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A Cold Start To Thanksgiving Week Will Spawn Climate Change IlliteracyLuckily this only happens in Thanksgiving week, eh?
Marshall Shepherd, Senior Contributor, Forbes
Like clockwork, I will also start to see Tweets and Facebook posts claiming that global warming or climate change is not real because its cold. These types of Tweets belong in the Hall of Fame (or Shame) of Climate Illiteracy.So now believers are primed to gasp or snigger at the right moment round the dinner table. Marshall goes on with a longwinded explanation of how it's cold now because a rock hit the Earth when it was a baby-world and made winter. He even links to a childrens page at NASA — possibly because most believers are child-like, or he thinks they are not too smart.
Comment: Fleetmon gave an update on the situation yesterday, 19th November: Research indicates that ice ages can come on rather quickly, and there are numerous signs that our planet is now entering a period of significant cooling: