We have all cursed the weather man on occasion but North Korean forecasters are facing a more tangible threat this week. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has turned his menacing eye on meteorologists and warned that there are “many incorrect forecasts.” Since reports state that Kim Jong Un had his wife’s former musical group executed, forecasters are understandably concerned that one unpredicted rain shower could bring lead showers. If Al Roker gets a call with a job offer from Pyongyang he might want to read the fine print.
Kim has of course continued his father’s policy of cutting off his country and virtually starving the population while he lives lavishly as a type of community godhead. There is no indication that he is anything more than a thuggish dolt. However, he went to the state-run Hydro-Meteorological Service to give guidance to the meteorologists that they need to avoid wrong forecasts. The problem is that his government has not only cut itself off from the world but the world’s technology. While spending a good portion of his revenues on weapons and a nuclear program, Kim has left North Korean in the stone age. Forecasters would have probably pointed out that they have been left with the scientific equivalent to a rock and metal rod for predictions, but that would result in a 100% chance of dead weathermen.
With a drought worsening the nation’s lack of food, Kim reportedly visited the site “to learn in detail about meteorological observation and weather forecast.” He is shown giving instructions to the meteorologists from his official state-recognized natural brilliance.
Dredd:
In my area, the weather was unseasonably mild. We had the fewest numbers of days over 100 degrees in decades last summer.
Darren – is that his real hair?
Dredd:
Your replies make absolutely no sense. I seriously doubt you have actually read any of the IPCC papers. I have. You failed to address a single one of my valid concerns, such as missing original data, testing stations that were moved when climate change papers depended on their remaining in original locations, reliance on the accuracy of measurements made on equipment over 100 years old, extrapolating data from 100 years to millennia, etc . . . You know . . . science questions. Not emotional questions. Or videos. Or other people’s ideas. Or personal attacks.
Industry is highly regulated. This would never have passed muster. But apparently it’s a bit more Wild West in academia.
I cannot say one way or the other if there is any anthropomorphic climate change going on. I can say with absolute certainty that if the climate is not changing now, it will at some time in the future. Because it always has.
In the meantime, why don’t we clean up the mercury and floating plastic in our oceans?
Dredd ~
Brilliant –– startling but brilliant.
Paul C. Schulte
Hyperbolic is making out that the article is all about Phoenix and then admitting at the end that CA will go first.
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No, this is hyperbolic (On The Size of “Government” – 3).
Annie
Dredd,
I guess that some folks’ concern for other people’s children ends once they are born. This is hyperbole of course, but it sometimes seems to be so.
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I noticed that with Sarah.
What if she was a weatherwoman reporting to Kim Jung Un … would he bring her to term?
Paul ~
How is that hyperbolic? San Diego is a desert that averages only 10″ of rain a year. During our winter this year we’ve had only 5″ and we’ve already experienced a very early start to our ‘fire season.’
Hyperbolic is making out that the article is all about Phoenix and then admitting at the end that CA will go first.
Paul, man had been living WITH nature, not against it. Mother nature will always win in the end.
Annie – you live in WI, right? And do you live outside WITH nature?
The promo for my survivalist school in Phoenix:
Annie – man has been living in the Phoenix area since at least 600 AD
Thanks Paulette, sounds like New Orleans before Katrina, a natural disaster waiting to happen because of man’s insistence on living where they probably shouldn’t.
I have no problem w/ hairdressers being executed. There are way too many.
Annie ~
Here is a link to the original article that “The Nation” drew from. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175661/
Oh, thanks for posting that excerpt Dredd.
Hmmm, none of the links are working for me.
Darren Smith
I wonder how many hairdressers he had to execute to achieve his iconic Pompadour hair style.
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Yep.
Hairdressers must have a good reputation.
RIP.
Paulette’s link, inter alia, says:
“If, in summer, the grid there fails on a large scale and for a significant period of time, the fallout will make the consequences of Superstorm Sandy look mild. Sure, people will hunt madly for power outlets to charge their cellphones and struggle to keep their milk fresh, but communications and food refrigeration will not top their list of priorities. Phoenix is an air-conditioned city. If the power goes out, people fry.
In the summer of 2003, a heat wave swept Europe and killed 70,000 people. The temperature in London touched 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time since records had been kept, and in portions of France the mercury climbed as high as 104. Those temperatures, however, are child’s play in Phoenix, where readings commonly exceed 100 for more than 100 days a year. In 2011, the city set a new record for days over 110 degrees: there were 33 of them, more than a month of spectacularly superheated days ushering in a new era.”
Phoenix sounds like a good place to open a Survivalist School.
Dredd – you are more than welcome to open a survivalist school if you like.
I wonder how many hairdressers he had to execute to achieve his iconic Pompadour hair style.
Try this: Kim Jung Un Meets Paul In Phoenix
Annie
Paulette, your link isn’t working. Phoenix sounds like a hellish place to live and I’m not even referring to the weather.
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Try this:
http://www.thenation.com/article/173346/could-phoenix-soon-becomhttp://www.thenation.com/article/173346/could-phoenix-soon-become-uninhabitablee-uninhabitable