[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You've been warned!

[KarlInOhio]

Kneel Before The Meteorologist

Ick!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Vitriol squared?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Shoot, call all the evos, they'll love this guy.

[Paradox]

I dunno, but I listen to Dr. Gray (who makes the famous yearly hurricane predictions) and Max Mayfield, of the National Hurricane Center. Both of them say global warming isn't responsible for the upswing in hurricanes.

[dirtboy]

Check that: It takes two hurricanes of such lethal and undeniable force that even the Bush administration is forced to kneel in abject deference before the great altar of the professional "forecaster," a.k.a. the trained meteorologist, a.k.a. the atmospheric scientist, those smart nerdy button-down types most of whom work for the nonpartisan National Weather Service and who put out all those dire warnings about imminent storms and deadly heat waves and massive floods and who actually are, sorry Dubya, well-trained scientists with genuine university degrees and who can do all that complex math and research and other stuff Bush loathes the way Paris Hilton hates polysyllabic words.

I'd like to buy a period or two, Pat...

And beyond writing the mother of all run-on sentences (and Miss Morford knows a thing or two about run-ons), if Morford bothered researching those who forecast hurricanes for a living, they would, to a man, tell Moffie that this is a natural cycle.

But Moffie isn't into what comes naturally anyway.

[Moose4]

Well, Miss Morford is an expert on kneeling before men. And bending over for them, and lying on his stomach in front of them, and...

}:-)4

[hombre_sincero]

Have you noticed - during the clintoon years, ALL the so-called "meteorologists" spouted the same party line about the global warming and El Nino - La Nina - over and over and over until the sheeples responded eyes-glazed over --- "Yes, massa!"

When Bush was elected, we actually went back to, at least for a while, weather forecasts on the boob tube.

Lately, there has been this more subtle attempt at brainwashing with all the emphasis on "record high temperature ... averages" Emphasizing possible record highs ,and never mentioning the temps never made it that far - but if they did ...!!!

The "meteorologists" are back to their leftist techniques again using the power of "statistics" to create averages that will reflect whatever they want. As long as it reflects BAD on this country.

Example - Here where I live, a semi-rain forest region (Hot Springs, Arkansas) it averages 50-60+ inches of rain and the temperature range (actual) is from -10 to 110 - not always and not often. The local weather is always crying about the "drought conditions" and the "record avg heat" we are experiencing ... Funny part is - I have only watered my lawn 2 or 3 times this year, and I think the temperature actually broke 100 only once or twice. this year ---- very nice and mild year. BUT it did average higher overall since the winter also was a bit warmer average (after record cold!) and the average highs went up from the lack of cold fronts that occasionally make it down this far in summer.

Anyway -- ramble on here .....

The new leftist propaganda tool in America --- your neighborhood "meteorologist"!

Pay attention to what and HOW they say the weather! Especially the HOW!

[buffyt]

author's email mmorford@sfgate.com

[Theophilus]

it's evident that this homo? makes science a religion but it's probably not his first religion which is probably himself.

[mesoman7]

As one of those govt meteorologists, I agree with the hurricane experts. Cat 5 storms are not unprecedented. Global warming? Most of the operational types (like myself) who deal with weather on a day-to-day basis are skeptical. I see the variations in temperature observations. Move a thermometer 50ft and you will get quite a different reading. Sensors are only so accurate. When I see the global warming "experts" claim proof as a 1 or 2 degree change in global temp...I have to wonder. If there is indeed warming...I seriously doubt that mere mortals have anything to do with it. In other words...it is natural, so deal with it.

[Evacuee]

Wow, that is truly the nastiest, most personally vindictive piece of writing I have ever encountered. Someone forgot to take his happy pill this morning.