Do you really want to put this guy back in charge of the senate?

[dude1394]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/...007-10-24.html

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.

[mcsluggo]

I don't understand. Why is that interchange worth note, at all?

Either you DO belive that there is a global warming phenom happening, and that it is affecting local climates or you don't. But the fact that someone DOES, certainly isn't particularly newsworthy, since at least half of the world shares his views.

ANd if you DO believe in global warming, then thinking that local weather conditions are affected (ie possibly less rainfall, or possibly greater "Santa Anna" winds) certainly isn't stretch...no?

THe silly editorialization of "backpeddling", because Reid does NOT believe that SoCal is bursting into flames because the world is getting hotter... is just that, silly editorializing.

[dude1394]

This guy says it better than I
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/...e-7b923d3e728b

First, Reid is an idiot because tried to use global warming as a prop in a current news story in order to advance his energy bill agenda. When called on it, he denied he said it. It's on tape. You can listen to it here.

Second, he has no idea what he's talking about. Southern California is a desert. The Santa Ana winds are as normal this time of year as any other local weather phenomenon. In fact, some of the weathermen in the area had speculated on television newscasts in recent weeks that we usually get Santa Anas before now. And in the scope of the severity of the winds, this batch isn't even as bad as we've had. This is a very average wind pattern for us.

Reid may have wanted to blame the fires on global warming before he got called on it and ran away, but I'd be hard pressed to be persuaded that global warming caused arsonists to start several of these fires, or that global warming knocked down a power line in Malibu starting that fire, or that global warming caused a couple of construction workers to work with an arc welder in high winds, showering the local brush with sparks.

So now that Reid has publicly raised the global warming specter...that is, before he lowered it again in classic John Kerry fashion, it makes you wonder what's worse for Harry Reid's environment? Letting the fires burn, or polluting the ozone with all the hydrocarbons that come out of the exhaust of the DC-10's and helicopters that are frantically dropping water and fire retardant on the hot spots? Should Reid be calling for the removal of the firefighting from the air in order to minimize the footprint the fires are already putting in the air and remain consistent with his radical environmentalism?

Reid is a witless opportunist. Half a million people are evacuated, at least 1,200 homes have been lost so far, federal, state, county and local resources are performing acts of heroism all over California to save lives and property, and Harry Reid wants to blame it on global warming to score political points for his energy bill? What a creep.

[Epitome22]

Wow, it's saying something when you have to defer to a hack like Hugh Hewitt as your better.

And yes I want this guy running the Senate, especially when the alternative is Trent Lott.

[dude1394]

Well I wouldn't expect you to actually read it. But that wasn't Hugh Hewitt but Duane R. Patterson.

I guess you agree with Harry that Global Warming is causing the california fires. Wonder if it caused all of the other ca. fires before global warming?

[dude1394]

Since epitome22 didn't like what he was hearing from Duane Patterson, this guy adds some data. Here is the annual rainfall of San Diego... <12 inches.

If anything maybe global warming would cause LESS fires in San Diego becuase there might be more rain.

http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10...d-politicians/

As Duane Patterson points out, San Diego is - and always has been - a desert. Remember, people move there because it is always so nice and sunny. If it's always nice and sunny it isn't raining. And it does not rain to speak of in San Diego. The average annual precipitation is less than 12 inches - and there is virtually none - ever - in the summer. San Diego has also seen explosive growth with more and more houses built in areas where the fires used to rage and just burn brush. The Santa Ana winds blow every single year and there are always fires.

I'm not sure Al Gore is this dumb.

[dude1394]

More funny..

Yep,

The temperature on Earth went up 3/4 of a degree celsius in the last 100 years and now the trees are bursting into flames.

[Usually Lurkin]

never mind.