John Cook tries to attack skeptics for their savage jokes about cold spells. Go for it John, we'll believe you when you when you also tell PhD's they shouldn't harp on about random noise like heat waves:
Forecast: flurries of shivering climate-change deniersWhen a cold spell struck the east coast recently, US President Donald Trump tweeted "Wouldn't be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!"
The argument he is sarcastically implying and often makes—that global warming isn't happening because it's cold outside—possesses an obvious logical flaw. [No kidding]. It's like arguing that the sun no longer exists when it gets dark at night. Of course, Trump didn't invent this argument—it's commonly brought up on denier blogs and social media threads whenever the weather turns cold.
This type of fallacious reasoning is not just common on believer blogs, it's their bread and butter.
Trump was being sarcastic. Skeptics are making jokes — but what excuse can anyone make for paid PhD's who are serious?
Let's swap the hot's and cold's of Cooks own words (mine bolded):
The argument PhD's seriously imply and often make—that global warming is happening because [...]
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