Posted on 04/29/2011 10:42:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf
The south is still realizing the full extent of the damage caused by this week’s storms. Nearly 300 people are dead. The country is rallying in support of the devatated areas, and President Obama (who must have learned something from ignoring Nashville’s flood last year) is set break character to visit the very red state today.
Anyone with a soul feels pain for those affected. Thousands have lost everything. Lives were destroyed. Think Progress (via Da Tech Guy) has instead chosen to adopt the Pat Robertson model and claim Divine Justice for those redneck Republican climate change deniers in the south.
“Given that global warming is unequivocal,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth cautioned the American Meteorological Society in January of this year, “the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of ‘of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.’”
"The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists."
You’re reading that right. To paraphrase Brad Johnson’s post: Since the south has rejected the climate change hysteria, clearly they’re just asking for the wrath of Gaia, and should expect to be demolished.
Link to the original ThinkStupid article.
WARNING: You will be sickened to the point of projectile vomiting at this site.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/28/tornado-global-warming/
The internet makes people much braver than they are.
If a prick were to say that in my presence, there would be need of immediate medical attention.
LOL, Can’t Think and Never Progress are a religion in their own right. That’s what you get, you rednecks in the South, for not supporting Obaaaaaaaaaaahma and other leftist causes.
Now bleat it:
Obaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahma
I did not know “global warming” was retaliatory
The left is insane. I think you really have to have a mental illness to be a “liberal”
The comments are what are really sickening. It’d be the equivalent of us whooping it up at “those liberal rat pinko bastards up there in New Yawk gettin’ it” on 9/11...WHICH WE DIDN’T. Instead, schoolchildren in Lexington County, SC (where I lived at the time) raised over two hundred thousand dollars to buy a hard-hit FDNY station a new fire truck and paint it with the names of the men the station lost in the WTC.
These smug, hateful bastards really would prefer we conservatives, especially Southern white ones, died. They’d honestly rather see us dead in the streets or buried in the rubble of our homes than continuing to live on “their” precious planet.
}:-)4
The Left shows how much they care about humanity yet again...
So many who profess to love humanity, it seems, really hate people...
“These smug, hateful bastards really would prefer we conservatives, especially Southern white ones, died. They’d honestly rather see us dead in the streets or buried in the rubble of our homes than continuing to live on “their” precious planet.”
DING! DING!! WE HAVE A WINNER, FOLKS!
When you begin to understand that what drives some of these people is an INSANE HATE, fueled by mental instability, you really do begin to understand them.
Congratulations, kids! You’re Pat Robertson.
You can tell from the way those tornadoes skipped miraculously over Black residences and areas and singled out those Bible-thumping racist rednecks. (Everyone knows Blacks in the South are secular humanists who wouldn't be caught dead with a Bible, right?) [/sarcasm]
Will Obama give a civility speech to shame cretins like this who celebrate mass death?
“Given that global warming is unequivocal,”
That’s the problem. It is not “unequivocal”.
“Climate change” is “unequivocal”, and guess what, it ALWAYS IS; it’s always changing, even when our puny lifetimes and puny historical memories mistakenly believe there is a “normal” (the normal we prefer of course). There isn’t.
How has man continually survived “climate change”. Adaptation; not to “make the weather what we want it to be”, but adapting to it where we are.
“..the stronger-than-usual tornadoes affecting the southern states were actually predicted from examining the planet’s climatological patterns, specifically those related to the La Nina phenomenon.
“We knew it was going to be a big tornado year,” he said. But the key to that tip-off was unrelated to climate change: “It is related to the natural fluctuations of the planet.”
International News 24/7
28 April 2011 - 22H45
http://www.france24.com/en/20110428-tornadoes-whipped-wind-not-climate-officials
Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate: officials
AFP - US meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south.
“If you look at the past 60 years of data, the number of tornadoes is increasing significantly, but it’s agreed upon by the tornado community that it’s not a real increase,” said Grady Dixon, assistant professor of meteorology and climatology at Mississippi State University.
“It’s having to do with better (weather tracking) technology, more population, the fact that the population is better educated and more aware. So we’re seeing them more often,” Dixon said.
But he said it would be “a terrible mistake” to relate the up-tick to climate change.
The tornadoes that ripped through the US south this week killed over 250 people, in the worst US weather disaster in years, with residents and emergency workers sifting through the rubble on Thursday.
Violent twisters that famously rip through the US south’s “Tornado Alley” are formed when strong jet winds bringing upper-level storms from the north interact with very warm, humid air mass from the Gulf of Mexico, said David Imy from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
On Wednesday, a particularly potent storm was whipping up around the heart of that tornado-prone corridor where the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, eastern Texas and northwest Louisiana meet, noted Kristina Pydynowski, a senior meteorologist at the AccuWeather.com website.
Sparking the severe thunderstorms from that point was the much warmer air arriving from the south, over the tropical Gulf. The combining winds at differing altitudes, said Pydynowski, created “significant twisting motion in the atmosphere, allowing the strongest thunderstorms to spawn tornadoes.”
Such a mixture would not be prevalent along the US eastern seaboard, so rough weather in that region Thursday would not also spawn tornadoes, at least on the same scale, she said.
Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also dismissed Thursday climate change as a factor in the deadly tornadoes: “Actually what we’re seeing is springtime,” he said.
“Many people think of Oklahoma as ‘Tornado Alley’ and forget that the southeast United States actually has a history of longer and more powerful tornadoes that stay on the ground longer.”
Wednesday’s deadly tornadoes, according to Imy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were unusual for being “long track,” meaning they were on the ground for a longer period of time than usual — in this case, roiling across the land for 30 miles (48 kilometers) or more.
An average track would be less than five miles, said Imy.
However, the stronger-than-usual tornadoes affecting the southern states were actually predicted from examining the planet’s climatological patterns, specifically those related to the La Nina phenomenon.
“We knew it was going to be a big tornado year,” he said. But the key to that tip-off was unrelated to climate change: “It is related to the natural fluctuations of the planet.”
bttt
So the next time a weather related disaster hits a blue state it’s because their reps support cap and trade?
No, of course not. It’s because of the dumb south. Everything that’s not Bush’s fault is the fault of dumb Southerners.
[I am a Southerner born and bred, so please don’t misunderstand my sarc.]
Thank god we are al civil now. whew!!! I was worried about that. Uhhhh, civil war anyone???
Other issues by Think Progress that get what they deserve:
1) Christians killed by members of the Religion of Peace because of the Crusades of 1000 years ago
2) The high Black on White Crime rate due to slavery and Jim Crow laws
3) High male unemployment rate due to white privilege
4) Texas Wildfires due to it’s oil and Natural gas production
5) High food inflation in America due to it’s greedy, imperialistic past
6) Sarah Palin being called a C U Next Tuesday for daring to give birth to a special needs child
7) Border Violence due to illegally seizing traditional Mexican lands.
I heard one explanation that said the Jet Stream was late in moving North this year, explaining the cold spring in many places, and that if it had been a normal year, those tornados would have ranged from Southwest Kentucky through Northeast Ohio.
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