Colbert Follows Fox News' Example On Climate Change: 'It Is Dark Outside' So 'We Can Only Assume The Sun Has Been Destroyed' (VIDEO)

Anybody else notice this headline in Raw Story this morning?
"32 dead in Brazil heat wave."

Not sure if I got the tag right, but this is the link for the Brazil heat wave story. Useful to bring up when your winger friends start blaming winter on Al Gore.
Forgot it was the WaPo-- it's become a habit to forget the WaPo.

Conservatives revel in our incredulity that they can be this fucking stupid.

It's just more of the immature "Heh, I made a liberal mad, we win! Durrrrrr." bullshit. The animus is on full display with our fucking retard trolls here.

This shameful swipe at Al Gore by Fox News feels far more insidious than any of their normal political ambushes. As opposed to lambasting a political philosophy, they're attacking science and proven fact here. What's more, they're ridiculing decades of tireless work by thousands of scientists, men and women from around the world that have rightly articulated a climate change in our planet. Hey, sorry Fox, that "Global Warming" doesn't work hand-in-glove with your entourage of mindless catch phrases like "Death Tax" and "Clean Coal" and "No Child Left Behind. It's simple morons: global warming leads to climate change, which leads to new, and often intense, weather patters. Duh. And there's no disputing the weather in this country—whether rain or sun or snow—has been working the edges of the historical bell curve. What if a network ran a story about how most of the prophecies in the Bible have never come true? Would it, therefore, be "a bad day for the folks that wrote the bible?" Someone should sue Fox over this. Seriously.

See how reinforcing ignorance works to the advantage of radical conservatives?

It seemed to be denier debunking day in the reality-based media yesterday, and I'm glad. Too many even among us who accept what the the science is telling us can't explain why the deniers are wrong and don't understand the basics. To that end, among the debunkings, I recommend the opening segment of last night's Rachel Maddow with improbably basketball buzzer-beating shots and Bill Nye the science guy. The "snow disproves global warming" claim falls apart for both statistical and climate science reasons.

Nice one, Colbert. A winter storm says as much about the climate as the market closing up or down a couple points on a given day says about the year's economy.

And really, Al Gore's theory? Seriously? The guy spends a couple years presenting the extremely simplified bottom line of results from people gathering the data and doing the math since the 50s, and they're spinning it as HIS theory?

Ironic that the people who don't believe we're related to animals seem to be the clearest evidence that we are.

Only thing funny about this dink Colbert is his freaky-looking ear that sticks out on one side of his dorky head.