[RoadKingSE]

Would someone please help me understand what it is we've received in exchange for all the billions of taxpayer dollars we've sunk into NASA to keep the Trekkies and Tech Heads entertained for the last 20 years.

[rfp1234]

[VeniVidiVici]

And they still can’t predict tornadoes.

[DungeonMaster]

Global warming to fuel more weather of all kinds. More heat, more cold, more wind, more calm, more rain, more drought. All weather proves global warming, all hail global warming.

[Hacklehead]

Yes, Yes, we’re all going to die. I got the message.

I wish NASA would focus on things like keeping the space shuttles from disintegrating rather than wasting their time on this trash.

[KarlInOhio]

I'm scratching my head about this. The global warming prediction has the greatest temperature increase in nighttime arctic temperatures, while the least change is in tropic daytime temperatures. If the arctic temperatures are closer to the tropic temperatures, it seems like the weather would be LESS severe because the most thunderstorms are caused by large differences between cold and warm areas.

[spunkets]

"Global warming will make severe thunderstorms and tornadoes a more common feature of U.S. weather, NASA scientists said today."

Some may have said this, but they are just alarmists. Tornados, and the thunderstorms that they result from, derive their energy from the average energy of the atmosphere. The average energy of the atmosphere is proportional to the absolute temperature, so any change will be according to the ratio of the 2 temperatures involved.

So for a 1^o change,

T_final/T_initial = 292/291 = 0.0034 = 0.34%

So, 0.34%/^oC is all the extra energy available to do what they claim. That's not a significant increase at all, and it's flat out fraud to claim that it is.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’m starting to think the people that wanted to abolish NASA and put the money into social programs may have had a better idea
/sarc

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Future Headline: Scientists Say Fewer Hurricanes, T-Storms, Tornados Confirm Global Warming. (Omigod, We’re all gonna die.)

[MaxMax]

Normal weather has now become a fear factor of (100).
This is growing old. Hysteria never lasted long in America.

[Pining_4_TX]

I agree! What a waste of our money. How many times can they send that ridiculous Shuttle up just to watch newts breed in space? My husband said they ought to have a rolling money counter on the screen when they launch the thing to show how much it is costing us per second.

Funding time must be coming up again soon, because that is when NASA always releases another dire global warming prediction. It keeps the money flowing from Congress.

[subterfuge]

Would someone please help me understand what it is we've received in exchange for all the billions of taxpayer dollars we've sunk into NASA to keep the Trekkies and Tech Heads entertained for the last 20 years.

Tang.

[listenhillary]

Global warming will make severe thunderstorms and tornadoes a more common feature of U.S. weather, NASA scientists said today.

Cool!

[Dr.Deth]

Let's ask a couple of NASA scientists about this:

[Mike Darancette]

When does the rain of frogs and the plague of locusts start.