Diane Sawyer Uses Wind Disaster to Hype Global Warming: 'Weather Gone Wild'
World News' Diane Sawyer on Monday hyped a disaster at a rock concert in Indianapolis as an example of "weather gone wild" and linked it to global warming. Hyperbolically connecting the tragedy to other weather events, she proclaimed, "Something strange going on around the globe."
The anchor teased the segment by warning, "And tonight, the weather gone wild. Winds that come out of nowhere. Floods swelling streets. Heat breaking records in all 50 states. Snow where it hasn't fallen in decades." The program also hid the identity of a global warming activist. [See correction below.]
[See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Reporter Jim Avila covered the deaths of five people in Indianapolis due to freak wind causing a stage to collapse. He suggested they might be connected to climate change: "But, is it related to the heat around the globe?"
The journalist featured a clip of Heidi Cullen, who ABC simply labeled as a "climatologist." She announced, "When you crank up the heat, when you globally warm the planet, you're going to see more extreme events." [08-17-11 Correction: ABC did have the words "Climate Central" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Though, the network did not offer any explanation of the group's advocacy.]
Yet, Cullen is also the communications director for Climate Central, a group dedicated to "helping mainstream Americans understand how climate change connects to them, and arming our audiences with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about their future."
Avila made no mention of her advocacy on this topic. Yet, on May 23, 2011, in another World News piece by Avila, the network did identify Cullen's connection. (She also touted climate change as host of a now-defunct show on the Weather Channel.)
In that World News segment, Sawyer saw tornadoes as examples of climate change. She worried, "this is the evidence of a kind of preview of life under global warming?"
On July 23, 2010, ABC reporter Jon Karl ambushed Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, a global warming skeptic, and attempted to suggest that heat in the summer was evidence of climate change.
A transcript of the August 15 segment, which aired at 6:31pm EDT, follows:
DIANE SAWYER: And tonight, the weather gone wild. Winds that come out of nowhere. Floods swelling streets. Heat breaking records in all 50 states. Snow where it hasn't fallen in decades. Something strange going on around the globe.
6:31
SAWYER: As we begin this week, the weather across America has forecasters ripping up the record books. Stunning extremes tonight from coast to coast. And we are going to tell you what we have learned today about the freakish wind that hit the Indiana state fair. The wind that did not even show up on radar. More on that in a moment. But is it related to the heat around the globe? The heat so powerful, the Arctic sea ice is melting away, leaving the smallest amount of July ice at the pole since they started keeping track more than 30 years ago. To begin it all tonight, here's ABC's Jim Avila.
JIM AVILA: From the mid-Atlantic to New England, buckets of rain, a record ten inches fell on New York's Long Island yesterday.
MAN: It's been wicked. We've been trying to get around all day. You can't get nowhere.
AVILA: If this was January, that storm would have dumped nine feet of snow. Instead, the north east flooding.
SECOND MAN: We've had rain. We've had flooding, but never anything that looks like this, no.
AVILA: Never had anything like this heat either. Triple digits across Texas again today. Halfway through August, 5,000 heat records have been broken across the country. Every state in the U.S. set a heat record, all 50. Waco hit 100 for the 63rd time this year, tying an all-time record. It was nature from another angle in Indianapolis over the weekend, straight-line winds, unseen on radar, out of nowhere, hit 70 miles per hour, knocked down the concert stage, killing five.
THIRD MAN: That is a monster tornado.
AVILA: A summer of extremes. Tornadoes in Massachusetts. Dust storms in Phoenix. And this weekend, Wellington, New Zealand, of all places, got its first snowfall in 35 years. What is going on?
HEIDI CULLEN (Climatologist): When you crank up the heat, when you globally warm the planet, you're going to see more extreme events.
AVILA: How is this for extreme? The arctic sea ice is at its smallest ever. While globally, July was the seventh warmest ever. Making the drought in Texas easier to explain. 75 percent of America's second largest state, bone dry. Kemp, Texas' water tanks ran dry for days and farmers all across the southern tier are suffering. Crops from corn to soybeans are dying on the vine. And soon prices on vegetables and beef are expected to climb.
GERALD NELSON (International Food Policy Research Institute): Every farmer in the world will be affected by climate change one way or the other.
SAWYER: So, Jim, you say soon the prices will begin to rise. How soon?
AVILA: Well, hit hardest is corn and soybean. That's all the way from breakfast cereal to steaks. And that could start happening as soon as fall, certainly six months by now.
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Dumb dumb
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:36pm.
Dumb dumb dumb................but typical in it's stupidity. Actually, my older brother lives in New Zealand, and he emailed me about the snow flurries. I asked him what they called it 35 years ago, BEFORE 'global warming'.........
AGW brings snow to NZ (oh my!)
Submitted by Rackie on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:43pm.
"The wintry blast is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime event, bringing snow to the capital city of Wellington and as far north as the Auckland region for the first time since the 1970s.
Snow actually settled on the ground in downtown Auckland reported IOL news. According to the New Zealand Herald, downtown Auckland last witnessed accumulating snow in 1939. The city also recorded its lowest daily high temperature since official records began there in 1961. On Monday, the temperature only rose to 8.2 C (47 F), breaking the previous record low maximum of 8.7 C set in July 1996. Average high/low temperatures for the city are about 59/45 F even during the second-coldest month of the year."
"Auckland last witnessed accumulating snow in 1939"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:51pm.
So we can assume that this ain't the first time it's happened, right? I'd even be willing to bet that it's not just the second time in the history of the world either.
Stuff happens, and there is damned little that we humans can do about it.
Wonder how many carbon emitting vehicles were...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:25pm.
...around back then, as compared to now.
How many humans and animals were exhaling carbon dioxide then as compared to now?
Then there was WW2..........
It's official.
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:48pm.
The MSM is staffed by complete wackos.
Odd
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:50pm.
Something strange sure is going on, there are still people who support Obama.
They are really starting to look ridiculous. How stupid do they
Submitted by Lipton on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:53pm.
think we Americans are? Everything is somehow related to global warming.
If tornados are a result of global warming, we better start snatching up and burning those copies of the Wizard of Oz, since that was filmed in the 30s.
Nothing like deaths from a
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:56pm.
Nothing like deaths from a natural disaster to use as props for socialist junk science.
Yeah, you'd think that there
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:24pm.
Yeah, you'd think that there would be some kind of 'upside' for these guys............since it happened at a state fair, probably being visited by 'bitter clingers who hold onto their religion and their guns'.........and also , there was a country band just about to play, and we know that those country bands aren't Obama fans. Now........if they could only get something like this to happen at a NASCAR event!!!
heat breaking records
Submitted by caveman1313 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:08pm.
in all 50 states?
really?
here in oregon we may have the first summer in 137 years with no temp in the 90s.
i haven't used my AC system yet this summer. i had to cut back on the amount of watering for my lawn as it was getting very soggy.
somehow i don't think that qualifies as the heat breaking records they are inferring.
Well, I’m just surprised…
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:18pm.
...She isn’t bemoaning the lack of great surfing conditions on Lake Erie!
- Grump :o)
Unfortunaly, Grumps, the
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:30pm.
Unfortunaly, Grumps, the professional surfing tour and industry is VERY PC.........I was watching a contest a couple of weeks ago on TV (replay at night), and the announcers were talking about 'global warming' and 'climate change'.......and even asking some of the pros about it. I was waiting for some pro with some balls to call BS on the whole thing.........but they've got to be loyal to their sponsers.
But the ironic thing is - these guys travel millions of miles every year on airplanes, and also take a lot of boat trips,and they drive their jetskis all over the place, and surfboards (like car batteries..........for all of you electric car proponents) are made from some of the most UN-'green friendly' material in the known universe!!! And they go through these boards like there's no tomorrow. The whole thing is just a big fallacy.........but if you tell them, they'll come up with some excuse. One pro was actually bragging about some 'carbon tax' that has just been initiated in Australia!!!
Maybe New Zealand is getting snow because they' haven't bought enough 'carbon credits'???
Thanks Killa!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:55pm.
I didn't know any of that about the surfing industry, but it goes to show you what "talking a good game" is all about: "Keeping the sponsors happy!"
- Grump :o)
She may be right, you know
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:19pm.
I heard that prior to the industrial revolution, wind speeds never got above 6mph in Indiana. Ever, ever.
Who said that??? The
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:31pm.
Who said that??? The Indians???
BK, I’m LOL!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:31pm.
I’ve “got your back” on this one! My study of tree rings from South Pacific Coconut Palms, confirms that wind speeds never reached above 5 m.p.h anywhere in North America prior to Columbus discovering the New World!
- Grump :o)
Spooky
Submitted by jaywl on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:29pm.
I'm telling you something really spooky is going on. Wind where there was none only minutes before. Droplets of liquid hydrogen (in close proximity to oxygen) coming from menacing gas clouds over populated areas. Unseen radiation that has built up in the past months enough to cause skin to burn. Like that guy said at OJ's trial: Something strange going on here!
Climategater
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 1:40pm.
Sawyer thinks the movie "Waterworld" is a documentary.
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
climategater
Submitted by nanabanana on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 4:22pm.
I REALLY wish we had a 'like' button! :-)
OK, so now weather is climate
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:22pm.
OK, so now weather is climate instead of weather? I get so confused on whether weather is weather or climate. Oh course the factor that determines the difference is whether or not the weather impacts Al Gore's bank account.
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Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Criminal charges to the scientists PLEASE?
Submitted by mememine69 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:40pm.
Belief in Climate Change crisis from Human CO2 condemned billions to a "death by CO2" for 25 years, mostly just to get the kids to turn the lights out more often. Now who's scientifically illiterate red-necked-fear mongering neocon? Letting carbon trading markets and corporations and politicians manage the temperature of the planet was not responsible environmentalism.
Here is proof the scientists exaggerated and exploited climate change; every one of the thousands of scientists all had their own special and unique view of climate change. See for yourself as even every science organization has a different take. That wasn’t honest science, it was a consultant’s w%t-dream and the new denier is anyone who still thinks the former believers of climate change that form the majority you see before you, will somehow now vote YES to taxing the air to make the weather colder.
Meanwhile, the UN, the media, academia and progressivism and the entire SCIENCE world had allowed carbon trading stock markets run by corporations and politicians to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 25 years of climate CONTROL instead of the obviously needed POPULATION control.
Criminal charges?
Submitted by mandrake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:54pm.
I read your entire post..no illegal activity there..it's more of a debate..you do believe in free speech don't you? I think there is some amendment about that.
The First Amendment
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:04pm.
The First Amendment doesn't protect you from committing fraud. Also, as we've been reminded again and again over the last few years, the "debate" is over.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Fraud?
Submitted by mandrake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:13pm.
I'm no lawyer, but I suspect there is more to commiting fraud than simply not knowing what you are talking about. I almost never know what I'm talking about.
Yes, fraud
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:24pm.
Yes, Fraud, as these people are "experts" who are supposed to know what they are "talking about" yet still willfully promote a false assertion. They knowing, willfully promote this false assertion by excluding any data which would tend to negate that premiss, falsify other data in order to "prove" that false assertion, manipulate "projections" base upon that falsified data, and present it to the public as "facts," "facts" that are then used to manipulate public perceptions and, therefor, public behaviors. They're lying to us in order to get us to do what they want. If that's not fraud, then fraud doesn't exist at all.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Legal leg to stand on
Submitted by mandrake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:30pm.
So I guess you who believe these 'experts' are guilty of fraud will be filling a class action suit soon. Can't wait to see against whom and the results.
Fraud is a criminal offence
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:47pm.
Fraud is a federal criminal offense, and it's up to the various federal Attorney Generals to file those charges. I'm not an AT, so my chances of filing fraud charges against anyone is zero.
As far as civil (class-action) lawsuits are concerned, I don't have to actually prove fraud, I only have to prove that damages occurred to myself and others.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
So do you believe that?
Submitted by mandrake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:56pm.
Do you believe the scientist who promote the theory of AGW are guilty of fraud? And if you do believe they have damaged you and others..then do something about it.
I am doing something about it
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 4:21pm.
I am doing something about it. I'm making my views known in a public forum, as well as privately with the people I converse with every day. It's a lot cheaper than trying to ligate a class-action lawsuit, and probably far more effective. You see, I'm not looking to make money. If I can change just one person's mind about the false "reality" of "AGW," then I consider that a great victory.
I don't believe a battle of ideas, of opinions, should be fought in a court room. It should be fought in the public and private discussions between the people who have opposing ideas. Ideas, and the beliefs that are formed by those ideas, can not be changed in a court battle. They can only be changed in a frank, honest, and open discussion.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Don't forget
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 4:45pm.
Don't forget the market. Like that stupid light bulb ban and then forcing people to buy those poisonous curly-bulbs, just let the people decide which lights they want to use in their house.
People should be given a choice and if they want to not buy those stupid bulbs, they should be left damned well alone.
I should add the so-called green technology, which is being decided by the markets, just last night, there was a place that shut down and was one of Soetoro's pet projects. There are others being shut down because there just isn't enough market interest in that, just like electric cars.
Instead, we have the federal government wanting to tax the crap out of coal companies and others as a way of forcing people away from it. That's just one example.
-Jon
Already stocking up
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 4:55pm.
I'm already stocking up on incandescent bulbs. That law isn't going to affect me much at all. Beside, it'll be repealed soon enough. And those increased taxes Obama wishes to impose on energy companies? That'll never happen. It's just rhetoric designed to placate his liberal base who, it seems, isn't falling for it anymore. He know that this type of tax increase will never pass Congress. Just like his "tax the richest" proposals, it's never going to happen, at least not until the economy improves greatly, something that isn't going to happen at any time during the Obama administration. If it was going to happen, it would have happened already when the Democrats had majority control over Congress.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
How dumb can they be?
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:57pm.
"Winds that come out of nowhere."
Are they anything like these winds?
"The wind that did not even show up on radar."
Since when does wind ever "show up on radar?" Weather radar doesn't detect air, it detects water in the form of precipitation! That's what they're designed to do! That's why radar never "detects" the straight-line winds that normally precedes rainfall during large thunderstorms. Nor does it detect the winds that always accompanies a "shear-line front,' the extremely turbulent boundary between stationary air masses of differing pressures and humidity, which is what the concert-goers experienced, as any competent weatherman could tell you. Next time, I suggest Diane talk to an actual weatherman before consulting with a "climatologist."
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Meteorologist Rosie O'Donnell- Global Warming Causes Tornadoes
Submitted by HollyW on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:24pm.
More and more Hollywood celebrities are taking their science backgrounds into research labs where they spend hours monitoring and analyzing weather patterns. According to the Daily Rash, meteorologist Rosie O'Donnell recently concluded years of research that confirms this summer's tornadoes were caused by global warming. http://www.thedailyrash.com/meteorologist-rosie-odonnell-says-deadly-tor...
before algore invented
Submitted by SouthJersey1953 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:30pm.
There was no such thing as high winds or a wind storm before algore invented global warming....(please ignore all of the wind storms that occurred prior to 1990)
Not to mention, ignore
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:45pm.
all of the fluctuations in temperature over the last 100 or 200 years, however long temps were actually measured. I'm sure the folks at East Anglia went back in their way-back machine and measured temps for 4-5-or 6 thousand years, but, I think I'll go with what's been actually recorded and reported.
LIke, the temps and the winds, during the Dust Bowl. Ooops, I forgot to ignore those winds, like South Jersey counseled. I hope algore can overlook my mistake.
Diane Sawyer - Record high in all 50 states, my ***.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 5:14pm.
Hmm. Like a record high of 79 degrees in Seattle, WA. Hang on - but the record high for Seattle is 94 degrees.
Compliments of KOMONews.com:
And here's another record for Diane Sawyer. I've considered her a liar more times today, than on any other day in the past week, or so.
And about the bit that no one saw that wind on radar?? Must have been a stealth wind.
Oh, help us all.
(;~> gary
(;~> gary
"fluke" weather events
Submitted by deadeyedan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 5:52pm.
The wind gust WAS visible on radar as seen here (watch for a thin blue line oriented upper right/lower left soon after precipitation mass [green, yellow, orange, red] enters from upper left and travels toward lower right):
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/indianapolis-t...
This is an outflow boundary that in some instances, common enough not to be called a fluke, will travel well ahead of the main thunderstorm base. But how many people know that?
In so many situations the rain shafts practically have to be upon the scene before high winds are felt, so people can be caught off guard. The writer of this editorial is right about the timing of the watch and the warning, but as much as the warning specified times of communities being struck it does not specify Indianapolis itself for some odd reason.
There was a similar situation about fifteen years ago at a Taste of Chicago event when all heck broke loose without warning to the attendees but at least there was nothing on the grounds substantial enough to cause much injury when the relatively flimsy tents/canopies collapsed.
And back in August of '08 there was a dramatic scene at Wrigley Field when fans and players were warned of an impending storm and for the most part they took cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIGLMCkiYYI&feature=related
But in that case both the watch and the warning were specifically stated as "PDS", Particularly Dangerous Situation, a step above what Indiana officials had to work with. It seems to me that, given the very graphic depiction of the narrative provided by the editorial concerning what weathermen were looking at that a PDS qualifier would have been warranted here as well.
Well, despite the intensity of the Wrigley Field storm, the Cubs still couldn't win that night.
Global warming - authoritarian, rather than authoritative, science - deadeyedan
ClimateGate - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution - deadeyedan
Dust storms in Phoenix? Oh my...IT'S A DESERT!
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 6:22pm.
Just like a lot of Texas gets hot in the middle of summer.
It's wintertime in New Zealand and Indiana is in the middle of Tornado Alley.
Anything else the ABC (all brainless chattering) brain trust wants to know?
Uugghh!
Submitted by Nonanon on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 8:03pm.
It gets more difficult every day to listen to these liberals. They are getting farther and farther from truth and reality with each thing they spew! If this stage had not been set up and thus available to be blown down, who would have known this 'radar evading' wind would have occurred? NO ONE! It is horrible what happened and the families of the victims are in our thoughts for what they are going through. But to present this as if the weather/climate targeted this event is idiocy.
It occurred to me some years ago that the storms are not getting worse but rather there are more people in the storm path to be hurt or killed and more stuff to be damaged or destroyed. 100, 200, 500, 1000 or more years ago nowhere near as many people or things existed to be impacted by severe weather. Yet this very simple concept apparently never enters their head. We never hear them question the foolishness other liberals put forth. Liberalism demands you blindly follow the indoctrination. (Could we label that 'submission'??? That ought to frighten them...) And then they keep throwing out the idea that their position is science. The only science it is is bad science.
Um, Diane, you may want to
Submitted by joeschmo1 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 8:35pm.
Um, Diane, you may want to check your facts again. First of all, a radar DOES NOT see wind. A radar picks up precipitation. Where did you get this ridiculous information?????
Again, journalists commenting and reporting on things they know nothing about. I guess those great floods, storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc...that happened years and years ago were caused by humans. NOT.
"Correction"
Submitted by deadeyedan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 9:06pm.
To jtepe65, you may want to check my post at 5:52 concerning detectability of wind on radar. Radar is much better these days at picking up features than in days of yore.
One of the "unintended consequences" of the green gang is radar interference because of wind farms.
One relatively recent advance enabled weathermen to have radar calculate precipitation amounts, but wind farms exaggerate the amount at their locations without providing an appreciable amount of power.
Thus a resource used to study climate trends is interrupted by something that is supposedly mitigating a climate calamity.
Liberalism - government of the people by the theories and for the ideologists - deadeyedan
You're are a propagandist
Submitted by hayate1 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:38am.
They did clearly place a caption stating who that guest was and what org she was from.
If it is not climate change made worse by humans, then what is causing this unprecedented extreme weather?
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Hot air from---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:47am.
sh*t heads like you.
'You're are' a fool.
MD
I are NOT...........m-double
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:54am.
I are NOT...........m-double T-d-diggity-dog!!!
'Unprecedented extreme
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:53am.
'Unprecedented extreme weather'??? Compared to what??? How long has the weather been around, as compared to men who kept tabs on in??? Did the dinasaurs complain about 'extreme weather"??? What about cavemen?? Hell, what about the American Indians?? I"m sure they've seen good winters, bad winters, hot summers, cool summers............they even had some Indian summers!!!
And if some weather pattern is the 'first is X number of years'.........or 'breaks an 80 year old record'........or whatever, then where were the ALGORES and the other 'global warming/climate change' scammers of THAT era???
And if you think you're the cause of 'climate change', since you're a human............you are quite welcome to take the advice that the kook from the Daily Kos gave out last week.
"Unprecedented" "Extreme?" Since when?
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 1:20am.
The explanation is simple: natural variations in a dynamic, changing environment.
The Earth has seen the global climate go from the hothouse of the Carboniferous period to the icebox of the ice ages and back again. It has seen wind speeds vary from a simple breeze to winds over 130 miles an hour. It has seen the oceans rise and fall, continents combine and break apart, air and sea currents form and dissipate. It has seen massive rainforests turn into vast deserts, only to be covered with the ocean, rise up out of the water, turn back into rain forests, and then revert to deserts yet again. It has seen every type of "weather" and "climate" imaginable, again and again and again. Just how is today's weather, today's climate, any more "unprecedented" or "extreme' than similar weather patterns and climates in the earth's past?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Well, Cobra...........to a
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 1:53am.
Well, Cobra...........to a lib, history - and all they need to know - starts from the day they decided to pay attention, and is only relevant to what they have in their delusional peabrains.