And this weather has been local. Europe, Asia and Africa aren't having similar disasters now, although they've had their own extreme events in recent years.
Or maybe not.
The derecho is not a freak occurrence. They’ve been happening all along. We now have a word for them.
So this is the big doomsday horror we were warned about?
Here in Melbourne, Australia, we’re told the drought for the past decade was caused by global warming, now we’re receiving massive rain because of global warming
The horrendous wildfires in recent years (since Indonesia which actually darkened the skies around the world) have in many cases been set. Everybody take a wild guess...
I think God is trying to get our attention.
Cold weather is simply weather.
Summer is hot, winter is cold, news at 11! I bet we get extremely temperate weather in the spring and fall! The world is dying!!! The END IS NEAR!!!!!! OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I assume the record snowfall in Anchorage, AK this past winter was do to global warming as well.
...although it’s far too early to say that is the cause.
But we’ll say it is anyway.
Yeah, sure …right….OK….should I panic that some Idiots received a Degree in Science or Meterology and the Univesity graduated them anyway with all “D”s ?
Or is this the Idiot Al Gore again ?
I was in Hilton Head, SC the first week in June and in never went over 80 degrees. Usually we go in May and it is in the 90s. I thought it has been a below average year, aside from last week’s heat wave. I couldn’t even get into our pool until about 10 days ago becaus ethe water was too cold.
Obama said he could change the levels of the oceans. And he may have. Just think, this is the type of weather experienced in the 1930’s.
So we get the second coming of FDR and he brings that frigging weather with him. Should we also get ready for dust bowls, soup lines and world wide wars?
More global cooling/warming/climate change idiocy.
Last winter was one of our mildest in decades.
The previous winter was one of the worst in decades [beat the all-time state snowfall record by 0.5 inch.]
I recall some summers from the 1950s that had devastating heat waves and droughts.
Some probably remember that period from the 1930s called the Dust Bowl.
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Anything for more grant money.
This is what it is like with decades and decades of gubbmint willful neglect, and what will be like SOLELY dependent on gubbmint for all your needs.
Granted some stuff you can not do without in your daily living amongst the society. But to stretch it to global warming fearmongering is simply wishful thinking.
When our sun entering its final days, yes, everything and everyone will be baked, but nor for a very long long time yet. And there's nothing the human can do about it. Unless we can all get off the planet, that is.
We all know the people back east think they live at the center of the universe, but where I live the temperature has been it’s usual perfect 70-74 degrees.
But no one wants to mention that.
BS. Weather patterns are cyclical and I have seen this before in my lifetime.
I've lived longer than the average Freeper and can say with certainty "extreme" weather events like this, hot or cold, have happened regularly over my lifetime. But communications were slower in years past and there wasn't a cadre of zealots trying to panic the folks into believing world socialism will simultaneously control the weather and deliver us into utopia.
For the most part, even our local (Midwest and South) leftist news channels have been too smart to take this bait. Most are remarking how much this summer is shaping up like 1953 and 1954.
I do understand how important it is for DC to call their storm a Mexican storm the term was first used for this type of storm in 1888. They would want a “new term” and wouldn’t want it to be blamed on the current administration. Kind of like his green policies were so helpful to the Colorado wildfires.
Of interest, even NPR notes that in the border area between Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, these storms are at least an annual occurrence, just not important to the right people. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/02/156106723/word-of-the-day-derecho).