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Rep. Steve King and President Obama Comment on Winter Weather. MediaMatters, February 19, 2010. "Addressing a crowd on February 19 at the annual conference of the American Conservative Union... Rep. Steve King [said that recent snow storms] disproves climate change. King said 'It's tough to make an argument when the evidence is all around us with a snowy white wonder in a crystal cathedral'... At a town hall in Nevada on February 19, President Obama directly addressed the issue [video, 2:05 min]: 'First of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington and so everybody's like-a lot of the people who are opponents of climate change, they say 'see, look at that. There's all this snow on the ground, you know, this doesn't mean anything. 'I want to just be clear that the science of climate change doesn't mean that every place is getting warmer.It means that the planet as a whole is getting warmer. But what it may mean is, for example, Vancouver which is supposed to be getting snow during the Olympics, suddenly is at 55 degrees and Dallas suddenly is getting seven inches of snow. The idea is that the planet as a whole get warmer, you start seeing changing weather patterns and that creates more violent storm systems, more unpredictable weather, so any single place might end up being warmer. Another place might end up being a little bit cooler. There might end up being more precipitation in the air. More monsoons, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more drought in some places, floods in other places."