THE MORNING RANT: Despite Apocalyptic Predictions, It’s a Quiet “Peak Hurricane” Season with <i>Cooling</i> Ocean Temperatures

THE MORNING RANT: Despite Apocalyptic Predictions, It’s a Quiet “Peak Hurricane” Season with Cooling Ocean Temperatures

It is very late August, we are at the peak of Hurricane Season, and the Atlantic is devoid of any tropical activity. A quick look at NOAA’s Seven-Day Tropical Weather Outlook map shows not even a disturbance between Texas and Africa, and less than a 40% chance that something will develop by early September.

As a quick reminder, the corrupted “scientific” doomsayers predicted this to be an unprecedented hurricane season, with near-constant storms reaching a record total, and a huge percentage of them catastrophically destructive. Something that was repeated in doom story after doom story was there being “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters,” due to your sinful, carbon-addicted lifestyle, which is causing the oceans to boil.

To repeat, it was a scientific fact according to the most celebrated “climate experts” that we were in grave peril from hurricanes in 2024 due to “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters.” I’m repeating this because as it turned out, the Atlantic Ocean water temperatures have plunged this summer, in spite of the brilliance of the climate scientists who claim the ability to precisely predict air and ocean temperatures out decades in the future.

First off, here are a few headlines from the past few months as the hyperbole built for this horror-movie hurricane season, as well as a few quotes from these stories about the impending hurricane apocalypse.

“The 2024 NOAA hurricane season forecast is unlike any other; Other hurricane outlooks have predicted a dangerous year, thanks to La Niña and record warm Atlantic ocean water.” [USA Today – 5/23/2024]

Of note, a La Niña is a situation in which there is below-normal equatorial water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

The start of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is just over a week away, and federal forecasters Thursday predicted an "extraordinary" season with as many as 25 named storms possible. This is the most storms the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has ever predicted in a preseason outlook.

Michael Mann, the famed “climate expert” of hockey-stick fame, went even further, predicting a whopping 33 named tropical storms this year.

“Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected.” [Penn Today]

{Mann’s team] forecast an unprecedented 33 named tropical cyclones, potentially ranging between 27 and 39. “We’ve seen many hyperactive seasons over the past decade, and in just about all cases, like our prediction for this year, the activity is substantially driven by ever-warmer conditions in the tropical Atlantic tied to large-scale warming,” says Mann.

When a “rare” July hurricane* entered the Caribbean and then “slammed” into Texas as a weak Category 1 hurricane, the media somehow went into an even greater degree of hysteria.

(*There have been 26 prior July hurricanes that have hit the US mainland since 1850, but this one, number 27, somehow was proof positive that the angry climate God was now seeking retribution against us carbon sinners.)

“Beryl set the tone for a "hyperactive" 2024 hurricane season, new forecast indicates” [CBS News – 7/09/2024]

"Extremely warm sea surface temperatures provide a much more conducive dynamic and thermodynamic environment for hurricane formation and intensification," the [Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science] said in an online post. The department also described Hurricane Beryl as "a likely harbinger of a hyperactive season."

Hurricane season starts on June 1 every year, but one hurricane in July caused the climate community to lose its mind and start quoting from the Book of Climate Revelations.

“'An early and violent start': NOAA issues dire hurricane season forecast” [USA Today – 8/08/2024]

But something happened, or maybe I should say didn’t happen. The seas calmed, and as we hit the peak of hurricane season in late August, the tropical Atlantic has completely shut down the production of tropical storms. The climate prophets were wrong again.

So what happened? The answer is that the Atlantic Ocean cooled off this summer. Literally.

“'The tropics are broken:' So where are all the Atlantic hurricanes?” [USA Today – 8/26/2024]

The 2024 hurricane season is not going as predicted – yet.
"It is quiet out there," Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach told USA TODAY on Monday. "I certainly wasn't expecting this when we put out our most recent seasonal forecast.

This was supposed to be a record year for hurricanes. Well, it is in a way – it’s record quiet.

Klotzbach said that if we look at named storms (tropical storms, subtropical storms and hurricanes), the last time that we went from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2 with no named storm activity in the Atlantic was 1997.

The Atlantic is record quiet because of cold water that prevents the development of tropical storms.

"The Atlantic tropics are broken – for now," meteorologist Ryan Maue posted on X Sunday, adding that developing storms near Africa are encountering at least one problem: "Ocean temperatures at this latitude are way too cool to sustain a rain shower."

The Washington Post just published an unintentionally hilarious piece about this year’s failed hurricane prognosis. It reads like the climate version of a coach’s halftime speech as he tries to rally the team to believe that even though they’re losing 24-0, they are absolutely positioned for the victory he promised.

“Why hurricane season is suddenly quiet — and what’s in store: After early-season Atlantic storms, activity has been slow to resume” [Washington Post – 8/28/2024]

Key ingredients are in place for an active final few months of hurricane season, which officially ends Nov. 30. La Niña, known to encourage busy Atlantic hurricane seasons, is forecast to arrive before then, and there are signs it is developing quickly.
“We are due for at least one or two more bursts of activity, easily,” [NOAA hurricane forecaster Matthew] Rosencrans said. “This lull is not that the season is done.”

So how do the Atlantic waters cool off during the worst heat of summer? It is a phenomenon that is understood by actual scientists, and while it does not portend “global cooling,” it does refute the nonsense of the climate apocalysts.

“Party Over for Alarmists as Sea Temperatures Plunge Around the World” [Daily Sceptic – 8/28/2024]

It is not unusual for waters in these parts of the Atlantic to cool in the summer months as seasonal southern winds drag surface waters away from the equator and expose deeper colder water. The process is called ‘upwelling’, but this year it coincided with a weakening of the trade winds which should have led to warmer anomalies.

This has the propagandists at NOAA flummoxed, because they wrote a program with a pre-determined outcome that concludes with “record warm waters,” but they didn’t take into account upwelling.

In fact, scientists have little idea how a great deal of weather suddenly changes and how the sea and atmosphere warms and cools. Over 100 super-computer models are simply not up to the job of explaining natural variation in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere. The fact that some scientists are perplexed when temperatures go down, but full of fear-mongering explanations when they go up, says it all.

One more related item… Even though the entire Atlantic basin is bereft of storms right now, up until the introduction of satellites into meteorology a few decades ago, there was no way to even know if there were storms out in the open ocean with sustained winds that warranted being “named.”

Dr. Neil Frank, an actual scientist who is not profiting from the climate grift, is also the former head of the National Hurricane Center. In the video further below from a Heartland Institute climate conference, he uses these two maps to show the named storms that occurred in two very busy hurricane seasons – 1933 and 2005. The black line represents the eastern extent of reconnaissance aircraft prior to the satellite era.

In 1933 there were 21 named storms, none of which were in the Eastern Atlantic.

In 2005, there were 7 storms that formed in the Eastern Atlantic and never moved into the Western Atlantic. They would have never been identified as named storms in prior eras. Naturally, when you are finding storms where you didn’t formerly look, you’re going to find more of them, hence we have more named storms in the modern era.

Have a blessed Labor Day weekend. The good news is that whatever beach you might be heading to, you won’t have to worry about hurricanes.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 This is probably cheating, but *first*!

Posted by: Nazdar at August 29, 2024 08:34 PM (9XWKq)

2 Nooding has been taken care of.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 30, 2024 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

3 As a quick reminder, the corrupted “scientific” doomsayers predicted this to be an unprecedented hurricane season, with near-constant storms reaching a record total, and a huge percentage of them catastrophically destructive. Something that was repeated in doom story after doom story was there being “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters,” due to your sinful, carbon-addicted lifestyle, which is causing the oceans to boil.

To repeat, it was a scientific fact according to the most celebrated “climate experts” that we were in grave peril from hurricanes in 2024 due to “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters.” I’m repeating this because as it turned out, the Atlantic Ocean water temperatures have plunged this summer, in spite of the brilliance of the climate scientists who claim the ability to precisely predict air and ocean temperatures out decades in the future.

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The first hurricane, a Cat 5 that mostly hit Texas, was proof that we needed a carbon tax.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

4 but see, a quiet hurricane season is ALSO a sign of climate change

Posted by: brak at August 30, 2024 11:01 AM (NGHTx)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

6 well, if they didn't CLAIM everything that has a slightly circular motion as a tropical system, i'd wager the numbers would be 1/3 of what they are....

but then that doesn't fit the narrative or sell ad space...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 30, 2024 11:01 AM (v6XNT)

7 "It is quiet out there," Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach told USA TODAY on Monday. "I certainly wasn't expecting this when we put out our most recent seasonal forecast.

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But we should still believe you, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

8 Good news...now how can we spin it to portend disaster?

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2024 11:02 AM (AwYPR)

9 We were all f*cked the moment they decided that weather was entertainment.

"WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!" became the norm for every storm ever developed.

They name snow and thunder storms now.......

They've made themselves a joke that most don't take seriously anymore.

F*ck them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

10 If we don't ban all uses of fossil fuels and kill 6.8B people NYC will be buried under 700 miles of ice by next Tuesday! -- Experts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (IUd0M)

11 10 If we don't ban all uses of fossil fuels and kill 6.8B people NYC will be buried under 700 miles of ice by next Tuesday! -- Experts
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (IUd0M)

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"We never said that."
-C'ing U Next Tuesday

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

12 Mann need to just move.to Seattle and be a weatherman there. Predict rain every day. He will then at least be right half the time.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

13 It is not unusual for waters in these parts of the Atlantic to cool in the summer months as seasonal southern winds drag surface waters away from the equator and expose deeper colder water. The process is called ‘upwelling’, but this year it coincided with a weakening of the trade winds which should have led to warmer anomalies.

Lakes turn over.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Everything we just said is bullshit.

Posted by: The Experts at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (vFG9F)

15 They're pushing the Japan storms now instead.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (CEzQx)

16 Having worked for NOAA I can, with some level of certainty say this is all horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

17 Global Warming is kicking my ass here in Northern NJ.

It is the coolest summer I can remember.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (d9fT1)

18 I think there was a La Nina, or maybe El Nino, in 1997, and the weather mavens predicted a truly vicious and snowy winter for Denver. A friend of mine there went out and traded his early-'90s Chrysler convertible for an SUV . . a compact Kia.

Denver collected no more snow than usual. He found the Kia to be unpleasant and tinny to drive, and unreliable too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

19 How are people who are always wrong entitled to be called experts?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (FfSAJ)

20 anyone who grew up in Houston remembers Dr. Neil Frank as the go-to weather guy -- still alive at 92

Posted by: brak at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (NGHTx)

21 We could use a good hurricane. It's pretty dry here, 150 miles from the coast.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (vFG9F)

22 But there are potential hurricanes out there!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (VdhcA)

23 It is the coolest summer I can remember.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Well, you do have a weather machine...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

24 The only hurricane I'm seeing is in Kamala's panties, and it's pretty grim.

Gird your loins!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (XGL1u)

25 Hurricane season starts on June 1 every year, but one hurricane in July caused the climate community to lose its mind and start quoting from the Book of Climate Revelations.

From a recent Ted talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6hI423gcw

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

26 Texas could use a hurricane about now, it is getting parched.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)

27 Week of hell mouth forecast for area, 101-107° mon to thurs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (GZPuW)

28 Because of that little yellow area on the map, my local ABC station here in Pensacola ran with a "the tropics are waking up" scare headline.

https://tinyurl.com/ycxppbj8

Posted by: one hour sober at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)

29 Just to be safe, let's cut out the hearts of environmentalists and throw them into the ocean. It's SCIENCE!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (NR6c1)

30 Good morning!
I'd like to know where the very unscientific notion that the climate should be static comes from.
The climate isn't static, and it never has been.
The entire conversation is a ruse to give a select group of puny mortals control over the rest of us puny mortals.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (MeG8a)

31 The only hurricane I'm seeing is in Kamala's panties, and it's pretty grim.

Gird your loins!

Why does everyone always want me to grid my lions. They're not intended to be linear.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (xCA6C)

32 The only hurricane I'm seeing is in Kamala's panties, and it's pretty grim.

Gird your loins!Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (XGL1u)

might be a haboob

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (AwYPR)

33 It's too quiet
Oh well next year will be the worst hurricane season, or maybe the year after that

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (Ep5Oo)

34 Climate Change causes more hurricanes, BUT it also causes fewer hurricanes. Stop being climate deniers.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (Cus5s)

35 It is the coolest summer I can remember.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Apart from a hot spell around July 4, it's been a pretty cool summer in the Willamette Valley. August has been mostly cloudy. Gonna warm up this weekend, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (VdhcA)

36 Over 100 super-computer models are simply not up to the job of explaining natural variation in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere.

This is because all of the people running these models are corrupt. They seek models which will say what their paymasters want them to say rather than what is even moderately more likely to occur than not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (IUd0M)

37 NO REFUNDS!!!

Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Carbon Credit Empire at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (WBQfF)

38 I'm hoping for no hurricanes, and that this will be the last year I have to worry about such things.

There are still people living in FEMA trailers in the state, three years after Hurricane Ida. Seems to me I remember there were still "displaced" people in similar trailers for three or four years after Katrina hit, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

39 Well, you do have a weather machine...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

Sefton has been hogging it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (d9fT1)

40 Just to be safe, let's cut out the hearts of environmentalists and throw them into the ocean. It's SCIENCE!

Now that's some out of the box thinking, right there. We should get right on it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:09 AM (xCA6C)

41 "Maybe too quiet."

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 11:09 AM (CEzQx)

42
I always looked forward to late August and September ocean water temperatures in New Jersey. Not this year. They look to be about ten degrees less then usual for this time of year.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:09 AM (RKVpM)

43 The only hurricane I'm seeing is in Kamala's panties, and it's pretty grim.

Gird your loins!Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (XGL1u)

might be a haboob
Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (AwYPR)
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These days, probably more like a simoom.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:09 AM (VdhcA)

44 anyone who grew up in Houston remembers Dr. Neil Frank as the go-to weather guy -- still alive at 92
Posted by: brak at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (NGHTx)

I miss Dr. Neil so much! Frank Billingsley retired one week before Beryl hit here and I miss him, too.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (k9OZB)

45 Yesterday was the 19th anniversary of Katrina, The Storm That Changed Everything. Next year the wailing and hand-wringing will be epic and will probably start in May. Gawd help us all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (J2vNu)

46 Texas could use a hurricane about now, it is getting parched.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)

Storms are expected with over 50% chance or rain most of next week with the approaching cold front.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

47 Lakes turn over.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

So do islands. -- Hank Johnson

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (IUd0M)

48 The only person I listen to regarding hurricanes and tropical storms, is Dr. Chuck Watson (here in Savannah) with Enki Research.

He just gave his weekly forecast this morning about the "yellow blobs of doom" in the Atlantic.

The blog is called "You're doomed: here's why."

😀😀

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (IcuR4)

49 Well, you do have a weather machine...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

Sefton has been hogging it.

*considers making greedy Joo joke, thinks better of it*

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (xCA6C)

50 Thx Buck. I wonder if any scientists have loot at the effect of the Tonga volcano on these weather patterns. It blew up underwater in 1/22 and about six months later NASA said it increased the water vapor in the stratosphere by 10-12 percent while the EU space layer said 14-15% increase. That has got to have some effect.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (ByB3C)

51 36 Over 100 super-computer models are simply not up to the job of explaining natural variation in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere.

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It's impossible to track the moment when every butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:10 AM (WBQfF)

52 To repeat, it was a scientific fact according to the most celebrated “climate experts” that we were in grave peril from hurricanes in 2024 due to “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters.”

Climate change has evolved to the point where it's completely unpredictable! This is a catastrophe! In fact, perhaps it has become sentient, and this is a cunning deception plan! We MUST increase climate research funding and reduce global CO2 emissions to pre-Neolithic levels!!!

Posted by: Hyperventilating Green Activist at August 30, 2024 11:11 AM (JCZqz)

53 I'm still waiting for these 'experts' to acknowledge the sun's ~11 year cycle has an influence on the weather.

It's like only people, civilization has any effect on it.

Which makes about as much sense as saying the ants in my gravel driveway affect my ability to drive my truck down it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

54 Well, you do have a weather machine...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

Sefton has been hogging it.

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Sefton's got his own problems. I'll allow it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (VdhcA)

55 This good news will surely turn doom-and-gloom alarmists into joyful, happy people with hope for the future.
I mean, if I had a terminal disease and was told that it had spontaneously gone into remission, or even reversed, I'd be absolutely elated.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (TL7UX)

56 The lack of storms will also be blamed on "climate change."

As I've heard it said, "If you torture data enough, it will confess to anything."

Posted by: Halfhand at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (/jMds)

57 They look to be about ten degrees less then usual for this time of year.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:09 AM (RKVpM)

It's 69 degrees here, with an expected high of 73 degrees.

In late August? I do not remember it being this cool for this long...ever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (d9fT1)

58 How are people who are always wrong entitled to be called experts?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 30, 2024 11:05 AM (FfSAJ)
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That's their expertise--being wrong more often than the rest of us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (7fElN)

59 Probably just Mother Gaia (PBUH) lulling us into a false sense of security before uncorking the REAL action right around Thanksgiving.

Posted by: thedregs at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (vOsjD)

60 Debby dropped a ton of rain, and my son's neighborhood was severely flooded. Thankfully, his cul de sac is at the highest spot in the neighborhood, and the water didn't make it up his driveway into the house. But he had catfish swimming in the street and his neighbor killed three water moccasins.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (IcuR4)

61 Remember global warming is going to make sea levels suddenly rise and flood our coast lines by 10s of meter if we don't take YOUR car away right now. This isn't in the far future either...we only have 12 years to save the planet!

...says the guy taking a private plane to his just bought beachfront home.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (oZhjI)

62 It's 69 degrees here, with an expected high of 73 degrees.

In late August? I do not remember it being this cool...ever.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (d9fT1)

Global Warming caused polar hurricanes freezing everything are on their way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

63
You're Welcome.

Posted by: Biden's Environmental Policies at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (+oR7L)

64 Any idiot could have told you the seas were cooling. Just stick your head out the fucking window. The weather here (Manhattan) has been one of the mildest summers I can remember. Rarely got above 90, only a few days of 95+, and I don't think it ever got to 100.

Humidity did seem to be a little higher than usual, but it's tough to judge that in Manhattan. The tall buildings, glass everywhere, and hard ground surfaces hold the heat and humidity. It's usually 2-3 degrees hotter here than out in the suburbs.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

65 Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (IcuR4)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Has anyone factored in the impact on climate of polar bears swimming in the Arctic and causing upwelling? No, I thought not. Amateurs.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (xCA6C)

67 Who you gonna believe, a 100 super-computer models or your lying eyes?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

68 Michael Mann... went even further, predicting a whopping 33 named tropical storms this year.

This proves how rapidly the global weather situation has deteriorated because there used to be ZERO 'named' tropical storms! And we haven't even begun to redefine 'tropical storm'!

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (B46kE)

69 In the 1960s there was this book called The Population Bomb. It predicted apocalyptic disaster for mankind from starvation by the 1980's.

That obviously didn't happen. So the author of that crackpot book, Paul Ehrlich, looked around for another apocalyptic disaster he could use to scare people. What he came up with was "Man made Global Warming". It was a crackpot theory from a discredited crackpot. It remains so, despite the people making money, and hoping to put everyone into mud huts, eating bugs.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (Da7Vv)

70 Sponge {{{hugs to you and your wife}}}

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (IcuR4)

71 Has anyone factored in the impact on climate of polar bears swimming in the Arctic and causing upwelling? No, I thought not. Amateurs.
Posted by: Archimedes

I thought they all went extinct?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

72 “The climate crisis is real that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”

She actually said that, on purpose.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (cnVbw)

73
The problem is you people aren't paying enough in taxes and the govmint has to use last years technology instead of current.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:15 AM (RKVpM)

74 Sponge {{{hugs to you and your wife}}}
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (IcuR4)

Thanks.

She's actually out on her post-treatment steroid hyperactivity phase doing some grocery shopping at the moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Has anyone factored in the impact on climate of polar bears swimming in the Arctic and causing upwelling? No, I thought not. Amateurs.
Posted by: Archimedes

I thought they all went extinct?

That's just what Big Penguin wants you to think.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:15 AM (xCA6C)

76 I predict it'll be an early fall for the mid-west. Here in Kentucky the leaves are already starting to change. Even though it's been in the mid-to-upper 90's all week.

People who take note of nature, and how it behaves know when the weather will change and what sort of season it's going to be. Some of the oldsters around here will tell you, and they're mostly correct.

And they're never considered 'experts.'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

77 Texas could use a hurricane about now, it is getting parched.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)

Finally raining again in Houston. Rained three times yesterday. Most we've had for weeks.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (s9EYN)

78 I miss Dr. Neil so much! Frank Billingsley retired one week before Beryl hit here and I miss him, too.

I used to get my free hurricane chart from Randalls every year and chart them out watching Dr. Neil on the local news as a kid

Posted by: brak at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (NGHTx)

79 69 In the 1960s there was this book called The Population Bomb. It predicted apocalyptic disaster for mankind from starvation by the 1980's.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (Da7Vv)

Erlich has been consistently wrong about everything for his entire career. But he says what liberals want to hear, so they worship him and take his words as gospel truth.

#PartyOfScience.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (TL7UX)

80 69 In the 1960s there was this book called The Population Bomb. It predicted apocalyptic disaster for mankind from starvation by the 1980's.

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Dr. Paul Ehrlich. He once held the award for The Wrongest Man in Science for 10 years running, but then the competition just became too intense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (WBQfF)

81 The whining and fear-mongering are an entire industry now. When Hurricane Betsy hit in 1965, it was the first day of public school . . . and the city not only did NOT close the schools, they kept them *open* until the usual final bell, 3:15 at my jr. high. It had been raining like the hammers of hell since 1:30. My mother met me at the bus stop with an umbrella, the only time she ever did that.

Nowadays they'd have kept the school closed, or sent everybody home at noon. Nobody took a storm that seriously in '65, I guess. In any case we had the power back on within ten days. After Katrina, forty years later, it took weeks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (J2vNu)

82 The problem is you people aren't paying enough in taxes and the govmint has to use last years technology instead of current.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:15 AM (RKVpM)

It is quite amazing that any and all environment saving change mandated by government only grows government and stifles the citizen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

83 Colder water temperatures is going to cause a shrinkage crisis. Why won’t anyone think of the shrinkage?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 11:16 AM (cnVbw)

84 At least Stanley Pons admitted he was wrong.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (WBQfF)

85 Time is a thing that can be measured with a clock. It's always changing and we can't predict what it will do or where it's going.

--- Kamala Harris, probably

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (IcuR4)

86 In the 1960s there was this book called The Population Bomb. It predicted apocalyptic disaster for mankind from starvation by the 1980's

A funny side note on this. The left will tell you the world is overpopulated, still, and that people are using too many resources, still...and then tell you we have to bring 50-100M people from third world countries where they use fewer resources here where they will use more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (oZhjI)

87 86 A funny side note on this. The left will tell you the world is overpopulated, still, and that people are using too many resources, still...and then tell you we have to bring 50-100M people from third world countries where they use fewer resources here where they will use more.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (oZhjI)

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"A LOT of brown people are going to have to die to get us down to manageable levels since they are the majority of the overall population of the planet."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

88 "Sefton has been hogging it."

The just borrow Ace's time-machine, that he totally doesn't have, go back in time and take it from Sefton.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (a1415)

89 >>>The only hurricane I'm seeing is in Kamala's panties, and it's pretty grim.

Gird your loins!Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 11:06 AM (XGL1u)

might be a haboob
Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (AwYPR)
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These days, probably more like a simoom.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

>A dusty snapper is no laughing matter. We must embrace a change in empathy and humidity.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (XGL1u)

90
Humidity did seem to be a little higher than usual, but it's tough to judge that in Manhattan. The tall buildings, glass everywhere, and hard ground surfaces hold the heat and humidity. It's usually 2-3 degrees hotter here than out in the suburbs.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM

I usually listen to a Philly news radio station and I automagically deduct three degrees from their projected temperature. I live just twenty odd miles away from the vote thieves.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (RKVpM)

91 The climate crisis is real that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”

She actually said that, on purpose.

If you listen to her saying it, it's not as bad as it sounds in the text. She was putting a series of propositions forward.
1) The climate crisis is real
2) that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics
3) that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.

Now, holding yourself to a deadline around time is gibberish, since that's what a deadline is, but fair is fair.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)

92 Having worked for NOAA I can, with some level of certainty say this is all horseshit.

Which "this" do you mean?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (/y8xj)

93 10 If we don't ban all uses of fossil fuels and kill 6.8B people NYC will be buried under 700 miles of ice by next Tuesday! -- Experts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (IUd0M)
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Tuesday you say? So we till get Labor Day on Monday and can go to the beach?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, la democrazia non e pratica #28 at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (qfLjt)

94 And they're never considered 'experts.'
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Unless they're Native Americans being bribed to say it's the hottest summer they've ever known, from oral tradition!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (CEzQx)

95
It is quite amazing that any and all environment saving change mandated by government only grows government and stifles the citizen.

The answer to global cooling: More taxes and government control

The answer to global warming: More taxes and government control

The answer to "climate chaos": More taxes and government control

Its almost like there is a pattern here that has nothing to do with what the nominal problem is

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:19 AM (oZhjI)

96 71 Has anyone factored in the impact on climate of polar bears swimming in the Arctic and causing upwelling? No, I thought not. Amateurs.
Posted by: Archimedes

I thought they all went extinct?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

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The last one was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, sitting forlornly on a melting ice cube.

That was 20 years ago. He has to be dead by now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:19 AM (WBQfF)

97 91 If you listen to her saying it, it's not as bad as it sounds in the text. She was putting a series of propositions forward.
1) The climate crisis is real
2) that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics
3) that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.

Now, holding yourself to a deadline around time is gibberish, since that's what a deadline is, but fair is fair.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)

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She's overexplaining a simple concept and comes off sounding dumb because she's trying to sound smart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

98 People who take note of nature, and how it behaves know when the weather will change and what sort of season it's going to be.

My walnut trees decided it was fall some weeks ago, a week before we had that unusual, and welcome, stretch of fall weather. Amazing. What signal were the trees noticing?

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024 11:20 AM (B46kE)

99 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the south that now claim summers are hotter then they've ever been.

They aren't exactly wrong but yeah lady summers are hotter in Phoenix than in Chicago for a reason outside of global warming...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (oZhjI)

100 Trust the science!!! **

** Not applicable when the science goes against the narrative.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (T3pRr)

101 The weather here (Manhattan) has been one of the mildest summers I can remember. Rarely got above 90, only a few days of 95+, and I don't think it ever got to 100.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

Yet the forecasts have been consistently 2-3 degrees warmer than actual.

I wonder why that is?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (d9fT1)

102 My walnut trees decided it was fall some weeks ago, a week before we had that unusual, and welcome, stretch of fall weather. Amazing. What signal were the trees noticing?
Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024

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Nude caterpillars

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (J2vNu)

103 People who take note of nature, and how it behaves know when the weather will change and what sort of season it's going to be.

My walnut trees decided it was fall some weeks ago, a week before we had that unusual, and welcome, stretch of fall weather. Amazing. What signal were the trees noticing?

We suddenly have hordes of squirrels up in the hornbeams, munching down on something. I assume this means they know winter is coming and they're trying to fatten up.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)

104 My walnut trees decided it was fall some weeks ago, a week before we had that unusual, and welcome, stretch of fall weather. Amazing. What signal were the trees noticing?

I've been seeing leaves turning as well in my area while the temperatures are still warm...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (oZhjI)

105
Yet the forecasts have been consistently 2-3 degrees warmer than actual.

I wonder why that is?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (d9fT1)

"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

106 I get a boner every time one of those yellow areas pop up on the NOAA tropical activity charts.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, The Weather Channel at August 30, 2024 11:22 AM (Y1sOo)

107 Nude caterpillars

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (J2vNu)

un-wooly worms

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2024 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

108 ~whew~

It's a scorcher here on the peanut ranch today!

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhaCC2Ff64

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (5hfjS)

109 Never mind the facts, it could happen that's why we need to act now. there's no time to wait

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (eUFWN)

110 Nude caterpillars
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (J2vNu)
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Wait, Ace has stomped us with a caterpillar thread?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (VdhcA)

111 86 A funny side note on this. The left will tell you the world is overpopulated, still, and that people are using too many resources, still...and then tell you we have to bring 50-100M people from third world countries where they use fewer resources here where they will use more.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:17 AM (oZhjI)
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Two distinct parts of the Demofascist Party with different goals: the true lefties want to cull the herd, while the fascist part want cheap labor they can easily control.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (LHDVh)

112 Oh and another point in all this - if you live in a concrete jungle, as most American cities are, it will be much much warmer then if you go outside of it.

We joke about frying an egg on the road but on that same sort of day if you just go for a walk in a wooded area the temperatures will be significantly lower.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (oZhjI)

113 99 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the south that now claim summers are hotter then they've ever been.

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I’ve heard a lot of people at when they were kids there was so much more snow on the ground than now. But snowfall today is essentially the same as it was “in the olden days”. But people have been brainwashed into thinking differently,

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 11:23 AM (T3pRr)

114 > Having worked for NOAA I can, with some level of certainty say this is all horseshit.

Which "this" do you mean?
Posted by: Oddbob
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All of it. Anything the 'experts' are saying. Anything the government is saying. With regards to there being a 'climate crisis.' It's all horseshit. It's a plan to gin up fear and implement draconian mandates to control the civilian population.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

115 My walnut trees decided it was fall some weeks ago, a week before we had that unusual, and welcome, stretch of fall weather. Amazing. What signal were the trees noticing?

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I think the Joo Weather Machine broadcasts on a frequency that humans cannot receive.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (WBQfF)

116
We suddenly have hordes of squirrels up in the hornbeams, munching down on something. I assume this means they know winter is coming and they're trying to fatten up.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
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You know who else knew winter is coming?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (VdhcA)

117 I’ve heard a lot of people at when they were kids there was so much more snow on the ground than now. But snowfall today is essentially the same as it was “in the olden days”. But people have been brainwashed into thinking differently,

I still switch my summer/winter clothes out of storage about the same time every year...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (oZhjI)

118 A few hot days in NoVA this year but the big thing has been the lack of rain. At least we finally got some last night.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (LxER7)

119 You know who else knew winter is coming?

Elsa's boyfriend?

Posted by: Obligatory at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (oZhjI)

120 Any idiot could have told you the seas were cooling. Just stick your head out the fucking window. The weather here (Manhattan) has been one of the mildest summers I can remember. Rarely got above 90, only a few days of 95+, and I don't think it ever got to 100.

Local weather isn't the same as climate!!! Reeeeee!!!!!!! Science deniers!!!!!

Posted by: Hyperventilating Green Activist at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (JCZqz)

121 "Hot today."

"Aye-uh."

"Gonna be a scorcher."

"Aye-uh."

"Sam Drucker sez Miz Douglas was found drunk in a hotel in Bugtussle with a sheep and a rutabaga."

"What'll they think of next."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (J2vNu)

122 You know who else knew winter is coming?

Everyone because it happens every year?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

123 114 All of it. Anything the 'experts' are saying. Anything the government is saying. With regards to there being a 'climate crisis.' It's all horseshit. It's a plan to gin up fear and implement draconian mandates to control the civilian population.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

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But this would imply that scientists are human beings, able to be influenced by human desires such as money, which is impossible.

One becomes more moral and enters a higher form of existence once one puts on a lab coat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

124 As I've heard it said, "If you torture data enough, it will confess to anything."
Posted by: Halfhand at August 30, 2024 11:12 AM (/jMds)

lies
damn lies
statistics...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (v6XNT)

125 I know a lot of people that moved from the North/Northeast to the south that now claim summers are hotter then they've ever been.

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I’ve heard a lot of people at when they were kids there was so much more snow on the ground than now. But snowfall today is essentially the same as it was “in the olden days”. But people have been brainwashed into thinking differently,
Posted by: Write it off Jerry

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Yep. This is a huge part of the scam.

All while people who moved from 100F / 100% humidity into other areas look around and wonder why people are complaining about such a pleasant day.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (m/kdL)

126 Come to me for a more reliable forecast.

Posted by: Blindfolded monkey in front of a dartboard at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (wGerL)

127 We suddenly have hordes of squirrels up in the hornbeams, munching down on something. I assume this means they know winter is coming and they're trying to fatten up.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
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You know who else knew winter is coming?

Not the fuhrer, that's for sure, otherwise he'd have provided his troops with proper winter gear.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

128 What movie was it, one part was a guy who was a weatherman in Hawaii. He had videotaped himself giving the weather "clear blue and 72" forecast and they would just play that every day and he never actually had to go to work hardly. It was hilarious. Chevy chase or maybe Steve Martin

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (eUFWN)

129 I'm still waiting for these 'experts' to acknowledge the sun's ~11 year cycle has an influence on the weather.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

One benefit of the solar activity is that when I was in Alaska last month, I got to see northern lights during the summer. That was awesome.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (lTGtQ)

130
I still switch my summer/winter clothes out of storage about the same time every year...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024

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Unlike most natives here, I have winter clothes and I use them. But never do I put the summer clothes away. It can be 80 F. on Christmas Day and warm spells can occur in Jan. and Feb.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)

131 Unintentionally rueful White House press release this morning touting the Biden-Harris "success" in driving down inflation to the "lowest level in almost three years".

IOW, almost to where it was when PDJT was last in office.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (LHDVh)

132 What does Jim Kramer have to say about climate change?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (v6JzV)

133 I also get a boner every time I accidently walk into Jen Carfagno's changing room.

Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, The Weather Channel at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (Y1sOo)

134 I don't believe in the Climate Doom crap, but it's too early in the hurricane season to be feel relieved and complacent where I live. Not far from where Beryl's eye came ashore. For example, a pressure area with a 40 pct chance of development to a tropical system is now in the mid-Atlantic and projected to follow the same track as Beryl for the next 5-7 days.

Hopefully it will not develop then track as Beryl did. Stay safe y'all, wherever you are.

Posted by: Gref at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (aBgBM)

135 A few hot days in NoVA this year but the big thing has been the lack of rain. At least we finally got some last night.

Boy howdy. Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

136 It was hilarious. Chevy chase or maybe Steve Martin
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (eUFWN)

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If it was hilarious it couldn't have been Chevy Chase. Probably Steve Martin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (WBQfF)

137 I'm still waiting for these 'experts' to acknowledge the sun's ~11 year cycle has an influence on the weather.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

The sun has NOTHING to do with the temperatures on Earth. MAN does that, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

138 The neat trick climate fanatics do is look at a thermometer in an open field places there in 1990. Now that open field is a suburb with. There thermometer is still there and temps are 4 degrees hotter. Not due to global bullshit warming but due to the extra heat generated by the suburb compared to an open field.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (T3pRr)

139 What movie was it, one part was a guy who was a weatherman in Hawaii. He had videotaped himself giving the weather "clear blue and 72" forecast and they would just play that every day and he never actually had to go to work hardly. It was hilarious. Chevy chase or maybe Steve Martin
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:26 AM (eUFWN)
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L.A. Story, wiht Steve Martin. He actually only did it for one weekend, which turned out to have a downpour.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (VdhcA)

140 Unintentionally rueful White House press release this morning touting the Biden-Harris "success" in driving down inflation to the "lowest level in almost three years".

IOW, almost to where it was when PDJT was last in office.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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Prices only doubled on goods and services, and now we've lowered inflation, too!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 11:28 AM (m/kdL)

141 All while people who moved from 100F / 100% humidity into other areas look around and wonder why people are complaining about such a pleasant day.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (m/kdL)

We hosted my niece and nephew and rugrat this past week...they live in Miami, and they commented about "how f*cking cold" it is here!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 11:28 AM (d9fT1)

142 Shit I'm supposed to visit my brother in Tampa in mid September. Just my luck one will develop right before I fly in there.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (iF0sF)

143 Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (iF0sF)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

144 All of it. Anything the 'experts' are saying. Anything the government is saying. With regards to there being a 'climate crisis.' It's all horseshit. It's a plan to gin up fear and implement draconian mandates to control the civilian population.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

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But this would imply that scientists are human beings, able to be influenced by human desires such as money, which is impossible.

One becomes more moral and enters a higher form of existence once one puts on a lab coat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
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Add a stethoscope and that morality becomes divine

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

145 Oh and another point in all this - if you live in a concrete jungle, as most American cities are, it will be much much warmer then if you go outside of it.

Posted by: 18-1

Notice that when Houston added 1.2 million more people over the past decade and concreted over vast swathes of land for housing, flooding became more common as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)

146 Clear blue and 72 is more San Diego weather. Hawaii is 83 Sunny and then some rain possible.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (T3pRr)

147 We hosted my niece and nephew and rugrat this past week...they live in Miami, and they commented about "how f*cking cold" it is here!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo a

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We took a trip to Ohio in July and were advised by the people we were traveling with to bring a light jacket or overshirt for the evenings.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (m/kdL)

148
Prices only doubled on goods and services, and now we've lowered inflation, too!

LIVs in general still believe "lowering inflation" means the prices go back to what they were in the Trump years. I suspect this will be one of the factors driving voting against Harris.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (oZhjI)

149 The Independent: Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power...made the bold claim as an answer on what he'd do, "to make life more affordable and bring down inflation for someone like me." "It's probably the question I get most," Trump responded at first, eventually launching into what on critic denounced as a "word salad."

"You take a look at bacon and some of these products, and some people don't eat bacon anymore." "And we are going to get the energy prices down," he continued.

"When we get energy down – you know this was caused by their horrible energy. Wind – they want wind all over the place," he added. "But when it doesn't blow we have a little problem," Trump added.

The media has normalized this. They have yet to bring in any medical specialists, whether gerontologists or psychiatric professionals, to dissect this repeated aberrant behavior, prefering to instead, dismiss it. Meanwhile, they have devoted significant resources to search furiously for any sign of health failure by Democrats, and when none is found, they will manufacture something.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (JCZqz)

150
Add a stethoscope and that morality becomes divine
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

See: The run up to Owebamacare

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

151 144 Add a stethoscope and that morality becomes divine
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

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Divine? or...Divine?

Holy or Pink Flamingos?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

152 66 Has anyone factored in the impact on climate of polar bears swimming in the Arctic and causing upwelling? No, I thought not. Amateurs.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:13 AM (xCA6C)
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That may be balanced by penguins swimming in the Antartic.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, l'uragano e raro #29 at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (qfLjt)

153 >>I’ve heard a lot of people at when they were kids there was so much more snow on the ground than now. But snowfall today is essentially the same as it was “in the olden days”. But people have been brainwashed into thinking differently,

I don't think that's true but I also don't think it's because of manmade global warming. We had a pond in the woods behind my house when I was in middle and high school and we played hockey on it from November to March after walking through the snow to reach it. We haven't had that kind of winter here in a while.

Doesn't mean we won't have them again. I'm already seeing signs of an early fall with leaves changing and cooler than normal nights.

We've gone through periods of cold and warm throughout history. What people have been brainwashed into thinking is that my car and cow farts have anything to do with it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (LkLld)

154 There was snow in the northern Sierra's last week.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (/U5Yz)

155 Climatology is a scam, these days.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 30, 2024 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

156 The Independent: Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power

For as much as leftists are always claiming they were taken out of context they sure do it a lot.

Green energy is more expensive. Increased energy costs raise the price of everything. Because of that and the rest of Harris-flation people have had to change their eating habits.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:31 AM (oZhjI)

157 We took a trip to Ohio in July and were advised by the people we were traveling with to bring a light jacket or overshirt for the evenings.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone

One year, it was so cool on the Fourth of July in Michigan that we had to have a campfire at my family's Fourth of July picnic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:31 AM (v6JzV)

158 Yeah, in the 60s they were giving awards to guys like Norman Borlaug who pioneered new ways of feeding the multitudes. Maybe they can tear his statues down too, I suppose.

Sierra Club was a staunch proponent of nuclear energy, and they were "against" illegal migration by the hordes because of resource demands, pollution, timber cutting, new roads, freshwater aquifier depletion. Their donors, the big money thought otherwise.

"Homeland Security" where the natives have someone crawl up their ass with a microscope if you want to get on a plane, but the borders are wide open? I was so naive on 9/11/2001 that I thought the government was going to take border control and internal controls seriously. They had to, I reasoned. Boy was I stupid.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:32 AM (eUFWN)

159 We've gone through periods of cold and warm throughout history. What people have been brainwashed into thinking is that my car and cow farts have anything to do with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (LkLld)

"That's right, plebian."

- - - Al Gore Smoking A Cigar With His Feet Up Releasing His Chakras

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

160 There was snow in the northern Sierra's last week.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2024 11:30 AM (/U5Yz)
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C.W. at the Daily Timewaster posted a photo of Shasta, and commented that it looked like the mountain in winter.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:33 AM (VdhcA)

161 I was promised chaos before the US elections. Just saying.

Also, a wave of dead among the vaxxed. It was supposed to be between years 3 to 5 and that Deagle report ain't going to empty out Western trash by itself....

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:33 AM (jvJvP)

162 Kumswala's interview must have been a disaster. How do I know? None of the media bootlickers are talking about it. I guess it went right down the memory hole.

I did read some of the transcript from right-leaning sources. Wow. This women is fucking dumb. Like truly low-IQ stupid. She whiffed on some softballs she had to know were coming, and had to have a prepared response.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

163 162 Kumswala's interview must have been a disaster. How do I know? None of the media bootlickers are talking about it. I guess it went right down the memory hole.

I did read some of the transcript from right-leaning sources. Wow. This women is fucking dumb. Like truly low-IQ stupid. She whiffed on some softballs she had to know were coming, and had to have a prepared response.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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DU loved it and thought that not even crazy right wingers would be able to find anything to fault.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

164 156 The Independent: Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power

For as much as leftists are always claiming they were taken out of context they sure do it a lot.

If only they, uh, would let the man be clear!

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (JCZqz)

165 We took a trip to Ohio in July and were advised by the people we were traveling with to bring a light jacket or overshirt for the evenings.

When the kids were much smaller, we took trips to DW in February and March. We knew to pack heavier clothes, up to and including parkas, because standing in an hour-long line in 30 degree weather would be unpleasant. There were always lots of other people in short and t-shirts, trying to look like they weren't freezing the asses off, but it was obvious they were.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)

166 Rising Democrat Star Gov. Wes Moore(D-MD) Gets Exposed After Falsely Claiming to be Bronze Star Recipient

More stolen valor.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (/U5Yz)

167 DU loved it and thought that not even crazy right wingers would be able to find anything to fault.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

Retards lick windows and think it tastes good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

168 Stuff like snow levels is regional I guess. I’ve lived where I am now for 20 years. Snow start's around Thanksgiving and ends around Easter. Hasn’t changed at all the past 2 decades when supposedly snow was going to be a thing of the past.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (T3pRr)

169 I missed the Art Thread so pardon me if this has already been discussed ad infinitum, but are all the humans in that painting giving homage to the Big Penguin In The Sky

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (WXNFJ)

170 Around here they say if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes, it'll change.

It's not unusual for temperatures to swing 20-30 degrees in one day.

What we really like is getting a 60-70 degree day in, say, February. Time to go to the park!

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (JCLJi)

171 84
‘ At least Stanley Pons admitted he was wrong.’

What?! The hell I did! Everything I publish is true.
Oh. You mean the fusion thing. Yeah, that was technically inaccurate.

Posted by: Dr. Stanley Pons at August 30, 2024 11:35 AM (wRDx+)

172
What does Jim Kramer have to say about climate change?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2024 11:27 AM (v6JzV)

He says back up the truck.

Go all in on Climate Change.

So.....you know...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 11:35 AM (eDfFs)

173 If we don't ban all uses of fossil fuels and kill 6.8B people NYC will be buried under 700 miles of ice by next Tuesday! -- Experts
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (IUd0M)

Uh, if that's the case, let me go outside and fire up every single motorized vehicle and tool I have.
And I have a few tires around here I could light up with old gas.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 30, 2024 11:35 AM (FCbAQ)

174
In 1933 there were 21 named storms, none of which were in the Eastern Atlantic.

In 2005, there were 7 storms that formed in the Eastern Atlantic and never moved into the Western Atlantic. They would have never been identified as named storms in prior eras. Naturally, when you are finding storms where you didn’t formerly look, you’re going to find more of them, hence we have more named storms in the modern era.

Well lookee there -- more signals that matters are getting worse in support of your alarmist fantasies!

That ranks right up there with conditions around weather data-gathering stations having changed in ways that bolster getting higher temperature readings.

Honestly, if they are unable to practice checking and maintaining the integrity of long-term data collection efforts because failing to do so reinforces their alarmist fantasies, then the ranks of "scientists" are overdue for a good purging. With prejudice ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 30, 2024 11:36 AM (xG4kz)

175 This women is fucking dumb. Like truly low-IQ stupid. She whiffed on some softballs she had to know were coming, and had to have a prepared response.

The Junta doesn't want a smart driven person in the presidency. That's how you accidentally go from an oligarchy to a despotism...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:36 AM (oZhjI)

176 Kumswala's interview must have been a disaster. How do I know? None of the media bootlickers are talking about it. I guess it went right down the memory hole.

I did read some of the transcript from right-leaning sources. Wow. This women is fucking dumb. Like truly low-IQ stupid. She whiffed on some softballs she had to know were coming, and had to have a prepared response.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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DU loved it and thought that not even crazy right wingers would be able to find anything to fault.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
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DU never saw a second of it. They were stoned out of their skulls watching pink elephants dancing with unicorns on their filthy apartment walls.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

177 There are still people living in FEMA trailers in the state, three years after Hurricane Ida. Seems to me I remember there were still "displaced" people in similar trailers for three or four years after Katrina hit, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

Would that be because, for some folks, the FEMA trailers are better accommodation, with better neighbors?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (JrPVg)

178 Ehrlich's Message: "Stop Having Babies"

Gore's Message: "Stop using oil, and cars"

Current Message" "Stop letting your kids go through puberty, make them LGBTQ, cut off their genitals, shower with them, don't let them be Christian, etc"

All these only apply to The West.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (Cus5s)

179 We took a trip to Ohio in July and were advised by the people we were traveling with to bring a light jacket or overshirt for the evenings.

When the kids were much smaller, we took trips to DW in February and March. We knew to pack heavier clothes, up to and including parkas, because standing in an hour-long line in 30 degree weather would be unpleasant. There were always lots of other people in short and t-shirts, trying to look like they weren't freezing the asses off, but it was obvious they were.
Posted by: Archimedes

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I'm going to switch this to college football for a minute.

This is something that I hate never panned out back when defensive football was still allowed. People would constantly complain that SEC teams wouldn't come play up north because it's cold. That never made sense to me. These guys train for hours a day in 95F + 100% humidity.

I always wanted it to happen to see just how much longer each of those players would be able to stay on the field before needing to come to the sidelines for a break.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (m/kdL)

180 What?! The hell I did! Everything I publish is true.
Oh. You mean the fusion thing. Yeah, that was technically inaccurate.

Posted by: Dr. Stanley Pons

You're such a hoser.

Posted by: Zombie Martin Fleischmann at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (xCA6C)

181 DU never saw a second of it. They were stoned out of their skulls watching pink elephants dancing with unicorns on their filthy apartment walls.

Not...exactly. They were watching tranny pron and just saw a headline at DU or Kos or whatever telling them Harris was brilliant.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (oZhjI)

182
...When the kids were much smaller, we took trips to DW in February and March...

Der Wienerschnitzel?

Man, they were great!

What happened? Do they go out of business?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (eDfFs)

183 DU loved it and thought that not even crazy right wingers would be able to find anything to fault.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I posted some comments in The Morning Report thread, but really there is very little discussion about it over there. Much less than, say, the debate (or what I was expecting).

Could mean it was a disaster, or no one cared enough to watch it. Not good for the Dems either way.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

184 I understand that they do care if intelligent people run for office. But they have to be able to give a speech. That's their job, speeches, intervirws and kissing babies.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (k4MDI)

185 DU never saw a second of it. They were stoned out of their skulls watching pink elephants dancing with unicorns on their filthy apartment walls.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:36 AM

I'm cleaning up after a year of renovations on and off.

Is there a place I could buy something like that described. I have tried thc gummies and capsules in the last month. No unicorns or pink elephants.

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:39 AM (jvJvP)

186 We were right, it's nature that got it wrong!

Posted by: Climate "Scientists" at August 30, 2024 11:39 AM (fQmeC)

187 Another DEI triumph!

Boeing’s Plagued Starliner Spacecraft Facing Uncertain Future as NASA Considers Canceling Project

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 30, 2024 11:39 AM (SWvL5)

188 I understand that they do care if intelligent people run for office. But they have to be able to give a speech. That's their job, speeches, intervirws and kissing babies.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (k4MDI)
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I'm a politician. That means when I'm not kissin' babies, I'm stealin' their lollipops.

Posted by: Dr. Jeffrey Pelt at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (VdhcA)

189 Climatology is a scam, these days.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yep. Even displaced us;
Scientology
Astrology
Phrenology

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (WXNFJ)

190 Boeing’s Plagued Starliner Spacecraft Facing Uncertain Future as NASA Considers Canceling Project

One wonders just how badly you have to f*** up for NASA to simply say "you guys suck, you're done".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (xCA6C)

191 >>> 173 If we don't ban all uses of fossil fuels and kill 6.8B people NYC will be buried under 700 miles of ice by next Tuesday! -- Experts
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:03 AM (IUd0M)

Uh, if that's the case, let me go outside and fire up every single motorized vehicle and tool I have.
And I have a few tires around here I could light up with old gas.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 30, 2024 11:35 AM (FCbAQ)

I don't have any tires, but I have lots of other things to burn and several engines to run...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (FnneF)

192 That little spot now has a 50% chance to develop as of last night, and there’s another just off the African coast that’s rated at 20%. Still, it’s been quiet so far, and I give thanks to that. I took a direct hit from Beryl, so statistically I should be done for the season.

The 50% wave is now tracking a little more south than it was. While it’s so far away that anything can happen, southerly tracks are concerning. Anything heading towards the Yucatán peninsula threatens the Texas coast. Second most worrisome is a storm that passes between Cuba and Florida. Those usually turn north, and it’s just a question of when and where.

Posted by: Advo at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (jO4mz)

193 Boeing’s Plagued Starliner Spacecraft Facing Uncertain Future as NASA Considers Canceling Project
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 30, 2024 11:39 AM (SWvL5)

Those people up there are going to die, aren't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

194 even a disturbance

Most assuredly a lull before the coming apocalypse. The earth will melt. Green things will shrivel up. Those that remain will live in caves, high in the mountains with the ocean lapping at our ankles while we eat each other. Turn off your AC!!

-The hair on fire voting bloc-

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (jC7hV)

195 Neo Neo (I used to really like her blog; I don't know if she still has it) writing at "Legal Insurrection" called the Kamala interview "lackluster and awkward" and did some good analysis:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3m5kb7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (dTTBf)

196 183 I posted some comments in The Morning Report thread, but really there is very little discussion about it over there. Much less than, say, the debate (or what I was expecting).

Could mean it was a disaster, or no one cared enough to watch it. Not good for the Dems either way.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

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That's interesting.

Their candidate's first real exposure to the world as candidate, and even die-hard partisans on her side barely care.

But those D+44 samples in MI showing her with a 0.1% lead can't be wrong!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

197 Regarding Kamala,

I do go to deadline just to get away from insanity.

For a leftie website, there have not been a lot of comments on Kamala threads. Not even "You go,girl!"

Posting is like the easiest way to show support but nothing.

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (jvJvP)

198 I remember in that silly global warming movie they had NYC frozen over.

I mean...if you can have black vikings or kung fu elf women in your fiction why not right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (oZhjI)

199 Boeing’s Plagued Starliner Spacecraft Facing Uncertain Future as NASA Considers Canceling Project
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 30, 2024 11:39 AM (SWvL5)

Those people up there are going to die, aren't they.

Nah, we've got this.

Posted by: Elon at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)

200 As a quick reminder, the corrupted “scientific” doomsayers predicted this to be an unprecedented hurricane season, with near-constant storms reaching a record total, and a huge percentage of them catastrophically destructive.

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Hurricane Trump?

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (WlJra)

201 Not...exactly. They were watching tranny pron and just saw a headline at DU or Kos or whatever telling them Harris was brilliant.
Posted by: 18-1

Hey! Don't knock it until you've tried it! And, you might have to give it a few chances before your brain adapts. And if you still don't like it, my understanding is you're a transphobe because of cultural indoctrination, and you should watch more and invite some young children to join you, to help yourself AND the next generation.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

202 There are still people living in FEMA trailers in the state, three years after Hurricane Ida. Seems to me I remember there were still "displaced" people in similar trailers for three or four years after Katrina hit, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024
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Would that be because, for some folks, the FEMA trailers are better accommodation, with better neighbors?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2024

***
That could be true. Though I'm talking about smaller communities like Houma and Thibodaux, not the congested city here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

203 Yeah, it's just a formalized and tailored nihilist, central core message of ritualized suicide. Mind fvckery on an epic scale. If you've ever wondered what all those "think tanks" and benignly named institutes for social research were doing all those years ....

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:42 AM (eUFWN)

204 And I have a few tires around here I could light up with old gas.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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*opens window*
*inhales deeply*

Posted by: Gwen Walz at August 30, 2024 11:42 AM (iZbyp)

205 Something that was repeated in doom story after doom story was there being “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters,” due to your sinful, carbon-addicted lifestyle, which is causing the oceans to boil.

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I blame plastic straws.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (WlJra)

206 198 I remember in that silly global warming movie they had NYC frozen over.

I mean...if you can have black vikings or kung fu elf women in your fiction why not right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (oZhjI)

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The Day After Tomorrow reminded me of old anti-nuclear stuff from Japan like The H-Man.

The purported negative consequences of nuclear power were so overwrought and obviously incorrect that, even though it's supposed to have an anti-nuclear social effect, it probably backfired more than it helped the cause.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

207 I think one of the coldest times I can recall was an April in Florida.

Florida... we were thinking shorts and t-shirts. Spring break. Sun and fun.

It was overcast and 40 degrees. Nearly died from frostbite.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

208 {{sponge}}

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (iF0sF)

209 Great ad by RFL Jr.'s team.

https://tinyurl.com/4jt68ksz

Perfect.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (oiNtH)

210 Neo Neo (I used to really like her blog; I don't know if she still has it)
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It is now at thenewneo.com.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (VdhcA)

211 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.

Had this been an EPA employee, it could have taken months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)

212 I remember in that silly global warming movie they had NYC frozen over.

I mean...if you can have black vikings or kung fu elf women in your fiction why not right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (oZhjI)

The Day After Tomorrow.

Where the earth was covered with hyperfreezing hurricanes dropping temps to below zero, sucking all the heat out of everything.

Because of global warming.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

213 We had a recent volcanic eruption that put ash in the atmosphere. Now we have an unseasonable cold snap. This isn't hard to figure out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (k4MDI)

214 RFK Jr.'s team. Ugh.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (oiNtH)

215 Leaked Images Give Us a Look at China’s New Stealth Warship

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Isn't that an oxymoron?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (SWvL5)

216 Dumb is cool.

Posted by: Typical Dem Voter at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (/U5Yz)

217 Here's a conundrum for the Horde: Markie Post vs Sela Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

218 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (VdhcA)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (dTTBf)

219 The tall buildings, glass everywhere, and hard ground surfaces hold the heat and humidity.

See? It really is "Man-Made" Global Warming.

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (sZIeh)

220 "That's right, plebian."

- - - Al Gore Smoking A Cigar With His Feet Up Releasing His Chakras
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

In 2001, Al Gore was a failed presidential candidate. He got fat and started dressing like a depressed teenager. He was worth maybe 2 million dollars.

He's now worth over 300 million. The only thing he actually "accomplished" in that time to earn any that money was to start a failed radio network which he then sold to oil producers.

That tells me everything I need to know about "global warming."

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2024 11:45 AM (TL7UX)

221 I think one of the coldest times I can recall was an April in Florida.

Florida... we were thinking shorts and t-shirts. Spring break. Sun and fun.

It was overcast and 40 degrees. Nearly died from frostbite.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

Might've been the year we felt like the snow followed us down. We were on the beach looking for sand dollars, and freezing.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 30, 2024 11:45 AM (JCLJi)

222 I posted some comments in The Morning Report thread, but really there is very little discussion about it over there. Much less than, say, the debate (or what I was expecting).

Could mean it was a disaster, or no one cared enough to watch it. Not good for the Dems either way.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 30, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

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That's interesting.

Their candidate's first real exposure to the world as candidate, and even die-hard partisans on her side barely care.

But those D+44 samples in MI showing her with a 0.1% lead can't be wrong!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
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Also: The interview was deliberately dumped the night before the start of a major holiday weekend. It was designed to have as low viewership as possible.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

223 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.

Had this been an EPA employee, it could have taken months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I read that. Employees noticed a foul odor and thought it was a plumbing issue. Someone finally did a walk through to see where odor was coming from and found her. Wow.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (oiNtH)

224 211 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.

I thought it was Chee microwaving fish heads again in the lunchroom.

Posted by: Wells Fargo Employee at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (/U5Yz)

225 You know who else knew winter is coming?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:24 AM (VdhcA)

Old Injun says: "Going to be a long, cold Winter. White man make heap big woodpile."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (JrPVg)

226 It's called a Boconism: All of the absolute truths we've been telling you are nothing but shameless lies.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)

227 As a Florida resident I know that hurricanes must be taken seriously. But the hysteria from the media is ridiculous.
Every year it's the same thing. Be prepared because this hurricane season, it really is gonna be the worst ever.
The sky is not falling. The world is not coming to an end.
Be prepared. But don't panic.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (B87pZ)

228 163
‘ not even crazy right wingers would be able to find anything to fault.’

She has faultless stupidity.
There you go, leftists! I met you halfway.

Posted by: Dr. Stanley Pons at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (wRDx+)

229 "Homeland Security" where the natives have someone crawl up their ass with a microscope if you want to get on a plane, but the borders are wide open? I was so naive on 9/11/2001 that I thought the government was going to take border control and internal controls seriously. They had to, I reasoned. Boy was I stupid.
Posted by: Common Tater
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All of that should be laid at the foot of the Bush led GOP and their corporate donors.
Many of which are now supporting Kamala Walz.

Becuz they like open borders and like Bush said in 2006 and leaked after his amnesty program imploded, they think people opposing open borders are racists.

This is a particularly assholish take from a bunch of Ivy League graduates that have been insulated from the worst of their decisions by American troops spilling their blood abroad, grifting off the massive increases in the federal budget, and living in expensive cloistered communities.

They did fine while ordinary Americans suffered and then they pivoted to the Dems who is their natural party anyway. The cowardly sort remained titular GOP and genuflected on the Dems issues while sniping at the GOP base.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (kW+z9)

230 Also: The interview was deliberately dumped the night before the start of a major holiday weekend. It was designed to have as low viewership as possible.

And they only showed 18 minutes out of what was probably an hour interview. I'm sure they cut the best parts, just like they'd do for Trump.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (xCA6C)

231
RFK Jr.'s team. Ugh.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM

Nicole Shanahan actually. His choice for VP who is now MAGA/MAHA.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (RKVpM)

232 The top comment in X if you search for "hurricane":

#BREAKING Here comes Hurricane Francine!!

Plenty of time for things to change BUT the models are now beginning to show once again we are about to enter "Peak Hurricane Season"

Next on the list is Francine as models show a possible Florida landfall as we enter week 2 of September! Head on a swivel!
#Hurricane

PANIC!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (uxCna)

233 Here's a conundrum for the Horde: Markie Post vs Sela Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024

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I hadn't realized Markie was so . . . well endowed.

That said, Sela has the coloring, fair skin and dark hair, that has always set my system to zinging.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (J2vNu)

234 Now, imagine if that cold spot off Africa could be engineered,
Giant pumps on the seabed powered by nuke reactors bringing the cold water from the deeps to the surface when the pressure spots develop.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (D7oie)

235 “Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected.” [Penn Today]

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For some reason, I heard in an Irish female voice (Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona) from the "Burn Notice" intro clip just pop in my head:

"Can we shoot them?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (WlJra)

236 When I was a kid we lived in Florida for about 8 months. And it snowed while we were there. Nothing much. A dusting. But we were from the north, and used to it. But the Florida kids? They were hilarious to us. Trying to make snow angels, snowmen. As if.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (JCLJi)

237 You know who else knew winter is coming?

Elsa's boyfriend?
Posted by: Obligatoryyears.

Get outta my swim lane

- Ned Stark

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (MsrgL)

238 Truthfully, if they steal the election and turn our country into a complete dystopian nightmare, I hope they get hit with a new ice age. Every one freezes to death or starves. I'm not in a ' love thy fellow man' mood this morning.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (jC7hV)

239 Science is the new anti-science or as it is better known as "political science."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (17s+e)

240 206 198 I remember in that silly global warming movie they had NYC frozen over.”

It’s a huge and obvious flaw in all the global warming doom scenarios - having NYC warm up to Charleston temperatures really isn’t that scary, so writers have to come up with some way to turn it into a big freeze instead, because that’s the only thing would actually be dangerous.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (fIpti)

241 221 I think one of the coldest times I can recall was an April in Florida

I'm pretty sure AOP is going to kick all our asses on this topic,
And I'm in Canada.....but the wimpiest part of Canada weatherwise.....

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (jvJvP)

242 But there are potential hurricanes out there!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

That's why we need a Carbon Tax! For unrealized hurricanes.

Posted by: Fa Kamala la la la la la la at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (fQmeC)

243 Great ad by RFL Jr.'s team.

It is! It combines great points with a sense of humor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (dTTBf)

244 It came as a pretty big surprise when McDonnel didn't get the Apollo command module project, which went to North American in California. Supposedly, the word mistakenly went out that they had indeed got the contract, and it was announced over the PA in St. Louis to all employees. Imagine the letdown the next day when they found out that wasn't the case.

From reading the people interviewed - who were around at the time, McDonnel. was just a whole bunch different than most other companies. They had longtime employees who were extremely loyal. So they did excellent work building the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft. The old man running the show was well loved and was out on the line every day.

In California, they viewed employees as more or less interchangeable meatsticks, and they probably had to because of all the different aerospace firms. St. Louis just pretty much had McDonnell.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (eUFWN)

245 If RFK Jr wants to Do Something about Glowball Warmening can we convince him to push for nukular power, with smaller and more numerous plants for system resilience, including stealing Billy Gates' (potential) plant in WY???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (FnneF)

246 222 Also: The interview was deliberately dumped the night before the start of a major holiday weekend. It was designed to have as low viewership as possible.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

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Such confidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

247 "It is very late August, we are at the peak of Hurricane Season, and the Atlantic is devoid of any tropical activity."

Due to climate change, no doubt.

Posted by: Ripley at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (GUOwU)

248 That said, Sela has the coloring, fair skin and dark hair, that has always set my system to zinging.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

249 232 #Hurricane

PANIC!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2024 11:47 AM (uxCna)

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"How else will we get people to tune in?"
-The Weather Channel

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

250
Those people up there are going to die, aren't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

*sings*
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you?
...

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Zombie David Bowie Pissed That You Can't Collect Royalties in the Afterlife at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (eDfFs)

251 “Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected.” [Penn Today]

How has Michael Mann not been humiliated into Harakiri?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

252 Angry Crab Shack (new restaurant in town) > Angry Climate God

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (WlJra)

253 222 I posted some comments in The Morning Report thread, but really there is very little discussion about it over there. Much less than, say, the debate (or what I was expecting).

Could mean it was a disaster, or no one cared enough to watch it. Not good for the Dems either way.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
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Watch for Trump ads using the clips that I've seen so far that make Kamala appear to be an absolute idiot while trying to 'act' smart and 'act' like an adult.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:50 AM (kW+z9)

254 251 How has Michael Mann not been humiliated into Harakiri?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

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Oh come on, Black Hat wasn't THAT bad...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

255 It was not a dark and stormy night.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 30, 2024 11:50 AM (D96Ho)

256 Would that be because, for some folks, the FEMA trailers are better accommodation, with better neighbors?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2024 11:37 AM (JrPVg)

My husband and I stayed at a campground near Houston back in April that had probably seven or eight FEMA trailers permanently parked on it. All of them were occupied by full-timers. Those trailers are butt-ugly, too.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (k9OZB)

257
The Day After Tomorrow.

Weather porn. I gotta kick out of the characters donning snowshoes and traveling from Philly or DC to NYC in one day. I knew it was gonna be bullshit, but I would enjoy picking it apart.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (RKVpM)

258
We always watch the Weather Channel when travelling for the comedy 'DOOM' hurricane coverage.

Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (j4U/Z)

259 Tim Walz's face is at least 50 percent mouth. He could be a character in Pacman.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (FfSAJ)

260 RFK Jr.'s team. Ugh.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM

Nicole Shanahan actually. His choice for VP who is now MAGA/MAHA.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I was trying to correct a typo I made at #209.

Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (oiNtH)

261 I saw The Book of Climate Revelations open for The Book of Eli at the Skyway Drive-in double-feature back in 2010.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (WlJra)

262
Oh come on, Black Hat wasn't THAT bad...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

Wrong guy, but that being said, didn't he do the Miami Vice movie?

That thing sucked worse than the black hole that made ML370 disappear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

263 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.

Had this been an EPA employee, it could have taken months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I read that. Employees noticed a foul odor and thought it was a plumbing issue. Someone finally did a walk through to see where odor was coming from and found her. Wow.
Posted by: Cheri at August 30, 2024 11:46 AM (oiNtH)
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True, but it was a Friday she was last alive. Probably died Friday as everyone was high-tailing it out of there for the weekend, and nobody was there to notice until Monday. I could easily believe someone could die in one of those remote cubicles on an isolated floor -- where she was -- and nobody would notice for days.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

264 Here's a conundrum for the Horde: Markie Post vs Sela Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

Not really a conundrum. Markie Post is a cutie. She seems fun, and projects a wholesome personality, at least to me.

Sela Ward is next-level gorgeous.

Posted by: Advo at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (jO4mz)

265 262 Wrong guy, but that being said, didn't he do the Miami Vice movie?

That thing sucked worse than the black hole that made ML370 disappear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

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Jokes aren't allowed anymore? Why does nobody tell me about these things?!

I've never hated the movie Miami Vice. It's okay. I also never watched an episode of the show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

266 I’ve heard a lot of people at when they were kids there was so much more snow on the ground than now.

There was absolutely more snowfall when I was a kid... at least those two years I lived in western Montana. When I lived in Hawaii, or Florida, or Mississippi, or Texas, those years snowfall was about what it is now... but, man, those two years I lived in Montana... mini ice-age.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (IUd0M)

267 I think the must be having global cooling at one of the food markets I go to (I have a nearer one but it's not as nice) to because it was so freaking cold I needed to wear a sweater the entire time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (dTTBf)

268 And it came to be that the first Apollo command module built by NA turned out to be pretty bad, although eventually they got their act together and made a great ship. The vagaries of government contracts.

Grumman had studied moon landing on their own dime for several years prior to any government request for proposals, so they were way, way ahead of everyone else when it came time to sit down and talk about "how are we going to do this".

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (eUFWN)

269 When I was a kid we lived in Florida for about 8 months. And it snowed while we were there. Nothing much. A dusting. But we were from the north, and used to it. But the Florida kids? They were hilarious to us. Trying to make snow angels, snowmen. As if.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 30, 2024

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The last snow here that even approached semi-serious was in '89. Three days before Christmas. Everybody panicked. I'd never driven in snow, but I figured it couldn't be too bad if you a) slowed down, b) left extra following distance, and c) didn't change direction abruptly. I wsa right, but the natives here ignored all those concepts. It took me two hours in mid-morning to drive the usual 30 minute commute home.

The stuff stayed on the ground for three days, since the temps never went above freezing . . . and the homeowners who *didn't* wrap their exposed pipes the *last* time had to call a plumber again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

270 How has Michael Mann not been humiliated into Harakiri?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)
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Or shipped to Harare.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (VdhcA)

271 Also: The interview was deliberately dumped the night before the start of a major holiday weekend. It was designed to have as low viewership as possible.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

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Such confidence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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D+25 and 120% voter participation in MI, PA, WI, and AZ gives them all the confidence they need.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

272 I've never hated the movie Miami Vice. It's okay. I also never watched an episode of the show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

Wife and I made it about 30 minutes in before we turned it off.

The show, overall, was fantastic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

273 I've never hated the movie Miami Vice. It's okay. I also never watched an episode of the show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Some shows are much better that way. Heard of but never viewed.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (kW+z9)

274 271 D+25 and 120% voter participation in MI, PA, WI, and AZ gives them all the confidence they need.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

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True dat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

275 I'm still waiting for these 'experts' to acknowledge the sun's ~11 year cycle has an influence on the weather.
It's like only people, civilization has any effect on it.
Which makes about as much sense as saying the ants in my gravel driveway affect my ability to drive my truck down it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

the Paleontology podcast I listen to had managed to admit that global changes happened in the past, but humans make it critical today.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2024 11:54 AM (D7oie)

276 ‘ I think one of the coldest times I can recall was an April in Florida.’

For me it was October in Savannah. God damn, it might as well have been November in Indiana.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 30, 2024 11:54 AM (wRDx+)

277 I think the must be having global cooling at one of the food markets I go to (I have a nearer one but it's not as nice) to because it was so freaking cold I needed to wear a sweater the entire time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (dTTBf)

Do a lot of younger women shop there? Cuz, if so, I can postulate a reason for the temperature.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (IUd0M)

278 The climate prophets were wrong again.

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And the sign said, "The words of the climate
Are written on the coral walls
And PhD halls"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (WlJra)

279 The tall buildings, glass everywhere, and hard ground surfaces hold the heat and humidity.

See? It really is "Man-Made" Global Warming.
Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (sZIeh)
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We have a building on campus with highly reflective windows. You can really notice the difference in heat when you pass by it in the morning as it reflects the suns rays.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (7fElN)

280 Thanks for this excellent post, Buck.

Used to whine in the wilderness about this, still have no idea if the forces of sanity recognize how important it is - but hopeful that if somehow the Golden Scalp Weasel returns to (partial) power, someone will explain to him/get his support regarding the central importance of aggressively countering the historic looting and totalitarian power grab that is the entire "climate" thing.

Yes, the entire thing. "Environmental" issues - themselves almost always vastly exaggerated and based only vaguely on actual science - are a separate matter (and, as one of the founders of the EPA said years ago, its mission was essentially complete decades ago).

Two massive, insanely stupid bits of vandalism: "Obamacare", and the climate nonsense, if corrected/expunged from public policy, would do 10X more than any economic policy (tax cuts, deregulation, you name it) put together to unleash prosperity - while also massively restoring basic freedoms. Every time I hear the Trumpenfuhrer drone on (correctly) about these other things, I wonder if anyone in his circle ever points this out.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (GcNJ2)

281 272 Wife and I made it about 30 minutes in before we turned it off.

The show, overall, was fantastic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

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It feels like a first draft rushed into production after the surprise success of Collateral. Not that Collateral was huge, but "Mann" + "IP people remember" was just too much to resist for Universal, it seems.

It was stupid expensive, too. $136 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

282 >>Markie Post is a cutie. She seems fun, and projects a wholesome personality, at least to me.

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She certainly was; however she's dead now.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (1Au9i)

283 How has Michael Mann not been humiliated into Harakiri?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

He came close after "The Keep".

Or, should have, anyway.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (eDfFs)

284 You know who else knew winter is coming?

Elsa's boyfriend?
Posted by: Obligatoryyears.

Her WHAT!?!?!?!?!!

Posted by: Lonely Girls writing lesbian fan fiction and hating men/reality at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

285 Most places, I'd think, will notice by the next day if someone is "Clocked in" in some way, access badge, and getting paid hours.

Was she likely a salaried employee? Also login and computer time, especially at a bank, one would think that would get flagged automatically. Don't they monitor keystrokes for signs of inactivity?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (eUFWN)

286 283 He came close after "The Keep".

Or, should have, anyway.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (eDfFs)

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I saw that in theaters!

At the BFI during a Michael Mann retrospective that was going on while I was in London on a vacation when I was younger.

I'm not old like the rest of you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

287 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

And yet, every monstrously large firm tells their employees 'you are family'.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (WXNFJ)

288 254 251 How has Michael Mann not been humiliated into Harakiri?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

You need a sense of honor.

Also, 'Starsky and Hutch' is on Roku now....

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (jvJvP)

289
She certainly was; however she's dead now.
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (1Au9i)

F*ck cancer......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

290 I miss Dr. Bill Gray. A sane voice in the hurricane and climate madness echo chamber.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (Vyll1)

291 The warming scenario goes back a ways. Stephen Vincent Benet has a poem (1930s or -'40s) called "Urban Nightmare No. 3" (I think), where he shows us what it would be like in NYC if the weather got tropical and stayed that way. Creepy and well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (J2vNu)

292 Also: The interview was deliberately dumped the night before the start of a major holiday weekend. It was designed to have as low viewership as possible.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade
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It was intended to be cut up and used in Dem ads. The apparent one hour interview ended up being cut to 18 minutes implying the rest of it was a total disaster. Even those 18 minutes have generated some horrific clips where even low info voters can see she talks bullshit and Walz is deranged.

I thought the basement campaign by Biden was the worst that I had ever seen. Kamala/Walz seem to be exceeding expectations in that department.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (kW+z9)

293 284 Her WHAT!?!?!?!?!!
Posted by: Lonely Girls writing lesbian incest fan fiction and hating men/reality at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

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FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

294 Elsa's boyfriend?
Posted by: Obligatoryyears.

Her WHAT!?!?!?!?!!
Posted by: Lonely Girls writing lesbian fan fiction and hating men/reality

Girls, let it go.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (WXNFJ)

295 Also, 'Starsky and Hutch' is on Roku now....
Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (jvJvP)

The movie or the TV show?

The movie was an abomination.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

296 The Washington Post just published an unintentionally hilarious piece about this year’s failed hurricane prognosis. It reads like the climate version of a coach’s halftime speech as he tries to rally the team to believe that even though they’re losing 24-0, they are absolutely positioned for the victory he promised.

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"Not to worry, comrades -- Bill Gates has a team at Harvard working on blotting out the sun and whipping up some historic catastrophic climate change!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (WlJra)

297 But there are potential hurricanes out there!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

That's why we need a Carbon Tax! For unrealized hurricanes.
Posted by: Fa Kamala la la la la la la at August 30, 2024 11:48 AM (fQmeC)
I'm not laughing. If the dems cheat enough to win, it's coming.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)

298 Markie Post is a cutie. She seems fun, and projects a wholesome personality, at least to me.

Marky Mark > Markie Post

Posted by: Controversial Opinion? at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

299 Markie Post is a cutie. She seems fun, and projects a wholesome personality, at least to me.

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She certainly was; however she's dead now.
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (1Au9i)

Hey, fellas!

I'm still fun and cute and a zombie.

Bring your brains!

Posted by: Zombie Markie Post at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (eDfFs)

300 285 Most places, I'd think, will notice by the next day if someone is "Clocked in" in some way, access badge, and getting paid hours.

Was she likely a salaried employee? Also login and computer time, especially at a bank, one would think that would get flagged automatically. Don't they monitor keystrokes for signs of inactivity?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (eUFWN)

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Dolley works for...ahem...one of the Big Three banks.

They have a clocking system not for tracking your time working but for tracking your time in the office.

You have to have so many days in the office per week to classify as meeting certain metrics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

301 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

The TV show!!

Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (jvJvP)

302 I've never hated the movie Miami Vice. It's okay. I also never watched an episode of the show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

Wife and I made it about 30 minutes in before we turned it off.

The show, overall, was fantastic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)
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Movie was a crime against nature. Incredibly bad casting, to begin with. Neither actor looked anything like the original cast. Even the ethnicities were way off. Script was dogshit. Even the film quality was cruddy and looked like a film-school project.

Unlike many people here, I think Michael Mann is a overrated hack. He's made one or two good movies. The rest are dogshit.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

303 The TV show!!
Posted by: Stateless at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (jvJvP)

I have the show's theme in my playlist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

304 Well, I'm off for a reenacting weekend at the coast. Keep the blog warm for me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (VdhcA)

305 217 Here's a conundrum for the Horde: Markie Post vs Sela Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

I see your Markie Post post (YouTube)

https://tinyurl.com/3cskfn9t

and raise you The Ultimate pffft you were gone compilation from Hee Haw:

https://tinyurl.com/3jfdtcjj

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (pIfcn)

306 The warming scenario goes back a ways. Stephen Vincent Benet has a poem (1930s or -'40s) called "Urban Nightmare No. 3" (I think), where he shows us what it would be like in NYC if the weather got tropical and stayed that way. Creepy and well done.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (J2vNu)

Does he mention big hairy spiders?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew8)

307 302 Even the film quality was cruddy and looked like a film-school project.

Unlike many people here, I think Michael Mann is a overrated hack. He's made one or two good movies. The rest are dogshit.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

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He was pushing that digital photography hard at that point.

The cameras looked pretty good in harsh sunlight. They looked terrible at night, and he filmed most of it at night.

Digital photography has advanced quite a bit since, but it's his The Polar Express, essentially.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

308 Unlike many people here, I think Michael Mann is a overrated hack. He's made one or two good movies. The rest are dogshit.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

His Verizon commercial was EPIC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

309 287 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

And yet, every monstrously large firm tells their employees 'you are family'.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Yes, the Kennedy family with its drug and substance abuse, sexual harassment, stirring up Rosemary's brain with a surgeon's knife, massive infidelity, bootlegging, Papa acting like a douche in WWII, murder, etc.

Wholesome family values.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (kW+z9)

310 Unlike many people here, I think Michael ~~Mann~~ Moore is a overrated hack. He's made one or two good movies. The rest are dogshit.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq.

Posted by: No One Ever at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

311 The best part of the Independence Big Pharma ad is the Trump dude that is with the woke chick. The expressions on his face when he sees Kamala, and then switches to a forced smile when sees his girlfriend looking at him, are great. Then he switches to Trump at Arlington National Cemetery. Very funny.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (wGerL)

312 Martini Farmer, my preferred metaphor is microbes on a bowling ball (humans, on the Earth, as far their impact on anything). It's the astonishing basic lack of scientific common sense, and arrogance, of *all* (yes, all) "climate" nonsense that I find so astounding and disturbing. And that's among the "scientists". Regular people/drones/sheep of the sort we all know, of course, can't begin to explain or justify even the tiniest bit of any of this. As they cannot do for *any* public policy of importance. But boy do they have "opinions" and tribal allegiances and crazy passionate delusional hobby horses.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (GcNJ2)

313 I'm not old like the rest of you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

The movie posts written in crayon was a tip-off.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (d9fT1)

314 They've been pulling this "Storm of the Century" bullshit for decades, but the punishment for us carbon-producing sinners part is a little more recent flavor.

"Something that was repeated in doom story after doom story was there being “record warm Atlantic Ocean waters,” due to your sinful, carbon-addicted lifestyle, which is causing the oceans to boil."

How this is any different from, say, Pat Robertson or someone similar claiming tornado or hurricane damage is punishment for there being gay people or whatever in the US eludes me - and of course the climate change cult roundly condemn such statements when made by anyone other than themselves.

Posted by: Boil them all at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (tMq8W)

315 I can drive 10 minutes east and experience a 20 degree shift in temperature.
At times I can WALK for 10 minutes and experience the same.
But, that's normal for where I live.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (MeG8a)

316 I'm still waiting for these 'experts' to acknowledge the sun's ~11 year cycle has an influence on the weather.

It's like only people, civilization has any effect on it.

Which makes about as much sense as saying the ants in my gravel driveway affect my ability to drive my truck down it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

If RFk would focus on the need for cutting and thinning on national forests, it would both reduce carbon emissions from forest fires and make the forests healthier.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (D7oie)

317 And yet, every monstrously large firm tells their employees 'you are family'.
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Imagine the briefings they have to provide at Wells. "Tragically, one of our valued Team members passed away at her work station..." They can't use the good ole' tried and true " .... she will be sorely missed" however. Although it is still kinda true, if you squint.... Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2024 12:01 PM (eUFWN)

318 I see your Markie Post post (YouTube)

https://tinyurl.com/3cskfn9t

My word.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2024 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

319 313 The movie posts written in crayon was a tip-off.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2024 12:00 PM (d9fT1)

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At least I graduated from finger pains.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

320 305 217 Here's a conundrum for the Horde: Markie Post vs Sela Ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xBq06udsNo
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

I see your Markie Post post (YouTube)

https://tinyurl.com/3cskfn9t

and raise you The Ultimate pffft you were gone compilation from Hee Haw:

https://tinyurl.com/3jfdtcjj
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (pIfcn)

Marie Post dated Bill Clinton.

Advantage: Sela Ward

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2024 12:02 PM (T3ioM)

321 You know who else knew winter is coming?

Pa Ingalls?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

322 The warming scenario goes back a ways. Stephen Vincent Benet has a poem (1930s or -'40s) called "Urban Nightmare No. 3" (I think), where he shows us what it would be like in NYC if the weather got tropical and stayed that way. Creepy and well done.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024
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Does he mention big hairy spiders?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024

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Not that I recall . . . but there are insects in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:02 PM (J2vNu)

323 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:55 AM (IUd0M)

I'm usually there quite early (today is was later-at about 9:30) and the only people there then are older people who just want to get their food and get the heck out. I did see one cute girl who looked like she was in her late teens but she was bundled up as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 12:03 PM (dTTBf)

324 And yet, every monstrously large firm tells their employees 'you are family'.

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On the bright side, her eyeballs weren't eaten by her cat.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at August 30, 2024 12:03 PM (m/kdL)

325 A Wells Fargo employee died in her cubicle and wasn't noticed for four days.

Had this been an EPA employee, it could have taken months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)

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Did she at least finish her TPS Reports?

I wonder if there was a janitorial crew? If so, perhaps they thought she was sleeping.

Back when I was a workaholic with a brutal commute, I used to crawl under my desk (without a bottle) for the night.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 12:03 PM (WlJra)

326 I keep thinking Michael Mann is the guy who directed Manhunter, the original film version of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It's not on his listing on IMDb, though. Who was that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

327 There was absolutely more snowfall when I was a kid... at least those two years I lived in western Montana. When I lived in Hawaii, or Florida, or Mississippi, or Texas, those years snowfall was about what it is now... but, man, those two years I lived in Montana... mini ice-age.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 11:52 AM (IUd0M)

When I was 2 years old, the snow was knee-deep. Now that I am 29, it's only ankle deep. I blame Global Warming!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2024 12:04 PM (0sq2f)

328 326 I keep thinking Michael Mann is the guy who directed Manhunter, the original film version of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It's not on his listing on IMDb, though. Who was that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

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He did. Make sure you have the right filter on, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

329 And yet, every monstrously large firm tells their employees 'you are family'.
Posted by: Tonypete

If your family is run by incompetent, micromanaging, gaslighting narcissistic control freak sociopaths, sure. Kafkaesque nightmare at home, Kafkaesque nightmare at work.

Posted by: Manson family at August 30, 2024 12:05 PM (tMq8W)

330 RE: 326: I was looking only at Mann's producing credits. He did direct Manhunter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

331 326 I keep thinking Michael Mann is the guy who directed Manhunter, the original film version of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It's not on his listing on IMDb, though. Who was that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

From memory, Mann did direct it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2024 12:06 PM (T3ioM)

332 Like most 80s shows, watching Miami Vice today is cringe as the kids would say.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 30, 2024 12:06 PM (T3pRr)

333 I see no one has nooded yet. Harrisnomics.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 30, 2024 12:06 PM (IUd0M)

334 my preferred metaphor is microbes on a bowling ball (humans, on the Earth, as far their impact on anything). It's the astonishing basic lack of scientific common sense, and arrogance, of *all* (yes, all) "climate" nonsense that I find so astounding and disturbing

That's a bit extreme. Humans have had a significant impact on the planet, whether exterminating animals, raising atmospheric CO2 levels, completely changing forests, plains, and swamps to farmland on a global scale, etc. And, with nuclear weapons, a major war would change the planet in undeniable ways.

How significant the IMPACT of some of these changes (like spiking CO2 percentages) are is another topic, but we impact the planet much more than microbes on a bowling ball.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 30, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

335 Dolley works for...ahem...one of the Big Three banks.

They have a clocking system not for tracking your time working but for tracking your time in the office.

You have to have so many days in the office per week to classify as meeting certain metrics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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FWIW, Warren Buffett is selling off his large holdings in Bank of America among his other selloffs such as Apple. He is converting to cash probably in order to buy back after stocks drop massively in price. Good signal for stormy weather in the economy coming. The Dollar General and Big Lots poor financial results are also a storm flag that people are flat broke. Wealthy people never darken the doors of either establishment.

A lot of Americans and as well as their federal, state, and local governments are overextended in debt. Fed is constrained because any reduction in interest will pump inflation higher while used by corporations to shore up their bottom line or do stock buybacks--not for investment.

Not a good recipe.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 12:07 PM (kW+z9)

336 I keep thinking Michael Mann is the guy who directed Manhunter, the original film version of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It's not on his listing on IMDb, though. Who was that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024
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From memory, Mann did direct it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 202

***
It's well done and well cast, with the first appearance on film of Hannibal Lecter, though not played by Anthony Hopkins. Quite effective.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

337 Here's to hoping this season remains dead in the Atlantic. When the election disaster is unfolding I will be on a boat in the Caribbean. Small boat, I guess (42-feet). We don't want to have to deal with that exotic (to SoCal sailors) concept of "weather", much less an actual storm.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2024 12:07 PM (GcNJ2)

338 >>>Science is the new anti-science or as it is better known as "political science."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

>At the least the "Science" of religion, represented by Pope Frankie, preserved Joe Biden from the fate of JFK.

What's Kamala to do? Gandhi surrendered to the fucking British during WWII.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2024 12:08 PM (XGL1u)

339 Noodus ace

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

340 How this is any different from, say, Pat Robertson or someone similar claiming tornado or hurricane damage is punishment for there being gay people or whatever in the US eludes me - and of course the climate change cult roundly condemn such statements when made by anyone other than themselves.
Posted by: Boil them all
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None. I quit watching that shit years and years ago and use weather apps while ignoring their stupid video clips. Knew a boomer couple where the guy in the family was upset that his wife cut the cable cord and went to streaming. He was upset that he could not easily watch those awful weather and reality shows on the Weather channel.

That is reflective of the bullshit scaremongering has on some folks. They get to like it like a horror movie.

Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 12:10 PM (kW+z9)

341 I think Michael Mann is a overrated hack. He's made one or two good movies. The rest are dogshit.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 30, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

He had a good run with "Thief", "Manhunter", "Last of the Mohicans", and "Heat"
(with a pause in there to shit out "The Keep".)

Then not much-

Then an okay short run with "The Aviator" and "Collateral"(Jamie Foxx contaminated that movie with his Jamie Foxxishness as he does all his movies.)

That's better than most directors do in their careers.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 12:11 PM (eDfFs)

342 341 Then an okay short run with "The Aviator" and "Collateral"(Jamie Foxx contaminated that movie with his Jamie Foxxishness as he does all his movies.)

That's better than most directors do in their careers.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 12:11 PM (eDfFs)

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Scorsese directed The Aviator, though Mann was attached to the project for a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

343 I can drive 10 minutes east and experience a 20 degree shift in temperature.

You have suffered long enough. Temperature Equity Now!

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2024 12:12 PM (Ag3aL)

344 318
‘ I see your Markie Post post (YouTube)

https://tinyurl.com/3cskfn9t ’

That queer strangled Markie Post!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 30, 2024 12:13 PM (wRDx+)

345 Moron Analyst, sorry, nah, not even close. All the trivial and temporary changes man makes are, when seen in proper context (billions of years), just that, trivial and temporary. Eliminating mammal species is a separate thing, not what I was talking about. Of course the passenger pigeon is gone. But heavily polluted rivers, deforested areas, usually "restore" themselves (to the extent an ever changing *natural* environment programs them in that direction) when man's interventions end.

See all kinds of insane environmental damage done in the USSR, which cleaned itself up (and still is) starting the moment of the Soviet collapse.

Things like heavy metal pollution in shipyards, or (!!!!) Soviet insanity like putting plutonium tailings in lakes and rivers, are fringe cases, and of course have some staying power (though even most of those won't last long, in planetary terms).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2024 12:13 PM (GcNJ2)

346
It is funny to view the conflating of Michael Mann, "Novel Prize winning 'climate scientist'", with Michael Mann, "I'll film anything you want, as long as I can use my favorite palette, blue", director for film and television.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 30, 2024 12:38 PM (xG4kz)

347 Yes, the Kennedy family with its drug and substance abuse, sexual harassment, stirring up Rosemary's brain with a surgeon's knife, massive infidelity, bootlegging, Papa acting like a douche in WWII, murder, etc.

Wholesome family values.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2024 11:59 AM (kW+z9)

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2024 12:45 PM (iODuv)

348 Key word on the hurricane season thing is "yet." I've got family near the coast in Texas, and grew up in this state, so I'm not going to start yukking it up over their failed predictions until November.

Mother Nature loves to give people a swift, hard kick in the nuts when they're not looking.

But the season is definitely looking good so far, I will admit.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 30, 2024 12:53 PM (Ij2uN)

349 there was no way to even know if there were storms out in the open ocean with sustained winds that warranted being “named.”

Um, we have a couple ten thousand ships crisscrossing the Atlantic every year, and they certainly see stuff that the spotter airplanes could not.

The NOAA has data for Atlantic hurricanes making US landfall all the way back to 1850. Interestingly, the 1970s are the absolute bottom of such activity across the whole record.....which coincidentally is when satellite observations started showing up. Of course everything is going to look wilder - if you start looking from the gutter. What do you suppose is the REAL reason the climatistas want to report from the 1970s (the bottom)?

The NOAA data also show that the 1940s were the absolute peak over the whole data set. Why doesn't anyone want to use the 1940s as their baseline? Is it just because the trend lines all point downhill from there?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 30, 2024 02:32 PM (TOe+Q)

350 50 years of this commie bs and they are still ,lying their asses off to the lemmings.

Posted by: Jane at August 30, 2024 04:42 PM (bXvrr)

351 Gore and DiCaprio should go live on a island together with other Global Warming advocates then the Lord of the Flies syndrome kicks in

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 30, 2024 04:49 PM (wGqjj)

352 Solid, detailed and very informative post - thank you, Buck!

Posted by: Raj at August 30, 2024 06:27 PM (TMIRz)

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