CNN Meteorologist Fact Checks Trump’s Global Warming Tweet: ‘Climate is Long-Term,’ Not a Day

Thanksgiving Day was brutally cold in some parts of America, something that did not escape the notice of President Donald Trump.

Trump’s Thanksgiving Day tweet was a follow-up from a tweet from one day before when the President declared, “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS – Whatever happened to Global Warming?”

Yet, as CNN meteorologist Chad Myers noted, one frigid day in a small part of the world is hardly reason to question global warming at all.

Asked for his thoughts on Trump’s tweeted out weather remarks, Myers made it clear the president isn’t seeing the big picture and focusing on weather in one part of the world for one day doesn’t really indicate much at all.

“Well, we take a look at the map behind me. This is the high-temperature change from where we should be for today. So this is what compared to a normal day on record — and climate isn’t a day, climate is long-term —  but this is what the cold air mass looks like in the northeast right now,” he explained. “The rest of the country is well above normal.”

He added after showing a map of temperatures around the world: “There’s one real spot of blue, and that just happens to be over New York City, over Washington, D.C., over Boston, over Ottawa. And that’s the big cold mass. Now, just because we have one cold area with the rest of the area [around the world] being red and well above normal, I don’t think that one little blob says anything at all.”

Watch above, via CNN