The Dread Among Pariahs

Accuweather’s chief meteorologist Joe Bastardi discusses our inability to cause global warming and some of the politics and unscientific thinking behind the GW theory.  Oh yeah, and Joe thinks it’s starting to get a little cooler.

The cut is pretty long but Accuweather is behind a paywall so I borrowed a good chunk for your reading pleasure.

However the dread among pariahs like me of ice not fire as the eventual CORRECT reason climate wise for making sure we have other sources of energy besides oil, has three major components. The difference of course to you an me is 1.2 trillion dollars ( CBO estimate) of what it will cost to combat something we need not combat at all, and even if we did do it, make no difference at all. The fact is the earth now, if we look at temps through the last 10,000 years is pretty close to normal and no where near as warm as it has been at other times. And the folks trying to rewrite the record to justify their ideas should automatically be suspected as trying to fit the facts to there ideas even if its a square peg in the round circle. Greenland for instance, is supposed to have major amounts of oil and coal under its ice cap. Well riddle me this batman, How did any of it get there at all if Greenland werent at one time not only green, but tropical with the life that could die, and then develop into this type of deposit. An inconvenient truth to people who think humans control the earths atmosphere or any part of nature.

The Chilean volcano may or may not have an effect on the enso, that will have to be looked at when we see how much and what kind of ash spreads out., However the bigger question may be is this the start of increased volcanic activity. The triple whammy of natural turn around as a simply reaction to the warming ( my theory is the turn around started earlier than in the last cycle, perhaps making this more like a 25 year cycle than 30-35, simply because we started a bit warmer and the set point of the earth has not really changed in the last 50 years, so in the absence of any reason to get warmer, it has to cool. This assumes of course that outside influence, outside the realm of anything puny little men can do, is the driving force. The culprit that is the most quoted is CO2, which seems overrated since its a) 1 of 32 variables we think can effect climate 2) Is the equal in measure atmospherically as a tile floor in a 100 story building, and 3) though “recycled” by man, is of the earth. This as opposed to sunlight which is an outside source of energy.

Now the triple whammy has to do with sunlight and the amount that reaches earth In times of high solar constants, it stands to reason there is more. Yes these things are small but over a period of time on a black body it mounts up. The threat of us gong into a period of relative solar mins ( the most recent, correlated nicely with the last cold period on earth a few hundred years ago. There is plenty of thought that the overall ramp up that has occurred is about to reverse

Talking About Tornados

On May 27, 1997, I was driving from Uvalde, Texas to San Antonio. To the North, there was a line of severe storms that were visible during the whole trip. In Texas, you can see for miles and identify separate supercells clearly on the horizon.

By the time I got to San Antonio, the storms had hit. I never saw so much lightning. The next day, I drove up I-35 back to Dallas. The news reports were filled with reports of a massive tornado that ripped through the town of Jarrell.

Jarrell happened to be right off of I-35, so I took the exit to see for myself. There were news media all over the place and EMS personnel centered in one area that looked like a big, brown empty field. There was really nothing to see but a few downed trees and torn up livestock fence. The road leading into the field area had torn up pavement. In the distance I could see some EMS and police vehicles in the middle of the barren landscape.

The “field” actually used to be a subdivision known as Double Creek Estates, and the reason there was nothing to see was because the F5 tornado had wiped everything clean but the foundations, and even some of them were gone. I’m not talking about “wiped clean” as in piles of debris and rubble, but nothing. Not even debris piles. The tornado went through like a big broom and completely leveled the landscape taking literally everything with it.

The road was torn up because the tornado was so strong that it actually ripped the pavement up from the road. It took nearly every blade of grass with it and even ripped the hairs out of livestock.

Twenty seven people died in Double Creek Estates that day because there was simply nowhere to go. At one point the tornado was a mile wide. It lasted for seven miles.

The tornado started out as a pencil like F1 that seemed relatively harmless for most Texans accustomed to such things. But it quickly intensified. At one point, there were three twisters from the funnel cloud which were captured in a picture referred to as the “devil walking” because it does appear like a man walking across the plains. One eyewitness said that five seconds later, the three twisters had merged into the massive F5 wedge that wiped Double Creek Estates off the map.

The tornado is an interesting study because most tornados move from Southwest to Northeast, but the Jarrell tornado moved from Northeast to Southwest, most likely due to a gravity wave from a system in Oklahoma the day before. Although conditions were favorable that day for tornados in Texas, the intensity was completely unpredicted because the low that initiated the storms was relatively weak. Most experts believe that the gravity wave collided at the optimal moment with the low and the dryline to create the Jarrell disaster.

Jarrell wasn’t the only Texas tornado that day. There were probably a dozen, including one F4.

That night in San Antonio, I felt pretty sure I was going to see one as I could see at least two transformers blow up from my hotel room. But that was apparently caused by microbursts.

Anyway, below is some Jarrell footage. The guy who made this set it to Rob Zombie’s “Blacken The Sun” . You can clearly see the evolution of the storm culled from various footage.

Ruining The Celebration

Peggy Noonan:

The Democratic Party can’t celebrate the triumph of Barack Obama because the Democratic Party is busy having a breakdown. You could call it a breakdown over the issues of race and gender, but its real source is simply Hillary Clinton. Whose entire campaign at this point is about exploiting race and gender.”

What if Trent Lott Said…

What if Trent Lott said:

“”Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

I suspect he would be accused of racism and his party accused of having some discriminatory tactic and using “code words” to win elections.