GLENN: Now we have Howard Dean wanting you to know that you just, if you don't believe in global warming, you just don't believe in science.
VOICE: One of the most disturbing things about the Republican Party over the last couple of decades is they don't believe in science anymore, it's not likely, not an approach that's likely to generate any kind of creative thinking or any serious thinking about the future.
GLENN: Right.
VOICE: People who use snowstorms as an example of why global warming doesn't exist don't understand the science and they don't care.
GLENN: I can't tell you how glad I am to have that science monkey off my back. You know what I mean? Oh, my goodness, I am so
PAT: Keeping us down, hasn't it?
GLENN: Oh, my goodness. I've been watching the evil magic box, you know, that shows pictures of evil ghost people in my bedroom. You know what I mean? And they have been filling me with all sorts of nonsense.
PAT: Really?
GLENN: Yeah. And I'm like, oh, thank goodness the magic box is here now to set things straight. Man. It's like I was listening to this guy and he was like, he asked some politician: Do you believe that the Earth goes around the sun? And I'm in my car: Of course not. The sun is an illusion! Oh, man.
PAT: Man.
GLENN: All right. So thanks, Howard Dean. By the way, you know, anybody who's talking about snowstorms, you know, they don't care about the science, let me just, let me give you some highlights.
VOICE: We need a climate change strategy.
PAT: Senator Robert Byrd.
SENATOR BYRD: Think of the kind of winter we've had. Think of the kind of winter we've had here in Washington.
GLENN: 10,000 year old.
SENATOR BYRD: One snow.
GLENN: Three inches.
SENATOR BYRD: Three inches?
PAT: Global warming, huh.
SENATOR BYRD: Look at the drought and the winters, the difference, differences in the summers.
PAT: Global warming.
VOICE: Also remarked the most optimistic
GLENN: Hang on just a second. You notice that if you say a snowstorm, it doesn't disprove global warming.
PAT: Yes.
GLENN: But if you say no snowstorm, it proves global warming.
PAT: Yes.
GLENN: Nothing really ever disproves their theory.
PAT: Yes. Now you have it. Now you have it.
BOXER: Climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30 to 70% of the snow pack
PAT: Barbara Boxer.
GLENN: Snow pack. Snow, snow.
PAT: Disappear, gone, no snow.
BOXER: Of the snow pack will disappear. No wonder we have people visiting our offices
PAT: Get this.
BOXER: who are just already hurting
GLENN: They are hurting.
BOXER: from the recreation industry in this nation.
PAT: Big recreation is upset.
GLENN: Oh, my goodness.
PAT: Yes, big recreation is upset. No skiing.
GLENN: Oh, my goodness.
PAT: No skiing, no snow.
GLENN: May I go to Bill Nye, the science guy, please?
PAT: Yes, you may.
GLENN: Here's Bill Nye, the science guy. There's no better statement. Remember, I believe it was Susan Sarandon's husband, Mr. Sarandon, that said, there's a chill wind blowing.
VOICE: A chill wind is blowing in this nation.
GLENN: He was saying there was a chill wind because if you disagreed with going in to kill Saddam Hussein, a chill wind was blowing. "We are called unpatriotic. We are called un American." Here's Bill Nye the science guy.
VOICE: Seasonally appropriate storms and to have the kind of climate forecast and change that's been discussed by most of the reputable scientists in the world.
Bill Nye: You're unpatriotic? |
NYE: I know what you're driving at. Necessity, this would be consistent with such a thing, as is no snow near the City of Vancouver on Mt. Cypress there, as is the big mudslides we had here in Southern California day before yesterday and last night.
GLENN: Stop, stop, stop, stop.
PAT: So all of this stuff is consistent with global warming, the lack of snow and the plenty of snow and the mudslides and the lack of mudslides!
GLENN: Oh, my goodness.
PAT: Sandstorms? Global warming! Wind? Global warming!
GLENN: No wind?
PAT: Global warming!
GLENN: No sandstorms?
PAT: Global warming!
GLENN: It's unbelievable. I love this.
PAT: Unbelievable.
GLENN: "You know, I think what a real sign of global warming is, mudslides." There have been mudslides my whole life! I believe we could probably dig up underneath the mud some probably dinosaurs with a big booboo on their head from the mudslide that killed them! I think mudslides in California really? Mudslides are new because of global global warming. All right. Go ahead, Bill.
NYE: There's more energy in the atmosphere and this is stirring things up.
GLENN: Oh, boy.
NYE: If you want to get serious about it.
GLENN: Serious.
NYE: These guys claiming that the snow in Washington disproves climate change
GLENN: Nobody's saying that. Stop, stop!
NYE: Are almost unpatriotic.
GLENN: Oh, boy! Hit the Mr. Sarandon bite again, will you?
VOICE: A chill wind is blowing in this nation.
GLENN: It's un American, unpatriotic, unpatriotic to claim. First of all, who has claimed that this snowstorm is proof that global warming doesn't exist? How many times have I said both for hurricanes and no hurricane, this doesn't one storm, one storm does not prove anything. It is a trend. But let's look at the trends, shall we, Mr. Science Guy? I like you know I can put a lot of stock and credibility into anybody who is, the end of their job title is "Guy." Mr. Radio Guy, Mr. Science Guy. Yes, Mr. President, we have a real problem. Can we get the Science Guy on the phone?
Let's look at the trends. Stu, you follow this much more. When did the trend of really getting hot end?
STU: You mean as far as just the
GLENN: The trends of, you know
STU: Well, 1998 was the warmest year on record.
GLENN: Wait. I'm sorry, what?
STU: 1998.
GLENN: Let me do the math here. I should get Mr. Math guy on. But it seems like 12 years ago.
GLENN: 12 years ago.
STU: It's probably a mistake but it does seem that way.
GLENN: Mr. Math guy should probably get together with Mr. Science guy.
PAT: Twelve years of cooler temperatures don't mean anything.
GLENN: That's Mr. Idiot Guy.
PAT: That's only a dozen years. That doesn't mean anything. Don't confuse twelve years with a pattern. We're looking at trends here.
GLENN: I'm having a hard time figuring out the difference between Mr. Idiot Guy and Mr. Science Guy.