Comments on: Unheard of – Jan 10, 2009 http://nealo.com/2010/01/10/unheard-of-jan-10-2009/ a collection of editorial cartoons by neal obermeyer Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:19:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Alex http://nealo.com/2010/01/10/unheard-of-jan-10-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-170645 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:19:39 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2841#comment-170645 Global warming and global climate change are, at this historical moment, the same thing. There’s no worldwide scientific conspiracy to dodge the evidence with not very clever semantics.

Basic science education in this country needs to be vastly improved, particularly so people understand the difference between WEATHER and CLIMATE (and between their REGIONAL climate and GLOBAL climate change). For example, even though we experienced one awfully cold month, 2009 will still be the second hottest year on record because of temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/113/2

]]> By: neal http://nealo.com/2010/01/10/unheard-of-jan-10-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-166044 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:01:21 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2841#comment-166044 In reply to nathan.

Good point, and you have to acknowledge the clever semantic game at work. “Snow in December” doesn’t have the same logically devastating effect on “global climate change” as it does on “global warming.”

]]> By: nathan http://nealo.com/2010/01/10/unheard-of-jan-10-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-165987 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:02:51 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2841#comment-165987 What is this “global warming” about? That is so 1990’s Neal. These days it’s “global climate change” that way we can incorporate ANY weather pattern into the lie!

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