March 30, 2019: Alaska Warming Fast Says NOAA - Trump Says Who?

 

3/30/19: Weekend temperatures in parts of Alaska are 50° above normal. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, the state is the “fastest-warming” part of our country. On March 19, the town of Klawock reported the earliest 70° temperature ever recorded in the state. 

See if you can spot a trend: 

 

A search of Trump’s Twitter feed shows that only once has he ever cited the NOAA in a tweet. That was to show pictures of how large Hurricane Florence was. By comparison, he has discounted climate change/global warming dozens of times, typically mistaking weather for climate. For example, we had this on February 18, 2015: “Among the lowest temperatures EVER in much of the United States. Ice caps at record size. Changed name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE.”

 

Any fool could check NASA records and discover that, globally, for the entire year, 2015 was the second hottest ever, with 2016 hottest, 2017 third and 2018 fourth. You could look up stories about the tremendous decline in ice in the Arctic Ocean. You could check NASA records for the last sixty years, noting significant ice losses in the Antarctic. Assuming you weren’t a fool yourself, you wouldn’t be fooled by Trump and the right-wingers who like to point to one NASA report that showed limited ice gains in parts of the Antarctic in 2015.