116 Comments

Isn't 100% humidity another way of saying 'pouring rain'?

Expand full comment

No actually. It just means the air can't hold anymore water vapor. It means when you sweat, it won't evaporate. The air temp has to drop in order for the air to release the vapor as rain. The quicker and farther it drops, the harder it rains.

Expand full comment

Let's see...anti-vaxers are willing to bet their kids' (and other people's) health on pseudoscience. When it comes to ideology, people don't behave rationally.

Expand full comment

Isn't it obvious? 97% of climate scientists are willing to risk their reputations to fraudulently present data to sustain their narcissistic need to feed on adulation and fame.

Expand full comment

I probably knew that. Once.

Expand full comment

Disclosure: I had to look it up.

Expand full comment

Nuh uh! The NASA/NOAA models are shown lacking by longitudinal studies. A list of temperature readings from the roof of the Bulgarian Barber College on Breitbart - it's academic AND published. Dumb lie-bruls!

Expand full comment

Brainfart is a science source? Who knew?

Expand full comment

Hitler's daddy ate grits.

Expand full comment

The thing with Congress is that if youve got a Gerrymandered district, your competitors are all as nutty as you are so the Kochs get you at a discount. It costs more to buy someone from a competitive district.

Expand full comment

Over the last 20 years, I'd say brain farts have overtaken cattle flatus as a cause of global warming.

Expand full comment

I think they were drawn by politicians fixated on income in the current term without regard for future earnings. In Republican circles, only the Kochs play the long game.

Expand full comment

Try w2.vatican.va and click Laudato Si

Expand full comment

Found it. Thanks!

Expand full comment

If I correctly understand this, the challenge is a bogus one. They are predicting that the 30 year average will go up. But Heartland's claim is no warming since 1998--a period of only seventeen years. If temperature was rising until then and constant from 1998 on, the thirty year average would continue to go up until 2028, since the early end of the averaging period includes a time when temperature was rising.

Either I misunderstand this, the committee is deliberately making a fraudulent challenge, or the people designing the challenge are mathematically incompetent.

Expand full comment

A climate bet based on one year? What part of "weather isn't climate" don't these clowns get?

Oops, I momentarily fell into climatista name-calling mode, sorry. Please imagine me making that same point in a non-hostile fashion.

Expand full comment