OBAMA VS. SCIENCE
The headline reads, "Obama flunks Global Warming 101 on Fargo."
Writing in the Canada Free Press, Tim Ball, an adviser to the International Climate Science Coalition and previously climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, says President Obama carelessly used the recent flooding in Fargo, N.D., to push a "misguided belief in global warming."
Mr. Obama commented: "If you look at the flooding that's going on right now in North Dakota, and you say to yourself, 'If you see an increase of two degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there?"
The president's remark, Mr. Ball said, was "speculative and completely wrong."
"A two-degree-warmer North Dakota would mean less snowfall; therefore, less flooding," the scientist says. "Spring flooding along the Red River of the north is due to snowmelt and the geography of the region. This year, the cold winter caused heavy snow in the south basin and all across the northern continental U.S." |
