This will be a short diary. I've been involved in a global-warming twitter-discussion with Dana Rohrabacher, the esteemed Vice Chairman of the House Science Committee.
I know that trying to educate Rohrabacher about basic climate-science is a fool's errand, but that is not why I've been tweeting him. Rohrabacher's twitter feed is a gold-mine of elementary-school science blunders that might be used to embarrass some of his more sensible constituents into distancing themselves from him, and I've been engaging him in an attempt to add more nuggets to that gold-mine.
Rohrabacher recently has been insisting that solar activity, not CO2, is responsible for recent warming, so I asked him on twitter, "If solar activity is responsible, then why is the stratosphere cooling"?
I'll post his reply after the jump to give folks here an opportunity to secure their hot beverages first.
Hot beverages secured?
OK, let me present to you the Vice Chairman on the House Science Committee as he dazzles you with his in-depth understanding of greenhouse-gas-induced stratospheric-cooling.
Dana Rohrabacher on Stratospheric Cooling
And to think that NASA and NOAA have to answer to this guy -- the mind boggles.
Here's the twitter link: https://twitter.com/...
Those of you out there with twitter accounts may want to consider retweeting that link. My twitter reach is quite modest.