Quote of the Week – Harry Reid’s Cherry Blossom Picking: FAIL

Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Senator Harry Reid’s Press Release: Time To Stop Acting Like Climate Change Deniers Have A Valid Point Of View – They Don’t

‘If skeptics had taken a stroll along Potomac River on a 70-degree day this Feb., they would have seen cherry trees blossoming earlier than at any time since they were planted 100 years ago’

Umm, no. Let’s go to the data…

Correction for Reid: Both 1990 and 2000 had earlier blooms:

The National Park Service (NPS) has confirmed Washington, D.C.’s cherry blossoms peaked on March 20, tied for third earliest on record.

In the NPS’s 92-year record dating back to 1921, the only years with earlier bloom dates were 1990 (March 15) and 2000 (March 17) . Three other years in the record matched this year’s peak bloom date of March 20: 1921, 1927, and 1945.

You’d think with a well paid staff at his disposal, Senator Reid could at least do some fact checking before bloviating about how “deniers” have no valid point of view.

How embarrassing it must be that us mere bloggers have to point out his factual gaffes he and his staff miss.

Here is Senator James Inhofe’s Press Release on Reid’s announcement:

“He says ‘the time to act is now’ – yet Reid hasn’t brought a cap-and-trade bill to floor since 2008, & he’s the one who said cap-and-trade had been deleted from his dictionary”

“If it’s time to act on anything, it would be to stop President Obama from implementing these global warming policies that the American people have clearly rejected”

Perhaps the title should have been: Time To Stop Acting Like Senator Reid Has A Valid Point Of View on Global Warming – He Doesn’t

h/t to Climate Depot

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