Stephen Colbert Says Global Warming Doesn’t Exist

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by ecorazzicontributor January 12, 2011
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Did anyone catch Monday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report,” where host Stephen Colbert claimed that global warming is no longer a thing because “the American people voted that it’s not”?

Okay, that was obviously said satirically, and we know that it’s very much real, as did his guest Fen Montaigne, the author of Fraser’s Penguins. His book explores the world of Antarctica in the midst of climate change, and how those differences in temperature are affecting the penguins of the region.

Cute little tuxedo penguins to be exact! How awful is that?

In the interview, Colbert joked about why global warming is over. “Excuse me sir, global warming is no longer happening,” the host said. “It was very popular in 2007, I believed in it then because Al Gore’s movie made money, but now he’s getting divorced.”

But Montaigne smartly fired back, “The strangest thing is happening, even despite this new Congress, many of whose members don’t believe in global warming, it’s still going on.”

He then explained that on a recent trip to Antarctica, he wasn’t nearly as cold as he should have been, and that the high temperature there was 52 degrees Fahrenheit. “That’s warm!” he exclaimed.

Watch Colbert and Montaigne debate global warming and the future of penguins in the Antarctic after the jump below.


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  • William Holder

    Unprecedented low temperatures and snow here (Asheville, NC) and elsewhere (UK) for two years in a row after being told for a decade that AGW would result in milder winters and less snow.

    http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims–Challenge-UN-IPCC–Gore

    See this chart for a bigger picture of climate.

    http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/gisp-last-10000-new.png

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Lamb/100000872581980 Josh Lamb

      Learn. Theres something called weather. Weather still happens and global warming causes weather to be worse. Check NASA climate change, its scientificaly proven.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Guy-Holder/100001713893751 Guy Holder

    Josh – I’ve been studying AGW since 1989 and was a great advocate through 2004 when evidence began to mount that data was manipulated and exagerated. AGW is a hypothesis – it is not scientifically proven. If you study the chart above you will see that core data confirms not only frequent and extreme change in climate since the last interglacial but that this change can happen very quickly. Moreover you will notice that our current “warm” temperatures are somewhat lower than they have been in the past. Please be advised that the movie that influenced so many people is factually innacurate in a myriad of ways. Spend some time doing some research on your own rather than take as gospel everything a handful (the scientific consensus you’ve heard so much about is composed of about 75 climate scientists who rely on funding that will only be forthcoming if they can continue to produce evidence to support AGW) of scientists are spoonfeeding you.

  • Michael Raymer

    “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton should be required reading for anyone who wants to debate global warming. There is enough “dry” fact to go along with the drama to be both entertained and educated. I highly recommend it.

    • whiplash

      Looks like these clowns went to the same school as the pro-whaling propaganda puppets.

      • William Holder

        As regards Fraser’s Penguins, see the the latest cover of “Nature” magazine that reads, “Flipper-banding reduces penguins fitness and skews climate data”. Apparently the study only servrd to stress and increase the mortality of banded penguins and revealed little about climate change. As far as clowns are concerned, I’m sure you are a lot funnier than I am.

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