By Reilly Capps
Fact of the day: environmentalists suck at arguing. Given solid scientific, photographic, and anecdotal evidence of warming, they’re still losing the debate because one guy used the word “trick” while talking about something called a “hockey stick,” and then because of a couple cold days in February.
This has caused a bunch of enviros to say that what we green weenies need to do is to try and straighten out the public on the difference between weather and climate, and then they’ll see it our way. Don’t talk about individual weather events, they said. Talk about broad sweeps.
That, of course, is the intellectually honest thing to do, and enviros usually do just that. And they usually lose. And they’ll lose this next round, too. Because do you think skeptics are going to stop pointing out when it’s cold out? No. They are not. Fox News is going to send reporters to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the coldest place in America, and have a permanent bureau there whose entire job is to say: Where’s this global warming I’ve heard so much about? It’s 32 degrees here! It’s literally freezing!
And that will be the end of all that.