RNC Clown Michael Steele Weighs in on Global Warming

 

Michael Steele is the gift that keeps on giving. Voted chairman of the Republican National Committee in what smells suspiciously like a “Hey, look, we’re not all fat white guys” stunt, Steele hasn’t exactly provided the hip, diverse edge that the RNC was apparently going for. Now, after several embarrassing missteps – including dorky, awkward misuse of urban slang and a tail-between-his-legs apology to Rush Limbaugh – Steele is inserting his foot even deeper down his throat with statements about global warming.

Steele said the following on a radio broadcast originally picked up by The Huffington Post’s Sam Steele, via DeSmogBlog:

“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No [sic] very long.”

At least this time, Steele’s statements don’t put him at odds with the party he represents. Dumb as they are, they do fit in with the general Republican view that global warming – if it’s happening at all – isn’t caused by man.

As usual, DeSmogBlog has a concise explanation for why Steele is wrong:

While Steele is correct in implying that a cooling period helped make Greenland what it is today, he doesn’t seem to realize that that period, dubbed “The Little Ice Age” by historians and climate scientists, ended a long time ago – over 150 years ago, to be exact. During this era, which lasted several centuries, Norse settlements on the island were wiped out due to a combination of malnourishment, armed conflict and declining temperatures.

Similar century to millennia-long periods of intense cooling and warming, triggered by abrupt climate shifts, have occurred throughout history. Therefore, while it is certainly not implausible that the planet may eventually lapse into another mini ice age, most projected trends point to several decades of warming, made worse by anthropogenic influences. Of course, if Steele understood this, then he’d already know why scientists are so concerned about the dramatic rate of melting of Greenland’s ice sheet – melting prompted by higher air and water temperatures, I might add.

Boy, Michael Steele is so “off da hook”. He’s fighting that Obama stimulus bling-bling and giving the GOP a “hip-hop makeover”. Even Michele Bachman says “Michael Steele, You be da man!”. Between Steele, Bachman, Rush Limbaugh and Bobby “Kenneth the Page” Jindal, the Republican Party is definitely gearing up to drop it like it’s hot on our liberal asses. Friggin’ awesome. Word.

Link [DeSmogBlog] + [The Huffington Post]

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