Simply because it’s cold out of doors at the moment doesn’t imply that global warming is hoax. That’s the message that Jon Stewart tried to get across all the way through the first Day-to-day Express of 2014 final night time, and one that MSNBC’s Alex Wagner persevered Tuesday afternoon when she addressed recent “climate trade denier” feedback made with the aid of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).

Wagner remarked that “there is one thing cold climate never fails to convey out,” prior to playing a montage of contemporary climate alternate denials that resulted in Inhofe’s statement from the Senate ground that the proof of worldwide warning is “nearly laughable.” As for his proof that it’s no longer going down? Al Gore as soon as held a local weather alternate rally on an extraordinarily cold day in New York Metropolis.

“Consistent with the logic of the prestigious gentleman from Oklahoma, if the planet is getting warmer, how can it possibly be cold out?” Wagner mentioned, before explaining that the science is a little more sophisticated than that. One factor that Inhofe neglected to mention is his Senate speech, but Wagner found related was the fact that in 2011 Oklahoma had the freshest summer ever recorded in U.S. historical past.

“Things are becoming worse,” Wagner mentioned of climate alternate. “What number of more sweltering summers should Oklahoma undergo via ahead of Senator Inhofe eventually feels the warmth?”

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