But, never fear, the GOP has bills in congress to stop NOAA recording and storing weather data. Some will write into law NOAA may not keep temperature records. Sort of like it's a crime to know our own climate history, at least don't write it down. It looks like the GOP will make it easier to buy a gun than a thermometer, the Mexican drug gangs will expand to smuggle barometers and rain gauges?
Yesterday a nuke electric plant on the Tennessee River had to close for the second time due to the river water temperature. At 90°F it is not an efficient coolant. That was not foreseen when they built the plant. Without historical data, how can future builders know of potential summer time shut downs.
In Austin TX, my son reports the ground temperature has climbed so high it heats the city water (in his neighborhood), you cannot get cool water from the tap, all showers are hot. Now thats hot dirt ain't it, would you want to know it gets that hot if you were going to locate a business there?
If the GOP gets their way, they might, restricting scientific information will harm transportation, military, and agriculture, it will harm the nations GPD. We are in a race to the bottom and they grease the slide every day with the darkness of ignorance and the fossil fuel agenda. Shine the light of knowledge under there, I want to see all I can don't you?
About a week ago I had Rush tuned in on the AM radio (I like a good laugh when I'm in our old truck hauling trash to the dumpster) and he was railing about the weather service practice of figuring the "heat index", claimed it was a liberal plot to frighten people about global warming.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Rush likes to cite "chill factors" when disputing said hoax during the winter...
You can't reason or argue with idiots any more than you can teach a pig to whistle. It just wastes your time and annoys the Rush.
Ah come on now...this is a joke...right? RIGHT?
ReplyDeleteSarge, please, don't sugar coat it, just say what you really think.
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ReplyDeleteNo, no joke, so far as I know the reports are true, a number of environmental tree hugger sites are writing on it. I have never found them wrong on the sites I stalk.
I suspect if they can go unchecked long enough they will make it illegal to take the temperature of the TN river, shoot on sight order.
Squatlo;
ReplyDeleteYea rush will declare the next ice age the first snowfall south of the mason dixon line. He does every winter, and his trolls agree because one thing is for sure. You see Squatlo, a little known fact is that the local high school drop outs and guys with business degrees know much much more about the climate, the sun, pollution and historical ice records than scientist who have studied it for years.
If we ignore it, it will go away: The Republican Credo.
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