Think Progress Makes "A Terrible Mistake" (Powerlineblog.com)

(John)

How low can liberals sink? This low: Think Progress blames the tornadoes that
killed close to 300 across the South on those states' Congressional
delegations: "Catastrophic Climate: Storms Kill 292 In States Represented By
Climate Pollution Deniers."

> The Congressional delegations of these states overwhelmingly voted (HR 910
and McConnell Amendment 183) to reject the science that polluting the climate
is dangerous:

That is typical Think Progress: the votes were not, of course, on whether
"polluting the climate"--whatever that means--"is dangerous." The votes were
to overturn the EPA's carbon dioxide endangerment finding.

> "Given that global warming is unequivocal," climate scientist Kevin
Trenberth cautioned the American Meteorological Society in January of this
year, "the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by
global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of 'of course
we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.'"

The implication is that this week's tornadoes were caused by anthropogenic
global warming. As regular readers know, my view is that the scientific
evidence overwhelmingly refutes the politically-motivated claim that the
earth's climate is warming significantly, and the primary cause is human
activity. But put the broader issue aside for the ...

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