Record -breaking snowfall in some corridors of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have led global warming skeptics to have a field day in the past week.
On Tuesday, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky quipped, "Where's Al Gore when we need him?" and reportedly burst out laughing when he was asked about the odds of cap-and-trade legislation getting through the Senate this year. South Carolina GOP Senator Jim DeMint tweeted that “It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries 'uncle,'” and yesterday Rush Limbaugh called it another nail in the coffin for "the whole global warming thing."
But Lonnie Thompson, an acclaimed professor at Ohio State University who served as an adviser for the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, says nobody should be making such rash judgments based on one particular weather cycle.
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2010.
