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Liberals attack DeMint’s ‘Al Gore cries uncle’ jab
Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) attempt to use the latest D.C. snowstorm to fuel skepticism about global warming is drawing fire from liberal and environmental bloggers.
As Tuesday’s snowstorm approached, DeMint proclaimed via Twitter that “It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries ‘uncle.’”
On the blog Treehugger, Daniel Kessler writes, “It's to be expected that climate change skeptics and deniers would use any strange weather to back up their case that climate change is a hoax, but this is beyond the pale.”
Environmentalists say that short-term weather patterns do not undercut evidence of global warming, and that increases in heavy precipitation events are in fact among the outcomes expected in the changing climate.
Think Progress, a blog hosted by the liberal Center for American Progress, on Tuesday struck back at both DeMint and Fox News for claiming the region’s heavy snowfall should undermine Al Gore’s advocacy about global warming.
