Ignorance That Just Won't Die

The sources for the video (most of which are of the shambling, undead, denier variety):

• The Scientific American article and NOAA's infographics.
• "Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1."
• "Coldest Year On Record So Far In The US."
• "Global Warming Alert! 2014 coldest year on record."
• "Winter 2014 set to be 'coldest for century' Britain faces ARCTIC FREEZE in just weeks."
• "US Midwest Having Their Coldest Year On Record."
• "Summer 2014 is the coldest in a decade."
• "Coldest U.S. winter in a century."
• "UK weather: Is Britain braced for worst winter in 100 years?" (Note: I included these UK articles, because the fear seems to be that frigid eastern US weather will flow or be replicated across the Pond somehow...here's the UK Met Office's counter-assertion for anyone interested.)
• "Settled Science Update."
• "US Short On Greenhouse Gases Tonight."
• "US Temperatures Plummeting At Seven Degrees Per Century."
• "All 50 states have below freezing temperatures."

(Note: the images are from various news agencies that can be found by searching for "buffalo ny snow," and, well, "zombie," so they will not be sourced.)

Arctic Sea Ice Extent on Google Earth

Similar things have been done before, certainly, but I added some trend data/graphs at the end of the video for perspective. Oh, and Meniscus for ear candy. :)

Notes from Underground

My anonymous sources at the Dept. of Interior have leaked some critical mining industry intelligence. :)

You can often catch the PowerPoint presentation creator contributing over at Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog under the user name tokodave. He's a lifelong outdoorsman, backcountry skier and mountaineer, and one of many who try to stem the inexorable tide of ignorant climate denial in the comment section (NOT in Phil's articles), while the powers that be at Slate remain asleep at the switch, letting deniers infest the site and pollute the conversation for whatever silly reason.