From Ellen Goodman's column at the Boston Glob:
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
According to the chart above, it looks like global warming really took off after 1980, the year in which she received a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. Must be all that hot air she spews.
Let's see what Ellen Goodman's qualifications are for saying that "global warming is impossible to deny": She graduated in 1963 with a degree in modern European history from Radcliffe College. Since 1967 she's been working for the Boston Glob as a babbler.
Compare Ms Goodman's CV to some "Holocaust Denier" like Dr Timothy Ball, one of the first Canadian Ph.Ds. in Climatology with an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Clearly, a modern European history major from Radcliffe carries more weight than somebody with a Ph.D from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg.
And what's the weather going to be like in Des Moines for the next week?
This Afternoon: A slight chance of flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 13. Wind chill values between zero and 5. Northwest wind around 7 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 2. Wind chill values between -5 and -10. Northwest wind between 5 and 8 mph.
Saturday: Scattered flurries after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 16. Wind chill values between -10 and zero. West northwest wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm.
Saturday Night: Scattered flurries before midnight. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 10. Wind chill values between zero and 5. Calm wind becoming southeast between 4 and 7 mph.
Sunday: A 50 percent chance of snow after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. East wind 6 to 9 mph becoming south.
Sunday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14.
Monday: A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 22.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 9.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 16.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 4.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 17.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 2.
Thursday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 19.
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