It’s sad, watching a washed up politician struggle to try draw attention to himself, especially immediately after endorsing a candidate (along with the Swimmer and the Massachusetts governor) who proceeded to lose in his own backyard. That should have been enough for a normal person to understand as being a signal of his personal irrelevency to the commonweal.
But not for our boy Horseface:Sen. Kerry Blames Tornados on Global Warming
“[I] don’t want to sort of leap into the larger meaning of, you know, inappropriately, but on the other hand, the weather service has told us we are going to have more and more intense storms,” Kerry said. “And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth. And so it goes to global warming and larger issues that we’re not paying attention to. The fact is the hurricanes are more intensive, the storms are more intensive and the rainfall is more intense at certain places at certain times and the weather patterns have changed.”
That statement is chock full of “FAIL.” First, “the weather service” (whatever the hell that is, in this respect) has not unequivocally “told us we are going to have more and more intense storms” because of global warming. According to a recently released study:
Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how manmade global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.
In it, researchers link warming waters, especially in the Indian and Pacific oceans, to increased vertical wind shear in the Atlantic Ocean near the United States. Wind shear — a change in wind speed or direction — makes it hard for hurricanes to form, strengthen and stay alive.
So that means “global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States,” according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Miami Lab and the University of Miami.
Now I know what just smacked into the states weren’t hurricanes, Lurch (though I’m not sure you do). Still, if you’re gonna bloviate about things as if you were some kind of expert, you should be up on the reasons honest-to-God scientists believe those twisters hit, and your “explanation” certainly ain’t it:
Meteorologists are quick to say they cannot blame global warming. There is not enough good data over enough years with weather events as small as tornadoes, to draw such conclusions. [emphasis mine]
But there were plenty of the standard ingredients for tornado formation Tuesday: a strong storm system coming from the west (this one buried parts of Colorado in snow); warm air near the ground; high winds; and warm moist air coming north from the Gulf of Mexico.
While La Nina doesn’t specifically cause tornadoes, it helps shift the jet stream, pushing storms from the West and moisture from the Gulf into the necessary collision course over the South, said Schaefer.
Like El Nino, it happens every few years, and it’s been changing global weather patterns for a few months now, strengthening in January, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, which monitors La Nina.
Since these actual climate scientists have shredded you assertion that global warming is the culprit, let me ask a question: throughout all this “global warming” malarkey, you idiots pimping its alleged existence never seem to take in something as plainly obvious as what effect the sun has on what may be happening in our planet’s atmosphere; why is that?
Could it be because Ol’ Sol doesn’t seem to be playing along with your “Doomsday’s Coming!” scenario:
Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a “stethoscope for the sun.” Recent magnetic field readings are as low as he’s ever seen, he says, and he’s worked with the instrument for more than 25 years. If the sun remains this quiet for another a year or two, it may indicate the star has entered a downturn that, if history is any precedent, could trigger a planetary cold spell that could bring massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
I guess that’s why you folks try to ignore it.
Finally, there is this ridiculous sentence stuck in the middle of this ridiculous pissant pontificating paragraph: “And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth.”
Lemme clue you into a little secret, Frenchy: insurance companies are in the business of making money. Ipso facto, if they are “beginning to look at this issue” it is most likely as a way to tap into the public hysteria that asshats like you and the Goracle help create as an excuse to raise their rates.
“These storms are gonna get worse and worse and the oceans are gonna rise; you really need a stronger coverage plan since you live in (fill in the blank: hurricane-prone zone/tornado territory/along the shoreline).
Your current policy ain’t gonna cut it when the Big One comes; you gotta beef that sucker up!”
Postscript: Bob Krumm (and his commenters) also takes a swing at Kerry.
“Since these actual climate scientists have shredded you assertion that global warming is the culprit…”
Have they?
“….let me ask a question: throughout all this “global warming” malarkey, you idiots pimping its alleged existence never seem to take in something as plainly obvious as what effect the sun has on what may be happening in our planet’s atmosphere; why is that?”
First off, I’m not “pimping” anything…in fact, I believe the evidence collected thus far is inconclusive, and further research is needed.
My question is, what makes YOU think you have the final word on climate change?
And what might motivate you to insist that climate change itself is totally nonexistent?
“Could it be because Ol’ Sol doesn’t seem to be playing along with your “Doomsday’s Coming!” scenario:”………
I guess that’s why you folks try to ignore it.”
I’m not ignoring ANYTHING. It’s all part of the (fascinating) larger picture.
Could your extreme hatred (yes, HATRED) for these individual personalities be feeding your refusal to even consider climate change and any possible root causes?
“Finally, there is this ridiculous sentence stuck in the middle of this ridiculous pissant pontificating paragraph: “And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth.””
And, I can attest to this personally, although, again, the fact that the research is not yet definitive. Because of this, no pronouncements can be issued, but it is all on the table (would that they would give my admonitions to similarly examine the effects of ionospheric heaters and scalar weather technology the same scrutiny…)
“Lemme clue you into a little secret, Frenchy: insurance companies are in the business of making money.”
TC? News flash…your Sarkozy is in. Your fatwa against the French has been officially called off…
“Ipso facto, if they are “beginning to look at this issue” it is most likely as a way to tap into the public hysteria that asshats like you and the Goracle help create as an excuse to raise their rates.”
Uh, far be it for you and yours to dare accuse ANYONE of “tapping into public hysteria” for personal and public gain….
““These storms are gonna get worse and worse and the oceans are gonna rise; you really need a stronger coverage plan since you live in (fill in the blank: hurricane-prone zone/tornado territory/along the shoreline).”
That’s why your brilliant Army Corps of “Engineers” is rebuilding levees only to 1950 standards, no?
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I get why someone would legitimately criticize the profiteers and calamity howlers that have leeched onto the climate change debate.
I can’t understand how you choose to deliberately ignore the merits of a body of scientific research simply because it’s inconvenient (or perhaps unprofitable?) to do so, or think you can put forth one-sided assertions and propagandist-fueled myths from one side of the debate as if they were established fact and think you can get away with not being called on it.
I took Horseface’s assertion’s of scientific “truth” (or as the Goracle puts it: “complete consensus in the scientific community”) about storms, and specifically these tornadoes he was trying to politically exploit, and smacked both his assertions into the gutter. I also noted that an “inconvenient truth” that all these Chicken Littles tend to pooh-pooh, the Sun’s influence on Earth’s climate, is regularly left out of the story, since it can’t be successfully incorporated into “it’s all humanity’s (especially America’s) fault.”
I then gave an explanation for why the insurance industry, as Kerry cryptically croaked, “are beginning to look into this issue” that would be obvious to anyone who had not become rich by (twice) marrying their source of millionaire status, as opposed to working a real job to earn it.
My argument is the way that the Goracle and acolytes like Kerry are blithely going around scaring the shit out of people when, as even you noted, there isn’t any hard science–just computer models that leave out various variables that might screw their preferred conclusion–in order to force feed the American people a political agenda that if enacted (in the form of regulatory mandated limits that would totally fuck the American economy) that is more and more being treated as a friggin’ religion; so much so that any dissenting voice is treated like a heathen (or an obvious agent of “Big Oil”).
Is something going on with the planet’s climate? Sure. The scientific record shows that the planet’s climate has changed over the course of its existence, apparently in a cyclical fashion. Exactly what causes these changes and triggers the cycles, however, is an unanswered question due to the sheer scope of the different factors involved.
But these assholes say “We KNOW exactly what is happening right now AND MAN IS TO BLAME. There is no argument about it! REPENT, SINNERS, OR MOTHER EARTH WILL SMITE THEE!”
They scream “KYOTO ACCORDS!” yet ignore that the current signatories of that ridiculous treaty (especially the big EU members) pretty much ignore it or pay lip service to it through dumbassed games like “carbon offsets” and “cap and trade” schemes. Countries like China and India (among others) are given a total pass, while we are practically ORDERED by these High Priests to kowtow to their edicts in ways that would decimate our economy. Look at ethanol; it’s a gambit that makes huge (tax-subsidized) money for “Big Agra” companies, while concurrently driving up the costs of every level of basic foodstuffs.
When these fuckers accept that the logical way for the USA to cut down on emissions would be to embark on an Apollo program of nuke/”clean coal” power plant construction/conversion, to provide the country its energy needs (which, when it comes to nukes, is something they won’t even consider), then they can get back to me.
PS: I don’t give a rat’s ass whose currently running the dump, it will always be “Frogistan” to me.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 02/08/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
What an absolute, POS blog, “David”.