Saturday, May 07, 2011
Unprecedentedly local
Following up on this.
I was looking on Weather.com to check radar on an approaching storm. My eye stuck on these headlines in the sidebar:
See it? Historic flooding in the Northern Plains, strengthening drought in the Southern Plains.
Weather problems in the last few years are precisely the opposite of Global.
Our trouble is unusually Local weather, with unusually sharp distinctions between highs and lows that are nailed in place for entirely too long. It's similar to the pattern in the 1930's, and if we had any sense we'd try to learn from that pattern. If NASA had any sense, it would be working on ways to break up such constipated patterns.
We don't learn, because we're suicidally trapped by an insane apocalyptic cult that has penetrated all the institutions where learning formerly ruled. ¶ 1:59 PM
I was looking on Weather.com to check radar on an approaching storm. My eye stuck on these headlines in the sidebar:
See it? Historic flooding in the Northern Plains, strengthening drought in the Southern Plains.
Weather problems in the last few years are precisely the opposite of Global.
Our trouble is unusually Local weather, with unusually sharp distinctions between highs and lows that are nailed in place for entirely too long. It's similar to the pattern in the 1930's, and if we had any sense we'd try to learn from that pattern. If NASA had any sense, it would be working on ways to break up such constipated patterns.
We don't learn, because we're suicidally trapped by an insane apocalyptic cult that has penetrated all the institutions where learning formerly ruled. ¶ 1:59 PM
