Conservative Talking Heads: Where is Al Gore?

Conservative talking heads, and Republican politicians such as Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C), radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, and Fox personality's Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck took aim yesterday at Global Warming in the wake of the nor'easter that hit the East Coast Tuesday night into Wednesday. Senator Jim DeMint took to social networking site Twitter yesterday, stating that "It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries 'uncle,'". That was just the beginning for the critics of the climate bill making its way around Congress. Rush Limbaugh yesterday declared that the snowstorm that struck cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C and Baltimore (all three cities set snow records in their respected cities), the "nail in the coffin" regarding to climate change.

He continued his program by asking "Where is Al Gore?", as if Al Gore had invented climate change. The attacks were relentless, as Fox Opinion Channel's guest "Your World" guest host, Eric Bolling repeatedly shown Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, buried in the snow while making sarcastic remarks, such as "Poor Al Gore". Not realizing climate change is a change in the global climate (not just in cities known for having cold winters), Limbaugh, Beck, and other conservative personalities on radio and television continue to sound ignorant and ignore facts of global warming. One fact pointing to climate change in the United States is Seattle's record for the warmest January (average of 47 degrees), going back to 1891.

Of course you will never hear a word about this on Fox Opinion Channels "Hannity", "Glenn Beck" or any other show on the channel. Instead, right wing pundit Sean Hannity continues to scare viewers with false information, including his claim that "global temperatures continue to plummet year after year." Several scientific organizations have concluded that the of 2009 was the warmest year on record and that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record. So while snow will continue to fall in the winter time (yes...it snows in the winter), proving global warming is a conspiracy over a snowstorm instead of facts seems a little immature. Of course, for the 'Party of No', rhetoric, instead of solutions, seems to satisfy