(See update at end)Blah blah blah, OF COURSE the meteorologist interviewed on MSNBC says today's tornado that flattened Moore, Oklahoma, is the biggest tornado in the history of the planet. HE WAS ON MSNBC, DUH. We have little of consequence to add beyond GENERAL FUCKING OUTRAGE!!!1! that we have BROKEN THE FUCKING WEATHER but Sarah Palin is still posting hilarious Facebook pix, like "SNOW? In ALASKA? Haw haw
Hey, Eric bin Eric: what a coincidink: God&#039;s will has been running <a href="http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/efscale\/torn5004.jpg" target="_blank">parallel to warming</a>.
It&#039;s still going to take centuries for nature to clear out the CO2 we&#039;ve dumped into the atmosphere already. Gonna be warm, and stay warm, long after we&#039;re gone.
And the Koch Bros. pulling the levers behind the curtain. Speaking ill of whom, have you seen the <a href="http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/struggling-with-urban-decay-detroit-now-has-a-mountain-of-unwanted-coke--thanks-to-antienvironmentalist-koch-brothers-8622866.html" target="_blank">gigantic pile of black crap</a> they&#039;ve dumped by the Detroit River?
Part of the Fujita scale involves measuring the damage on the ground. (The smaller the pieces, and the further they fly, the higher the score.) If there&#039;s a clean concrete slab where your house used to be, that was an F5.
All storms get their energy from heat. Hurricanes, tornadoes, even thunderstorms. The American midwest is measurably hotter than it used to be, and getting warmer every year . . . feel free to connect the dots.
Native Americans didn&#039;t see many tornadoes, actually. There&#039;s no question we&#039;re seeing a shitload more today: <a href="http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/efscale\/torn5004.jpg" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/torn5004.jpg">http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efs... Makes you wonder what it&#039;s going to be like 50 years from now, doesn&#039;t it?
NY and NJ are requiring new construction on the coasts to be elevated something like 8 feet above high tide. This is of course an outrageous infringement of whiny teabaggers&#039; Constitutional right to die in a storm (or suck a wad of disaster relief money out of the government if they survive.)
But fuck them: we are a liberal nanny state and we will protect them from their own stupidity whether they want us to or not.
Windghazi!!!!!!
Well, unfortunately those kids didn&#039;t get much of a chance to make decisions, did they? And yet they are dead.
Hey, Eric bin Eric: what a coincidink: God&#039;s will has been running <a href="http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/efscale\/torn5004.jpg" target="_blank">parallel to warming</a>.
... or just a Republican.
It&#039;s still going to take centuries for nature to clear out the CO2 we&#039;ve dumped into the atmosphere already. Gonna be warm, and stay warm, long after we&#039;re gone.
And the Koch Bros. pulling the levers behind the curtain. Speaking ill of whom, have you seen the <a href="http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/struggling-with-urban-decay-detroit-now-has-a-mountain-of-unwanted-coke--thanks-to-antienvironmentalist-koch-brothers-8622866.html" target="_blank">gigantic pile of black crap</a> they&#039;ve dumped by the Detroit River?
Part of the Fujita scale involves measuring the damage on the ground. (The smaller the pieces, and the further they fly, the higher the score.) If there&#039;s a clean concrete slab where your house used to be, that was an F5.
All storms get their energy from heat. Hurricanes, tornadoes, even thunderstorms. The American midwest is measurably hotter than it used to be, and getting warmer every year . . . feel free to connect the dots.
Native Americans didn&#039;t see many tornadoes, actually. There&#039;s no question we&#039;re seeing a shitload more today: <a href="http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/efscale\/torn5004.jpg" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/torn5004.jpg">http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efs... Makes you wonder what it&#039;s going to be like 50 years from now, doesn&#039;t it?
Republicans, that&#039;s how.
NY and NJ are requiring new construction on the coasts to be elevated something like 8 feet above high tide. This is of course an outrageous infringement of whiny teabaggers&#039; Constitutional right to die in a storm (or suck a wad of disaster relief money out of the government if they survive.)
But fuck them: we are a liberal nanny state and we will protect them from their own stupidity whether they want us to or not.
A di&oacute;s, Ray Manzarek. Your music provided much enjoyment.
I think its OkieDokieDog, and I&#039;ve seen both him/her and DustyBowlBlues within the last couple weeks.
Yeah, me too. Neither of them comments very frequently in recent days, but hopefully they&#039;ll drop us a line.
/waitingfortheearthquake
He failed to use CCOIP -- Counter-cyclone over Internet Protocol.
That reminds me, hasn&#039;t anyone blamed HAARP for the twister yet?
Yeah. I&#039;m thinking the offsetting cuts should come from defense industry in OK.
I&#039;d raise an even more short-range point. How can you have public schools in major tornado country without storm shelters?