At least he has withdrawn the natural cyclical variation in the climate arguement as his main rationale. Now he has: “It was almost as hot during the summer when I was a kid.”

This is the same George Will who berated Robert Schiller back in the mid-2000s
(also on This Week?) for warning of the impending real estate bubble. Also.

I guess George Will’s extensive background in atmospheric chemistry, climate science, and the numerous published, peer reviewed scientific papers in this field that he has written, all make him a well qualified person to ask about this.

Joe Romm, 2009, writing about George Will: (Joe doesn’t pull his punches)

“But with today’s column, “Dark Green Doomsayers,” Will not only shows that he is the leading conservative media victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS) — he is the Typhoid Mary of ASS.

Again, as I’ve shown, the public’s concern about climate isn’t plunging — only conservatives’ concern about climate is dropping because Typhoid George and his ilk spread disinformation and anti-science syndrome to their lemming-like followers ”

Good summary and debunking here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/02/15/203700/george-will-global-cooling-warming-debunked/

“The explanation: “Summer.” He remembers summer as a kid.”

maybe he’s a time traveller from the future.

No wonder why people come up with movies like 2012…:D

Heh. That would explain a lot.

Twenty-first century America is a place where, if you have enough money and a stupid enough audience, you can literally buy your own facts. Nowhere is that more true than with respect to global warming.

Will-ful ignorance. It is true that scientists are inclined to not conclude a long-term trend based on short-term events, but there is now a preponderance of evidence that can’t be denied (unless you’re paid well enough to stick your foot in your mouth).

Al Gore grew old talking about it. Then he gave up.

Now we got Willie.

Beats the hell out of me why anyone bothers to watch this idiot, the idiotic show he appears on, or the idiotic news organization that produces it. You’d have to be a moron to get your news from the Disney Company.

Wonder if they would still have this attitude if we took away their AC ?

You’d have to be a moron to get your news from the Disney Company.

Well there you go.

It pains me to point out that Will is a Trustee of Princeton,
as is fellow ABC deep thinker Charlie Gibson.
Technically, Paul Krugman works for them.

Heat doesn’t bother conservatives since their vision for America is a living hell.

There were several major snowstorms in DC a few years ago, and they made quite a bit of hay about that. I presume Will’s house did not lose power. Too bad.

An alien takeover of earth would begin with the jamming and reprogramming of all TV signals. Come to think of it, maybe what we have now is just such an attack with the aliens assuming human forms (among the lesser-disguised ones: Ann Coulter, Rick Scott).

Actually, alien invasion is starting to sound pretty reasonable, maybe they’re actively trying to change the climate to suit their own species and I thought V ( the TV series) was just Sci-fi. Or maybe Occam’s Razor is the case here and George Will is just a gigantic asshole.

Facts can be stubborn things.
One of these idiots comments that climate change is a political issue.
Wrong. The response to climate change is the political issue.

Book Salon up with Hannah Gurman’s The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond hosted by Michael K. Busch

Same old story. If southern style biblical prophecy is wrong or there is no God, then we might as well light ourselves on fire and call it a day. Unfortunately, we’re all being forced to live in the suicide cult’s gasoline barrel compound.

Wait. Isn’t he one of the reasonable ones?

Unprecedented freak storms ripped through many parts of the US, taking out power systems and causing local blackouts for days.

Summer in Illinois is not noted for freak wind storms. Freak Thunder Storms in summer yes but wind with little or no rain? No

Also our summer hot season is mid July-August lets see how long George can keep doing a two step.

Third Freak storms are a product of more heat heat is energy as long as we still have cold heat and cold will try and balance out resulting in more wind.

Fourth this is a la Nina Year its suppose to be cooler next up is El Nino its suppose to be hotter but this year it seems that there will be no one year break between La Nina and El Nino years weather patterns driven by more heat/energy are changing faster.
The first year of an El Nino or La Nina is normally weak the next year the weather pattern gets stronger but with the change so far seeming not to have a year break inbetween…all bets are off on predictions.
Last I heard El Nino should be here late August.
Remember El Nino is suppose to be warmer than the La Nina we are in now. But again all bets and predictions are now off.
I can’t predict change when patterns are new nobody can.

If you haven’t, see “The Arrival”

The plot is exactly as you describe.

He’s still alive?

““Corn yields were falling five bushels a day during the past week” in the driest parts of the Midwest, said Fred Below, a plant biologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana. “You couldn’t choreograph worse weather conditions for pollination. It’s like farming in hell.”
Despite earlier predictions of a record yield, revised forecasts are anticipating crop losses not seen since the drought of 1988.
The Midwestern drought now encompasses portions of five corn producing states, including almost all of Ohio. “‘It all quickly went from ideal to tragic,’ said Don Duvall, a farmer in Illinois who, in what was a virtually rainless June, has watched two of his cornfields dry up and die as others remain in some uncertain in-between.”

George Will should have a meeting with these people, I’m sure they would find him reassuring.

(climate progress today)

The cost of these losses should be thought of as an indirect subsidy to the fossil fuel industries.

Because that’s what they are.