It never fails. Every time winter comes around a political cartoon like this one always surfaces:

The basic premise being, “It snowed this year, therefore global warming doesn’t exist”.

I have heard some very powerful and well thought out arguments against global warming, but this isn’t one of them.

And yet every year political cartoonists redraw the same premise after the first snowstorm of the season.

Though I must say that these cartoons still pale in comparison to the infamous “Peanut Butter Pastor” for its full and complete lack of understanding of the science behind the issues:

and of course the “Banana Crafted By God For Humanity” argument:

Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not using these individuals to say that anyone who doesn’t believe in global warming or evolution is just as silly and misguided. I really despise that sort of tactic. It’s one of the reasons I do not like “Penn & Teller’s Bullsh*t” show.

They pick out the worst examples of people who hold a certain belief, make them look like idiots and then say the belief is therefore idiotic as well. Really a vile way to disprove something.

Still, I have to say that I didn’t have an issue with Penn & Teller’s show until they went after something I believed in. Then I noticed what they were doing.

I think it is often the case that when someone is defending your views you tend to ignore any major fallacies in their argument or any underhanded tactics (which is probably why I chuckle whenever they draw Bush as a short little monomaniacal troll and I get a little ticked when they draw Obama as a withdrawn elitist beanstalk).

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