications were so different as to be on either end of the thermometer, what did remain consistent was the supposed cause (the use of fossil fuels) and the supposed solutions (The imposition of radical Malthusian policies, over hauling the entire Western industrial infrastructure, increased State control, and the disintegration of National sovereignty.)

You would accuse “deniers” of being politically driven, and yet for the originators of the global warming (formerly cooling) thesis, it should be clear to all but an utter fool that the politics precede the data. And don’t try the “deniers are in the pocket of big oil” argument, since much of the world’s oil elite are very much behind the global warming agenda. Queen Beatrix, the Rockefellers, etc. You’re so ready to stick it to Republican scumbags like Bush, Comedy Central, but you lack either the guts or the brains to go after your heroes in the so-called ‘liberal’ left.