Stupid People Need the Most Attention

You're starting to hear the argument that the large snowfall in the mid-atlantic states means that there is no global warming. What I find astounding is that those who should be our more responsible citizens are using...well, I can't even call it pseudoscience...lay observation to feed a partisan political argument. What I'll never understand is how the argument about global warming ever became a political argument in the first place. It's ass-backward that conclusions in political circles have been drawn before a substantial scientific theory has been completed. It is frankly irrelevant whether one "believes" in global warming, or aspects of varying theories on global warming and its causes, or other competing theories. There is simply no relevant discourse on this topic beyond the scientific. With a significant consensus on most key aspects of global warming, I would say that discourse has been, in part, concluded. All that remains is what to do about it, but somehow that fact is being ignored in favor of stirring up partisan emotion on a very non-partisan topic.

As for the snowfall in mid-atlantic states: anyone who has read the scientific discourse on the topic of global warming over the past decade will know that, again, general consensus is that global warming will cause an increase in severe weather events (at least in the short term), including snowstorms. Partisan politicians conveniently ignore these facts because, hell, it's far more fun, interesting and ultimately profitable to get people worked up over they-have-no-idea what.