Biden suggested that Tornado is a term nobody uses (must be racist) and also suggested that Kentucky suffered from a hurricane
BIDEN: “Looks like a tornado, they don’t call them that anymore.”
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 7, 2021
This is what happens when Biden doesn’t have a teleprompter.pic.twitter.com/HlQyyGbbRR
Biden seems to think there was a hurricane in Kentucky last night pic.twitter.com/wcaQiy3mmV
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 12, 2021
Well this is what we need to make people in the Midwest feel better. Knowing that their entire fate rests in the hands of someone who believes that Tornado is a politically incorrect term and that Kentucky can see hurricanes? That would be one hell of a storm to make that far inland, and I doubt if that happened that we would be worried about Kentucky.
How long does it take till the stubborn 40% agree that this guy is a complete disaster?
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You are a scientist denyer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states.
Tornadoes in December are unusual, but not unheard of. B ut the ferocity and path length of Friday night's tornadoes likely put them in a category of their own, meteorologists say. One of the twisters — if it is confirmed to have been just one — likely broke a nearly 100-year-old record for how long a tornado stayed on the ground in a path of destruction, experts said.
“One word: remarkable; unbelievable would be another,” s aid Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini. “It was really a late spring type of setup in in the middle of December.”
Warm weather was a crucial ingredient in this tornado outbreak, but whether climate change is a factor is not quite as clear, meteorologists say.
Scientists say figuring out how climate change is affecting the frequency of tornadoes is complicated and their understanding is still evolving. But they do say the atmospheric conditions that give rise to such outbreaks are intensifying in the winter as the planet warms. And tornado alley is shifting farther east away from the Kansas-Oklahoma area and into states where Friday's killers hit.
Here's a look at what's known about Friday's tornado outbreak and the role of climate change in such weather events.
WHAT CAUSES A TORNADO?
Tornadoes are whirling, vertical air columns that form from thunderstorms and stretch to the ground. They travel with ferocious speed and lay waste to everything in their path.
Thunderstorms occur when denser, drier cold air is pushed over warmer, humid air, conditions scientists call atmospheric instability. As that happens, an updraft is created when the warm air rises. When winds vary in speed or direction at different altitudes — a condition known as wind shear — the updraft will start to spin.
These changes in winds produce the spin necessary for a tornado. For especially strong tornadoes, changes are needed in both the wind’s speed and direction.
“When considerable variation in wind is found over the lowest few thousand feet of the atmosphere, tornado-producing ‘supercell thunderstorms’ are possible,” said Paul Markowski, professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. “That’s what we had yesterday.”
There's usually a lot of wind shear in the winter because of the big difference in temperature and air pressure between the equator and the Arctic, Gensini said.
But usually, there's not a lot of instability in the winter that's needed for tornadoes because the air isn't as warm and humid, Gensini said. This time there was.
WHAT CONDITIONS LED TO STORMS OF THIS SCALE?
A few factors, which meteorologists will continue to study.
Spring-like temperatures across much of the Midwest and South in December helped bring the warm, moist air that helped form thunderstorms. Some of this is due to La Nina, which generally brings warmer than normal winter temperatures to the Southern U.S. But scientists also expect atypical, warm weather in the winter to become more common as the planet warms.
“The worst-case scenario happened. Warm air in the cold season, middle of the night,” said John Gordon, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Louisville, Kentucky.
Once the storm formed, exceptionally strong wind shear appears to have prevented the tornadoes from dissipating, experts say. Tornadoes are thought to die off when thunderstorm updrafts lose energy.
Tornadoes typically lose energy in a matter of minutes, but in this case it was hours, Gensini said. That’s partly the reason for the exceptionally long path of Friday's storm, going more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) or so, he said. The record was 219 miles (352 kilometers) and was set by a tornado that struck three states in 1925. Gensini thinks this one will surpass it once meteorologists finish analyzing it.
“In order to get a really long path length, you have to have a really fast moving storm. This storm was moving well over 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour for a majority of its life,” Gensini said. That's not the speed of the winds, but of the overall storm movement.
“You’re talking about highway-speed storm motions,” Gensini said.
HOW RELATED IS CLIMATE CHANGE TO TORNADO OUTBREAKS?
It’s complicated. Scientists are still trying to sort out the many conflicting factors about whether human-caused climate change is making tornadoes more common — or even more intense. About 1,200 twisters hit the U.S. each year — though that figure can vary — according to the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. No other country sees as many.
Attributing a specific storm like Friday's to the effects of climate change remains very challenging. Less than 10% of severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, which makes drawing conclusions about climate change and the processes leading up to them tricky, said Harold Brooks, a tornado scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Scientists have observed changes taking place to the basic ingredients of a thunderstorm, however, as the planet warms. Gensini says in the aggregate, extreme storms are “becoming more common because we have a lot warmer air masses in the cool season that can support these types of severe weather outbreaks.”
The U.S. is likely to see more tornadoes occur in the winter, Brooks said, as national temperatures rise above the long-term average. Fewer events will take place in the summer, he said.
Furtado of the University of Oklahoma said tornado alley, a term used to describe where many twisters hit the U.S., has shifted eastward into the Mississippi River Valley. That shift is because of increases in temperature, moisture and shear.
“Bottom line: The people in the Mississippi River Valley and Ohio River Valley are becoming increasingly vulnerable to more tornadic activity with time,” he said.
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This story corrects that the 1925 tornado affected three states, not four.
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Is As reliable as you aged and Tucker Carlson told you every day Scott...
They very carefully edited the video.
In 1966, a Japanese American predicted climate changes.
Manabe eventually secured a post at Princeton, where he lives today. Last week, at the age of ninety, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize committee cited Manabe’s 1966 simulation as the first reliable prediction of climate change. The simulation included a plot of points representing the sensitivity of Earth’s temperature to carbon dioxide at different altitudes. The printer didn’t have the capability to fit a curve to the data, so, for the final step, Manabe had to draw it in himself. “I used a pencil,” he said. “It took a long time.”
Manabe was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.Photograph from Kyodo / AP
Manabe’s pencil-line graph revealed three unexpected results. First, according to the simulation, boosting carbon dioxide from three parts per ten thousand to six could cause Earth’s average surface temperature to rise by more than four degrees Fahrenheit. A comparable temperature increase at the end of the last Ice Age had caused ocean levels to rise a hundred feet.
Second, Manabe’s simulation predicted that carbon dioxide would trap heat energy in the lower atmosphere. The Earth’s surface and its oceans would therefore get hotter, while the upper atmosphere would cool. This combination—cooler above, hotter below—is now regarded by climatologists as the smoking gun of human-caused climate change. (Other potential causes of global warming, like the sun growing brighter, would uniformly heat the atmosphere at every altitude.)
An Antiwar Activist Couple Who Shaped History
Finally, Manabe’s model implied that, as the upper atmosphere cooled, it would deform, causing atmospheric boundaries to pancake. The 1966 pencil-line graph was the first preview of the Earth’s future: the surface was going to cook, and the sky was going to collapse.
Syukuro Manabe was born in September, 1931, on the island of Shikoku, south of the main island of Honshu. His family lived in an isolated mountain hamlet, where his father was the village doctor. On the day Manabe turned three, the Muroto typhoon, then the deadliest storm in Japan’s history, made landfall on Shikoku, destroying thirty thousand homes and leaving three thousand people dead. Powerful cyclones captivated Manabe as a child. “I had a horrible memory and I was clumsy with my hands,” he told a Japanese newspaper. “My only good trait was to gaze at the sky.”
When Manabe was ten, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. In 1944, when he was thirteen, U.S. forces launched one of the largest bombing campaigns in history against mainland Japan. Shikoku was not a target, but bombing convoys would fly over the island on their way to Honshu. While his fellow-students hid out in bomb shelters, Manabe studied for his exams. “Fortunately the airplanes just passed over us, because we’re in the countryside in middle school,” he told an oral historian. Across the channel from Shikoku sat Hiroshima; one of the planes that flew over the island was the Enola Gay.
He was there on December 7th in 1941
You will call him a traitor.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/the-man-who-predicted-climate-change
In the early nineteen-seventies, now using an exponentially more powerful computer, Manabe ran the numbers again. The second simulation included equations modelling the effects of snow cover and the exchange of water between the ocean and the clouds. Manabe’s 1975 paper “The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the Climate of a General Circulation Model,” which he wrote with the meteorologist Richard Wetherald, once again predicted that the combustion of fossil fuels would lead to a rise in the Earth’s mean temperature of four degrees Fahrenheit.
Ronald Stouffer, an affable meteorologist who’d originally intended to be a TV weatherman, joined Manabe’s group at Princeton in 1977. Stouffer recalled that the group was collegial and informal—everyone called Manabe “Suki.” Manabe himself was enthusiastic and kind, and encouraged the researchers to challenge received ideas. “He also worked fourteen hours a day,” Stouffer said. Stouffer told me that, by the time he arrived, Manabe was convinced that anthropogenic global warming was real. “I think Suki knew it was real when he wrote his 1967 paper,” Stouffer said.
Manabe’s computer models were streamlined and elegant, with concepts represented simply. “There are many people who want to bring in the full complexity of the climate system,” Tom Delworth, another researcher who worked with Manabe, said. “But that creates possible interactions among components, and it becomes hard to really understand what’s going on.” Delworth told me that Manabe was a fan of the Princeton men’s basketball team—especially its longtime coach, Pete Carril, who developed the “Princeton Offense,” and led the school to thirteen Ivy League championships. “That offense consists of very simple but extremely efficient movements, repeated to perfection,” Delworth said. “I think Manabe liked that style, whether it was basketball or science.”
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Manabe’s research prompted other scientific groups to run their own simulations. Most reached similar conclusions. By 1979, a consensus had formed among climatologists that the Earth was going to heat up. The temperature record, at the time, didn’t show concrete evidence of climate change, but the increasingly sophisticated computer simulations had won the climatologists’ trust. Manabe’s mathematical technique for showing how light responded to carbon dioxide was represented in every model. “Some of that code, from the early sixties—I’m still using it,” Stouffer told me.
In 1988, a prolonged drought in the western United States prompted congressional hearings about the possibility of climate change. Manabe testified, but he was mostly ignored. “My testimony, with this lousy Japanese accent,” he said. “I just had a terrible impact.” James Hansen, a researcher at nasa, testified the same day, captivating Congress and the public with his dire predictions of the effects of global warming. “Jim did a beautiful job communicating,” Manabe said, “which I don’t have any talent for.”
There was more than just a language barrier. Manabe, by all accounts, preferred scientific work to public advocacy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change first convened the same year that Manabe gave his congressional testimony. “He didn’t want to go to the meetings,” Stouffer told me. “So he sent me instead.” In interviews in the nineties, Manabe was non-committal about pressuring countries to reduce fossil-fuel consumption. “My personal feeling is, O.K., now if CO2 really quadruples by business as usual, then climate change is so large I think it approaches the days of the Cretaceous period,” he said, in 1998. “But, even then, maybe the human race can adapt to the environment.”
I read everything very quickly and again understand science without biases
Biden suggested that Tornado is a term nobody uses (must be racist) and also suggested that Kentucky suffered from a hurricane
WITHOUT A DOUBT....THAT IS THE FUCKING DUMBEST THING LIL SCHITTY HAS EVER POSTED.....I suggest he needs to reexamine his mental condition because it is obvious he does not have enough blood to run 2 heads at the same time and his child bride!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Seems to me, trumps popularity stops when tickets cost $138 to listen to his drivel!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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Despite a Saturday evening statement promising “big crowds,” the first date of ex-president Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly’s joint speaking tour seemingly failed to draw any such thing.
“Many seats remained empty in the cavernous arena,” The Sun Sentinel reported. “The top-level was closed, and ticket buyers were ‘upgraded’ to the lower bowl.” Even with the upgrades for some attendees, there were still a substantial amount of vacant floor-level seats.
While it remains unclear exactly how many MAGA loyalists turned out for night one of The History Tour, the Sun-Sentinel noted that “thousands” of attendees rolled up to the festivities sporting “red baseball caps” and their “favorite Donald Trump T-shirts.”
The kickoff event, headlined by Trump and disgraced Fox News host O’Reilly, took place at the FLA Live Arena, home of the Florida Panthers NHL team, where tickets went for at least $138 after fees.
Shortly after tickets became available for the five speaking engagements, Politico reported in June that the events were not selling as fast as expected, especially in comparison to other events scheduled at the same arenas. At the time, O’Reilly responded by threatening the Politico reporter: “You put one word in there that’s not true, I’ll sue your ass off and you can quote me on that. You’re just a hatchet man and that’s what you are,” he said.
How long does it take till the stubborn 40% agree that this guy is a complete disaster?
How long will it take for the 70% of R's to admit trump got his fat ass kicked and is not president anymore.....BTW....that question is directed at the esteemed host of the POS blog, Lil Schittty!!!!!!
I read everything very quickly and again understand science without biases
Then go read the Georgia voting law quickly and tell us all how it is racist and designed to prevent minority turnout!
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