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Left-leaning Center for American Progress blames Republicans for devastating tornadoes
The Daily Caller ^ | 29 Apr 2011 | Amanda Carey

Posted on 04/29/2011 12:11:02 PM PDT by mandaladon

The left-leaning Center for American Progress published a blog post Thursday blaming Republicans for the tornadoes that devastated the South earlier this week.

“The congressional delegations of these states – Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky – overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous,” wrote CAP’s Brad Johnson. “They are deliberately ignoring the warning from scientists.”

Johnson’s justification is that climate scientist Kevin Trenberth warned the American Meteorological Society in January that “Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warning rather than the inane statements along the lines of ‘of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.’”

At the last count, the tornadoes has claimed 297 lives – the greatest number of deaths by tornadoes since April of 1974 when 315 people were killed throughout the South and Midwest. President Obama traveled to Alabama – the hardest-hit state – Friday morning to survey the damage, after signing an Alabama Disaster Declaration.

Johnson has not yet returned The Daily Caller’s request for comment.

UPDATE: Despite attempts to link the tornadoes to climate change, many experts dismiss the theory. Grady Dixon, assistant professor of meteorology and climatology at Mississippi State University said, “If you look at the past 60 years of data, the number of tornadoes is increasing significantly, but it’s agreed upon by the tornado community that it’s not a real increase.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2crazy4words; lunatics; tornadoes; weather
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Well I knew this was coming from the kooks on the left.
1 posted on 04/29/2011 12:11:12 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Do they blame the GOP for the cold spring here in the upper midwest?


2 posted on 04/29/2011 12:13:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: mandaladon

Keep it up, warmist leftards.

You look more and more stupid everytime you open your mealy mouths.


3 posted on 04/29/2011 12:13:37 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: mandaladon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2712455/posts?page=31#31


4 posted on 04/29/2011 12:14:02 PM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
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To: mandaladon
So before the Republican Party was formed there where no tornadoes? I never knew that.
5 posted on 04/29/2011 12:14:45 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: mandaladon

Bwaaahhh Haaa Haaa Haaaahhhh!

6 posted on 04/29/2011 12:16:27 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: mandaladon

Don’t you know that Republicans were responsible for the floods when Noah built the Arc?


7 posted on 04/29/2011 12:17:23 PM PDT by RC2
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To: mandaladon

It must be Al Gore opening his mouth again.


8 posted on 04/29/2011 12:17:55 PM PDT by NY Attitude (Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
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To: mandaladon

9 posted on 04/29/2011 12:19:47 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: mandaladon

Obama’s fault.

Had he not been golfing, he could have taken those elephant ears and “flapped” the tornadoes away.


10 posted on 04/29/2011 12:21:18 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: mandaladon

If there is a cause, it probably has something to do with Obama dividing Jerusalem.


11 posted on 04/29/2011 12:21:53 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Sorry for typos: typed with IPhone/IPad)
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“Left-leaning Center for American Progress blames Republicans for devastating tornadoes”

This is the entire rationale for perpetuating the global warming hoax-blaming your enemies for every natural event that has a negative impact. It’s a brilliant scheme that preys on the incurably ignorant, like Marxism.


12 posted on 04/29/2011 12:26:55 PM PDT by Spok
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To: mandaladon

Their solution is the subjugation and death of hundreds of millions of people. These are not nice, gentle people who just want the little lizards to be happy.


13 posted on 04/29/2011 12:30:10 PM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk

Subjugation hell, listen close and you’ll hear their dream of eliminating a billion people or so.


14 posted on 04/29/2011 12:33:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: mandaladon

“Given that global warming is unequivocal” My, what a pontifical twit.


15 posted on 04/29/2011 12:39:04 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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“Given that global warming is sky demons are unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warning sky demons rather than the inane statements along the lines of ‘of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming sky demons.’”
16 posted on 04/29/2011 12:41:28 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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“If you look at the past 60 years of data, the number of tornadoes is increasing significantly, but it’s agreed upon by the tornado community that it’s not a real increase.”

Rough neighborhood - a little transatory.

17 posted on 04/29/2011 12:47:18 PM PDT by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: mandaladon

“left leaning”? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Left of Commie? Surely, they don’t mean left of center.


18 posted on 04/29/2011 12:50:04 PM PDT by hattend (How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one? - Steyn)
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To: Hugin

The weather boogeyman is a very old trick of politicians:

Several kinds of data show more than a coincidental relationship between witch trials, weather and economic growth. In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. “Witches” became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

http://www.medievalists.net/2008/12/04/witchcraft-weather-and-economic-growth-in-renaissance-europe/


19 posted on 04/29/2011 12:55:05 PM PDT by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: lurk
These are not nice, gentle people who just want the little lizards to be happy.

You are correct - they are monsters - killers without conscience.

20 posted on 04/29/2011 1:30:05 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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