Residents in Houston are a bit concerned when Harris County police decided to call off a manhunt of an escaped prisoner because of the heat. The man was arrested for possession and suspected of robbery. However, he was able to get out of his handcuffs during transport and escaped. The police started the manhunt but then called it off because it was just to darn hot.
The escape occurred around noon and police decided the heat was taking its toll on the officers and their dogs. It does not appear that the man waited out of a sense of fair play for the temperature to drop.
Source: Khou
Bdaman,
I remember watching John Coleman on chicago tv and he is a goof. He is as much an expert on climate as Michelle Bachmann is.
perry, palin,& bachmann
a wingnut trifecta
Perry is laying the groundwork in Iowa for a run.
that’s why god put texas in the us of a. to remind godly americans there is a hell.
C’mon. Everyone knows that global climate change is strictly a blue State phenomenon that can’t happen in godly Texas.
BDAman,
I don’t think that says what you think it says. “Should be” has a different meaning than “is,” which is why people don’t use them interchangeably. Not to mention the fact that you seem to have stopped right where it starts to talk about the impact of humans on the climate. Given your history of doing that kind of thing it’s tempting to believe that you’re intentionally misrepresenting what your sources actually say.
Gyges,
Yes, I have. That was a twisted show.
Buddha,
Have you seen The Upright Citizens Brigade Assssssscat! with the guy who plays Dangle on it? Fantastic.
maybe they should’ve gotten the roofers across the street or the road crew spreading asphalt to continue the search.
People can get heat stroke and die from strenuous exercise when it is too hot out. I have no problem with them calling a chase off when the chase presents more of a danger to the officers or the public than the escaping criminal. That’s true whether the pursuit is a high speed car chase or a foot pursuit through sweltering heat. I’d expect them to chase down a serial killer, but why should a police officer or dog collapse and risk their health to catch a random robbery suspect?
“Oh, poor babies want to stop because it’s to darn hot?” sounds funny until someone collapses and dies.
Buddha,
I love The Killing and have also gotten into Breaking Bad. I’m hoping to get the DVD’s from the past 3 seasons for Father’s Day.
Back in December of 2010 I posted this in one of the threads on this blog. I then sent it to a number of sites and suggested them to do a screen capture before it was taken down. Jim Boot is one that did.
From NASA
Earth’s orbit around and orientation toward the Sun change over spans of many thousands of years. In turn, these changing “orbital mechanics” force climate to change because they change where and how much sunlight reaches Earth. (Please see for more details.) Thus, changing Earth’s exposure to sunlight forces climate to change. According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
http://jimboot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Picture-168.png
It has now been taken down and is no where to be found on NASA’s site.
Here’s the details
http://jimboot.com/ice-age-coming-deleted-from-nasa
John Coleman, our local joke on KUSI, least-watched station in San Diego
After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA’s sister station WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois.
This means he’s been studying weather for 50 plus years.
At WLS, Coleman was teamed with Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly and Bill Frink to form the Eyewitness News team, creating a news brand name and establishing a highly successful new local news format derisively dubbed “happy talk” by a local television columnist. This style of local news has been widely copied. The team dominated Chicago television news ratings for more than a decade.
Two ways to success. Create your own or copy someone elses.
Coleman became the original weathercaster on what was then the brand-new ABC network morning program, Good Morning America. He stayed seven years with this top-rated program anchored by David Hartman and Joan Lunden.
In 1981, he persuaded communications entrepreneur Frank Batten to help establish The Weather Channel, serving as TWC’s CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. After leaving TWC, Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and then at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, KUSI-TV in San Diego, in what Coleman fondly calls, “his retirement job.
He probably feels like what he does is just a hobby now. Most retirees just want to stay busy.
He may just have a degree in journalism but it’s hard to take away 50 plus years of true experience.
lol Mike.
I can just see Officer Dangle calling off a chase because it’s too hot!
Reno 911 is by far one the best cop show on TV next to Law & Order UK and those guys would never call off a chase for because of heat. Rain, sure. But never because of the heat. Oh, and AMC’s The Killing which may be one of the best shows of any sort on TV, but they only call off a chase when it’s not raining.
Most of you seem to be missing one of the main points – Dogs are used in searches like these, and heat is stressful for dogs in the first place, and even more so for those that are wearing, and I’m not kidding, bullet-proof vests.
Bdaman,
When they began talking about climate change in the 70’s,global warming was also presumed to be accompanied by a period of freezing cold. This is nothing new and is indeed part of the agreed scientific model.
As for this particular article, I bet you’d never see this on TV Cop shows, except perhaps Reno 911.
What Gingerbaker, Frank and Buddha said!
Are we headed for a new ice age because of the decreased solar activity?
The answer is ““No, we’re not.”
dbaman – it is interesting to note that the last ice age in Europe began when the Earth warmed enough to stop the Gulf current. Once the warming waters stopped flowing winters became worse & glaciers advanced. Thats the thing about climate change, it has results that may not match your expectations and certainly can be wildly different in different places.
bdaman
If you think that record snowfalls in some areas are anything but a vindication of predicted climate change, you are thinking as foolishly as that idiot professor who thinks it is going to start getting colder.
In case you missed the memo, the Earth is tracking along the worst case analyses of temperature increases of multiple climate models, none of which even include the most worrisome climatic danger – the release of *huge* amounts of methane from now thawing permafrost regions in northern climes and under sea beds. Methane is 25-75 times more potent as a greenhouse gas as is CO2.
In other words – the predictions and models of all respected climatic organizations are almost certainly WAY too conservative – it is going to be much hotter in future than 99.9% of people even realize. Civilization-ending hot.
The world’s breadbaskets are going to become dustbowls, as conditions will be 6 times drier than what produced the actual dustbowl in the US in the thirties. The extended droughts in Texas and Oklahoma of late – where farmers are actually packing up and leaving their barren lands behind is just a grim whisper of what it is going to be like in about 50 – 80 years.
Grow up and smell the coffee burning.