Donald Trump Is A Big Fat Idiot (Climate Edition)

Gusss I gotta re-run this map for Donald Trump.
It's the world this week. Blue is colder than normal. Orange
is warmer than normal. See? The whole world isn't
frigid, just part of North America.

I know I will offend some of you with a political rant on a weather and climate blog, but the exasperating Donald Trump has just exasperated me again with his climate bullcrap.

Just as he did three or four years ago when a nasty cold winter cold wave hit New York City, The Donald is now tweeting that the current Arctic cold blast the eastern half of the U.S. is getting "proves" climate change is a hoax.

Of course, by Trump's logic, the record heat waves that swept different parts of the country in recent years would "prove" that global warming is even worse than anybody thought.

Neither scenario is true, of course. Everybody knows, except Trump and his minions soaked in oil industry money, that when one small part of the world is particularly warm or particularly cold, that doesn't mean anything.

Trump either is too dumb understand the basic difference between weather and climate, or he hopes his followers are too stupid to figure it out.

For the record, the Dumbster, er, Trumpster tweeted this out: "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!"

Sigh. Let me explain it to Trump again. Weather is what happens outside your window in the moment. It's cold now. It will be snowy sometime later this winter. We'll probably have a thaw, then another cold wave. It will rain. There will be mixed precipitation, spring will someday arrive. What happens just depends on what weather system is over your head on a given day.

Climate is the long term trend. Over a a wide area, or the whole globe for that matter.

The New York Times used an analogy that even Trump might understand, because it involves money:

"......weather is how much money you have in your pocket today, whereas climate is your net worth. A billionaire who has forgotten his wallet one day is not poor, anymore than a poor person who lands a windfall of several hundred dollars is suddenly rich. What matters is what  happens over the long term."

I'm sure Trump's ill-informed weather and climate tweet from Thursday night was mostly aimed at his dumb (or at best, badly misinformed or brainwashed) base, who chortle at the eggheads who actually understand science, just a little. Or live in a world where facts matters. Where physics is a reality, not some hoax perpetrated by those greedy Chinese.

Hey Trump! It's winter, you dipshit! It gets cold in the winter, with or without global warming. Grow up!

Of course, Trump's tweet was as predictable as this current cold snap. On Wednesday, the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang tweeted the following:

"U.S. to be coldest region in world relative to normal over next week. Please note rest of world will be much warmer than normal lest anyone try to claim pocket of cold in U.S. debunks global warming which they will invariably and irresponsibly do."

I guess Trump is getting his marching orders from the Washington Post now, instead of his old standby, Fox & Friends.

As noted, I'm waiting for Donald to tweet that global warming is here the next time a record warm spell hits. I bet all there will be is crickets at that point.