As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests. While other research has warned of broad weather changes on a large scale, such as more extreme hurricanes and droughts, the new study predicts even smaller events such as thunderstorms will be more dangerous.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
NASA's Predictions
Remember when NASA predicted the space shuttle would only fail one in 100,000 flights?
Ah, good times.
Rob, I noticed you never
Rob, I noticed you never actually commented on the science of the report. Does this mean you cannot rebut the findings of this study?
Rebuttal?
I think you'll find my rebuttal is right above your comment.
An a**hole by any other name
Would smell exactly like this guy. Why even bother quipping back with Rob, one of this site's self-appointed trolls. Total waste of time.
I actually enjoy his comments for their predictability and frothing-at-the-mouth irrationality.
And I am looking forward to his equally predictable, ad hominem response to this message too.
Come on, Rob, make me laugh some more. You're a hit!
JTK
NASA Study Gives New Meaning to "Raining Cats and Dogs"
mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian)
Scientists in the Soviet Union were sure that organisms from Earth could live in space. To demonstrate that, they sent the world's second artificial space satellite — Sputnik 2 — to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 3, 1957.
On board was a live mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian) on a life-support system. Laika also was known as Kudryavka (Little Curly in Russian). The American press nicknamed the dog Muttnik.
While other animals had made suborbital flights, Laika was the first animal to go into orbit. She suffered no ill effects while she was alive in an orbit at an altitude near 2,000 miles.
Laika had been a stray dog — mostly a Siberian husky and around three years old — rounded up from the Moscow streets and trained for spaceflight. She was carried aloft in a capsule which remained attached to the converted SS-6 intercontinental ballistic missile which rocketed her to orbit.
dog clothes