Donald Trump used the snow to mock global warming and this brutal takedown will warm your chilly bones
Donald Trump doesn’t believe in climate change – or, more accurately perhaps, Donald Trump doesn’t understand climate change – and chooses to mock anyone who does with tweets like this.
Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2019
Not the first time he’s done this sort of thing and fortunately there are plenty of people out there happy to put him right.
Climate Change is what causes the extremes in whether we are currently experiencing. Abnormal winter cold and precipitation may be a direct effect of Climate change. Your Ignorance is amazing!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) 20 January 2019
Oh wow. Your lack of understanding of anything is quite something.
I’ve encountered toe nails with a better grasp of basic science.
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) 20 January 2019
There are NO words for the foolishness you spew. Big snow storms are EXACTLY what global warming is about. Global warming does NOT mean "it's warmer everywhere". It means there are EXTREME temperatures everywhere bc ice melts, oceans rise and that causes a chain reaction.
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) 20 January 2019
Maybe a wall can stop the snow
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) 20 January 2019
But the best response came from this chap, a surgeon called Eugene Gu, our new favourite hero.
1.
Trump calls the media fake news but he dangerously spreads his own conspiracy theories and denies the overwhelming scientific evidence for climate change. Just because it is cold outside does not mean climate change is not real. Weather is not the same as climate.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
2.
Carbon dioxide levels have risen to such unprecedented levels because of our addiction to fossil fuels. Trump wants a wall at the southern border but sea levels are rising so fast that pretty soon our major coastal cities may need a wall to keep out the ocean. pic.twitter.com/BCZSU80D8z
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
3.
Weather is not the same as climate because weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere while climate is averaging the weather over a long period of time like around 30 years. Our climate is definitely changing and we have way more extreme weather events too.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
4.
In fact, a changing climate means we have more extreme and frequent hurricanes, forest fires in rainforests, and tornadoes right next to Seattle. Hurricanes are doing more damage with rising sea levels too. In 1914 there was one tropical storm. In 2005 there were 28 hurricanes. pic.twitter.com/WZYE4qwxlT
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
5.
Olympic National Park is supposed to be the wettest place in all of the continental US. It’s a rainforest getting over 150 inches of rain every year. But in 2015 the Paradise Fire burned for more than 170 days, scorching over 1600 acres of rainforest. Another fire in 2018.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
6.
Trump blames the horrific California wildfires on poor forest management and even threatened to withhold FEMA relief funds. Well because of climate change the bark beetle is chewing through forests in California, most of which is managed by the federal government. pic.twitter.com/E2rGGJP40M
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
7.
We only have 12 years to radically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels before we reach a climate catastrophe and make literally hell on Earth with extreme drought, fires, floods, and heat. If we raise global temperatures by more than 2.7 F our very existence is threatened.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
8.
Climate change is real, the president is spreading fake news, and our planet is being destroyed like never before in the history of human civilization. We’re lobsters in the boiling pot, the stove is on, the water just got uncomfortably warm, and Trump wants to turn up the heat.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) 20 January 2019
Let’s hope the president reads it and takes note. Only kidding.
