Brian Williams Wonders If Tornadoes Caused by ‘Something We Have Done?’
Like clockwork, an unusual weather event occurs and some shallow journalists immediately leap to speculating about global warming – even accusing humankind of causing the event. On Thursday night, looking at the tornadoes across the South, ABC’s Sam Champion ridiculously claimed “everybody is asking if climate change played a role here.” Brian Williams blamed humans: “What's going on here? Is this something we have done?”
On the NBC Nightly News, Williams prompted Greg Forbes of the Weather Channel:
Let's be candid here. When you and I go home, you see friends and family, you get e-mail from people you know. People ask the same question: What's going on here? Is this something we have done? What has happened to the climate because it seems so much of what we cover is relentless weather-related tragedy?
Forbes skirted around Williams’ silliness:
Yeah, it really has been a remarkable April, certainly a record April. It may be the most tornadic month of any month on record. It certainly, the atmosphere has been in a frenzy. The jet stream just keeps blasting across the country, and then the warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico just keeps feeding the instability and so we’ve had tornado after tornado...
Champion, on ABC’s World News, conceded there’s no substantiation to the speculation:
You know, all winter long, Diane, we've been talking about the fact that the leaky Arctic fence, that unusual cold polar air, the melting sea ice, the thing is, there's no coordinated effort to study what that looks like on climate change compared to severe weather, so we don't know the answer to that.
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Not Us Brian . . . .
Submitted by Bourbeau on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 7:26am.
You! You and your self-serving peers - exposing us to way too many decades of gaseous b/s that emanates from your studios every single night; give it rest Stupid!
The Technical Details:
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:51am.
When lies, gibberish, propaganda, chaotic nonsequiturs, distortions etc are converted into electromagnetic waves, these waves contain anomalous aberrations. When the waves are broadcast they cause instabilities in the upper, warm, humid atmosphere. The instabilities trigger a collapse of the heavy atmosphere spawning tornadoes.
How can we help? Brian Williams can personally help by quitting his show and turning the cameras on a fish tank. The rest of us can help by driving more because Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric stabilizer.
Brian Williams is an
Submitted by Giygas on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:05pm.
Brian Williams is an excellent news reporter, not taking sides with one political party.
Who do you think is better than Brian Williams? The thugs on the talk radio cesspool?
Giygas---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:22pm.
You are indeed a hoot.
Dumb; but a hoot.
MD
Giygas drank the Kool-Aid
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 10:43am.
"Brian Williams is an excellent news reporter, not taking sides with one political party."
Either you are lying or seriously delusional.
Found this link on Drudge...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 7:29am.
"Sorry, Al..."
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
1974: 148 tornadoes in 13 states in 18 hours, April 3-4
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 7:51am.
315 dead. 600 million in damage.
Did we cause that Brian?
Wasn't global cooling all the rage then?
Yeah, I survived some tornado
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:27am.
Yeah, I survived some tornado direct hits back when I was a kid in 1974 living in the Mississippi Delta (northwest Mississippi). Scariest things I've ever encountered.
Everyone's asking?
Submitted by averageschmoe on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 7:54am.
Code words for "We in the Liberal Elite Media are asking"
I don't know one person that mentioned Global Warming or Climate Change in association with the Tornadoes.
Oh please
Submitted by RightWinger on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 7:57am.
Fools like these never seem to mention that these types of events, have happened in the past and will happen again in the future. Watch if / when, God forbid, the big Earthquake hits California. The one that experts have been saying will probably happen in the near future. Brian and his band of Regressives will be out in full force blaming such an event on man and that only if we had listened to Rev Al Gore and not elected those evil Republicans, the whole disaster could have been averted.
I'd also like to ask Brian why the planet Mars one minute will be calm and then the next will have a massive wind / dust storm that covers half the planet. Happened in the past and will happen again in the future. But should we blame that on man because we happened to land a couple of spacecraft on the planet?
The ego.....
Submitted by Spoker on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:05am.
It is simply amazing the ego of the MSM and Enviro sudo-science movement to believe that they, or any human for matter, have the power and influence to change or control mother nature and the weather. What is next? Lead to gold? Water to oil? Rocks to loaves? How about political greed and corruption to responsibility and honesty?
The Life of Brian
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:10am.
More from that king of comedy, Brian Williams!
Today, Brian asks the question, "Do these tornadoes make us look like God?"
Background music is Karen Carpenter "Calling occupants of Inter-planetary crafts"
OK. So, Williams has he
Submitted by jdhawk on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:10am.
OK. So, Williams has he favorite global warming jokes. Here is a few of mine:
"NASA just released their new report on global warming or, as President Bush, calls it -- Spring." --Jay Leno
"Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film actually features Al Gore and explores his journey on how he first got interested in temperature change. It started back when he was vice president. He noticed how the temperature would change, like whenever Bill would walk into the room, it would get warm and whenever Hillary walked into the room, it got cold." --Jay Leno
"According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is bogus. The other 15% work for the White House." --Jay Leno
"According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet." --Jay Leno
Oldest Trick
Submitted by dan iroticiv on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:15am.
The oldest marketing trick in the book that is the most annoying. "Everybody" is (asking, watching, thinking etc)
Please conservatives/republicans call these people out on their bias. Why do think Trump has resonated with the public, he is not polite, he pulls no punches, he says what he wants, and doesn't care if he is labeled a nut, a birther, an extemist by these hypocritical phonies pretending to be journalist.
maybe he was referring
Submitted by theduck6 on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:15am.
to God punishing us like he "did in Haiti". No?
Brian rushed from covering the Royal Wedding to be here.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:32am.
“Our NBC News staff in London was just awakening to the news from home,” writes Williams on his blog. “Minutes later, NBC News President Steve Capus made the call: He said I should go home. We both agreed the tragedy would dominate our newscast and our coverage.”
Also: “I never got to see our infrastructure in London,” writes Williams, “or any of my colleagues beyond the confines of my car. We had a magnificent setup — the result of months of planning — to cover the big day in London, and we still will, live and wall-to-wall. But for now, for us, for this story, one of us had to go back and lead a separate coverage team—as the death toll grows.” (http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbcs-brian-williams-returns-to-u-s-f...)
THANK GOD! How many more would have died if Williams had not returned!
How many would had been saved
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:44am.
Had he never went? Guess we will never know.
Many, I am sure.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:52am.
Many.
I think we've found a new way to spell
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:07am.
"narcissist".
Well, the large population gives a much larger target.......
Submitted by merly1 on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:41am.
especially with trailer parks and the like. Clearly, we have presented Mother Nature with a "target rich environment." Perhaps, that is what the Brian "owebama lapdog" Williams was thinking..............it still cracks me up that Jimmy Fallon (Jimmy Fallon!) was ripping on Obama's Marie Antoinette behavior, and Williams was straining to defend THE ONE on late night TV.
Couric, Williams, and Sawyer really have destroyed the institution of the evening news.
Exactly, Whiche.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:12am.
I heard some "newsperson" blabbering last year about how we seem to be having more and more tornados every year. He had a meteorologist tornado expert on to back him up, apparently. It didn't go as planned.
When he asked the expert the "money question," the expert said that actually the average number of tornados touching down from year to year was pretty consistent for the past 100 years.
When the reporter said how much more damage there was, the expert pointed out what should have been intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. He said that every year we keep building a lot more stuff in the paths of the tornados, and that the costs of damages would continue to rise as we continued to build more stuff!
As John Wayne said, "life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."
Tornadoes are a bitch, as are hurricanes, earthquakes, fire, flood, mud slides, and war. It's called life. I've been in all of them at least once, and they all get your attention. They aren't anyone's fault (except the war part) but they are our problem. It's a shame that people die, or suffer huge financial losses, but it happens. It's not someone else's problem to fix. It is each of our responsibilities to handle it the best we can.
My sympathy to everyone affected by the recent storms. I was lucky this time. I hope you are in the future if not this time.
Which one is it?
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:46am.
So, was this Brian Williams the "untapped comedic genius," the supposed serious journalist or the presidential jock-sniffer-in-chief? Hard to tell. They all sound about the same.
So, wait, now isolated
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:48am.
So, wait, now isolated examples of weather are examples of Global Warming...er... Climate Change? It's so hard to keep track of the rules.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Did he ask...
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:50am.
...the same dumb questions when Orlando, where I live, had 11 tornadoes in a matter of hours one night in February 1998?
I don't know about that, but
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:41am.
I don't know about that, but the Deland tornado of 2007 was blamed on Global Warming.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Perhaps we put Satan
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:25am.
in the White House.
BINGO!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:44am.
We have a winner at Table 6!
Table 666?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:33am.
Table 666?
Yes, they're due to something we've done.
Submitted by dmntd1 on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 9:45am.
It's God's creation, screaming at us to return to Him. We've left Him, ignored Him, and generally become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. God is using his creation to remind us that He is the only rock, on which we should build our lives.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
You are asking the wrong person, Brian.
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:03am.
You need to get on your knees and ask God that question.
Amen!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:46am.
.
Say Amen again, cowboy!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:21am.
Don't I remember Bambi's preacher, the Rev Wright, saying something like "GOD DAMN AMERICA!"
Maybe he and Bambi are getting their wish.
Amazing how our president showed more sympathy for the "prisoners" at Gitmo than he does for the victims of natural disasters in this country, unless ,of course, he could hang the disaster around Bush's neck.
IS BRIAN WILLIAMS TED BAXTER OR KENT BROCKMAN?
Submitted by Sgthulka on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:11am.
Discuss among yourselves.
Pleeeeeze!!!
Submitted by tulsatammy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:44am.
I have lived in Oklahoma for all of my 46 years and although quite sad that so many people died, this weather pattern is NORMAL! Thankfully, we now have better warning systems than we did when I was a child in the 70's and several large tornadoes hit the Tulsa area.
Please expend all remaining tornadoes
Submitted by Master-of-Disaster on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 2:41pm.
Please expend all remaining tornadoes before I come to Tulsa in June. Thanks. Too funny, I just commented on a story about tornadoes.....teh he.
Anything at all.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:46am.
to distract attention from the Marxist-In-Chief.
Better keep an eye on these
Submitted by forest on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:10am.
Better keep an eye on these kooks. they are liable to start throwing babies down volcanoes because they think Mother Gaia is angry with them.
Statistics Class
Submitted by PoolPlayer on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:20am.
Brian is such a studious dude . Statistics test answer - 'Well it seems like we've done more weather related stories recently' so .... Grade 'F'!
Weather or not ...
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:21am.
It's not that there are more weather events to report, it's just that there is 24-hour news now and there are more reports on the weather.
Are ALL "journalists" that stupid?
Something we've done?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:57am.
Well, Brian, if you feel that strongly about it, why not start setting up ritual sacrifices to appease the Gods a la Apocalypto?
Maybe you could sacrifice your wife, or throw your dog into a volcano or offer up your first born?
Maybe you could prostrate(not to be confused with prostate) yourself before an F5 tornado (not using that stupid EF system, it's a joke) and cut yourself to bleed until the tornado turns away?
Wondering if it was caused by "something we've done" makes you a Gaia-ist. That was a really dumbass thing to suggest.
-Jon
Appease Gaia or die!
Submitted by freecitizen on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 1:45pm.
This sounds like a lament of "What have we done to anger the gods?" Gaia worship run wild. If we could only appease gaia and calm her rages. These are the same people that laugh derisively at primitive cultures for thinking the same things. Pseudo-scientific, magical thinking.
An Act of God
Submitted by Master-of-Disaster on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 2:47pm.
As an emergency manager I can honestly say that the claims made by these narcissistic, egomaniacle windbags in the media have no basis or foundation in any facts or science whatsoever. As some of the other posters, I have been in numerous disaster zones. They call it an Act of God for a reason. Nothing puts it in perspective like a tornado, hurricane or earthquake, to show just how puny and insignificant man really is. The only thing that elevates humans at all is the generosity and kindness we show our fellow citizens and even strangers when they are the victims of these events. Then the only warming is of the heartfelt kind.
As John McEnroe famously said, "You can't be serious!"
Submitted by Herbster on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:20pm.
Can anyone actually take this arrogant twit seriously? I'm amazed that he's finally straightened up after bowing to mr. obambi! Maybe he and Ted Koppel should have a competition called an "Arrogant-Off." John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry, aka, "Mr. Ketchup" could be the referree.
What Other Choices Do We Have?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:27pm.
Mother Nature
The Second Coming
Angering the Almighty
uh...
Leftwing Nutjob Conspiracy
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
It's all Bush's fault!
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:34pm.
It's all Bush's fault!
Our sins against mother
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:59pm.
Our sins against mother nature and the anointed one BHO have caused these tornados.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonIs it something we have done?
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 5:26pm.
In another NB blog there is a link to a ThinkProgress article that seems to suggest that the tornadoes targeted states represented by congressional delegations who "deliberately [ignore] the warnings from scientists.
Are the folks over at TP really so callous as to politicize this tragedy and blame the victims? Are they really so stupid as to believe weather patterns actually know about and care what human beings think and believe, and can deliberately punish those who don't think the "right" way?
scripture often warns that
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 5:59pm.
scripture often warns that calamaties will befall the wicked. I don't deny the grain of truth there.
But I don't believe for one moment that this is what libutard Willy-boy meant when he asked the question. When he said 'something we have done', his tiny libutard brain was firmly glued to 'global warming'.
Williams v. weather
Submitted by sarge329 on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 8:50pm.
Mr. Williams. If I may, I'd like to take a few seconds to explain this to you. Mankind is not, repeat, not responsible for " climate change " . How, you ask, can I be so sure? Simple, I reply. Man is, inherently, a troublemaker. It's easy to screw things up. It's much, much harder to do things right. One pistol shot started WW1. Look how many lives were spent to end it. Look, on the other hand, at the Sistine Chapel. Think of all the backbreaking toil it took to create that. If a man, or group of men, had found a way to influence weather, they would be doing so. And extortion on a global scale would be the name of the game. Since you aces in the newsroom haven't discovered that yet, I think it's safe to say it hasn't happened. The weather has been changing LONG before man was a blip on Earth's radar screen. For an example of " climate change " , let us look at the years 2000-2007. Each year had a temperature gain of 1 degree for a net gain of 7 degrees in those 7 years. In 2008, we lost 7 degrees in one year for a net gain of 0. That's ZERO degrees. It leveled off. It's called, are you ready, weather.
It very well could be...............
Submitted by Patriot II on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:54am.
Something you have done..........you have taken God out of govt, schools, offices, everywhere....and now he has just taken his hand of protection off America......."If my people , who are called by my name, will humble themselves and seek my face, then will I hear from Heaven and heal their land"!
Axe Larry O'Donnell, Brian...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:02pm.
...he has suddenly become a biblical scholar...
Didn't Pat Robertson say the
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:11pm.
Didn't Pat Robertson say the same thing about Katrina and get berated my the MSM??
Reactionary AGW alarmists say the Earth is warming abnormally?
Submitted by Retired Geek on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:55am.
This begs the question: 'Exactly what is the ideal, normal or 'Base' temperature of the Earth'?
How can anyone tell if the Earth is warming or cooling until the base temperature of the Earth is known?
The Earth could simply be returning to a 'Base' temperature of approximately 1000 years ago when Greenland was a farming community and Scotland was growing wine grapes.
Should the 'Base' temperature be the same as approximately 300 years ago when Greenland became uninhabitable because of icing and extreme low temperatures and the Thames river iced over?
Should the 'Base' temperature be the same as 829 A.D., when the Nile froze over?
Until anyone has a legitimate claim that the Earth is NOT returning to its 'Base Temperature', shouldn't they know what the 'Normal Temperature' is supposed to be?
'Exactly what is the ideal, normal or 'Base' temperature of the Earth'?
The ancient Mayans
Submitted by Mike009 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:31am.
A thousand years ago when there was a cold summer or a poor harvest, the ancient Mayans believed they had offended the gods, and would throw a virgin into a volcano to appease them. Modern environmentalists (and Brian Williams) apparently share similar beliefs with the ancient Mayans. But instead of sacrificing a virgin, they want to sacrifice our standard of living.