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Is Drudge Changing His Mind About Climate Change?

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Hmm, is Drudge warming up to the idea of climate change? After spending last month heralding the leaked Climategate emails and the subsequent uproar over the Copenhagen summit, Drudge has been devoting some significant space to extreme weather conditions taking place around the globe. So much so he’s devoted the entire upper left section to it!


Is this Drudge’s subtle (possibly inadvertent) way of telling his readers there might be something to this whole climate change thing? Extreme cold (which the Northeast is being paralyzed with at the moment) is as much a sign of climate change as extreme heat. Last fall Drudge was accused of affecting the value of the U.S. dollar after relentlessly posting headlines about its declining value. So who’s to say the same thing isn’t happening here. Of course, the theory slices both ways: plenty of climate skeptics think cold weather is further evidence that climate change is a ruse, so it’s entirely possible (entirely likely many regular readers will argue!) that Drudge is merely playing both sides against the middle.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Meusey/1242156511 Jim Meusey

    Matt Drudge is simply demonstrating the absurdity of those who claim the earth is continuing to warm. He always combines a story on his web site about the global warming crowd getting together with another example of the increasing cold period the world is entering.

    Those of us who have been around long enough to comb gray hair, easily remember the 1970s when the same types of people (if not the same people) were telling us we were headed for an Ice Age. It was very cold in the 1970s, just like it is now. Drudge is simply illustrating what many of us already know. The earth is always either warming and cooling — despite what special interest types like Al Gore would want you to believe.

  • ImNotBlue

    When exactly did “Global Warming” become “Climate Change?”

    I mean, I know WHY it became “Climate Change” (easier to define, easier to adapt to changing weather patterns or extreme weather, more vague, helps to whitewash science that goes against “Global Warming” by claiming “it’s just about warming, it’s all weather change,” as if the weather’s not supposed to change… etc.).

    But when was it decided by the Global Warming believers that they’d change the name, and continue to follow in lockstep?

  • smack

    “climate change” LOL! gotta be pretty arrogant to think the weather, ultimately controlled by nature & the sun is always going to suit human life. Of course the scientists on the dole are going to say that cold temperatures don’t undermine their science. crisis is a necessity!

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    “Climate change” was such a blatant feint by the chicken-little crowd when Gore’s contention that we are in the warmest period ever, and the planet “has a fever” were easily dismissed by 11 years of dropping temperatures.

    Climate-change is such a hollow term for this reason: who knows what the global average should be? The climate is a forever shifting entity, it is not stasis, therefore the “new” term allows them to still stand on a chair and say, “See! We said it would change!” Yesterday the sun rose, and then it set. We are going through a period of “Illumination Change”.

  • Snipzor

    [FOR ALL CLAIMS ABOVE: CITATIONS NEEDED]

    Soo many citations.

  • CaptainAmerica

    There goes Glynnis again…showing her stupidity! Drudge mocking the Global Warming idiots with these headlines on a daily basis shows the absurdity of all the CHICKEN LITTLES like Glynnis…. and yet it still goes over her head!

  • puck30

    Glynnis
    If you looked at the Drudge Report on a daily basis, you would know that Matt has posted these stories on a daily basis about the cold weather since the Summer when there were areas around the country that having record lows.

    There’s a ton of postings right now because, it’s been cold everywhere!

  • felixw

    I understand that a leading UK climate research think tank has proven that 2010 is the warmest year ever. Of course, the dog ate the raw data.

    Meanwhile, silly Matt Drudge is paying attention to the actual weather reports, which claim the coldest winter in decades. But in this matter, you can’t judge by actual temperatures. The size of tree rings on a handful of Siberian juniper trees, pre-screened for data fit, is a much better source of scientific information.

  • ChrisNH

    Libs, even though they changed their thrust from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to better fit their narrative, still are hell-bent on the whole ‘warming’ idea. Drudge is simply smacking these Libs upside the head with news about ‘cold’ when Libs continue to say it ought not be.

  • twolflauf

    So now the earth is getting colder? is that the story this week? I could have sworn it was called global warming.

  • Moderate

    It looks like Glynnis is a right wing loon pretending to be a left wing loon just to make them look like idiots.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Rhodes/500455369 Steve Rhodes

    Drudge has been fascinated by weather since the site began.

    Unfortunately he doesn’t seem very fascinated about real science.

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