Once upon a time, we were constantly lectured that “weather is not climate”.
Now that climate change just isn’t scary enough (and not panning out) we are told daily by such luminary activists such as Brad Johnson of “Forecast the Facts” (a paid political group that harrasses TV weathercasters, and pickets Google to make them cry uncle on climate) that all weather is in fact climate, because the weather is now “poisoned” with CO2.
This is what happens when the weather gets poisoned. It jumps the shark. You’ve been warned.
Supposedly there were cameo appearances by Supermandia and the Mann of Steel who swoop in to save the day, but that was left on the cutting room floor because screening audiences didn’t find that subplot credible.
You can watch it tonight at 9PM/8Central on the SyFy channel
Personally, I blame Trenberth’s missing heat going into the ocean.
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This is a joke, right?!
REPLY: no, it is an actual TV show – Anthony
Where’s the wizard of Oz when you need him?
That would be 9:00 p.m. Eastern (8:00 p.m. Central). I would not want anyone to miss it.
So to summarize, you cannot use weather to disprove climate change but you can use weather to prove climate change. Got it. Somebody’s sponsors need to be boycotted and held up to ridicule.
I’ve always been puzzled what they want local weather forecasters to say. For instance, do they want:
“Tomorrow we expect a high temperature of 87 degrees. Without man-made global warming, the high would only be 86 degrees.”
Mac the Knife says:
uly 11, 2013 at 12:03 pm
This is a joke, right?!
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I’ve seen commercials for it.
Ahh yes, the SyFy channel “original movie”. Always good for a chuckle. Too bad MST3K is no longer around to do the appropriate mockery and commentary…
I can’t quite see why the sharks would want to swim into a tornado in the first place…
Other SyFy classics (for those who still believe this is a joke).
These all have a cause/effect relationship with global warming and/or Man messing with Mother Earth.
“Chupacabra vs. the Alamo”
“Stonadoes”
“Arachnoquake”
“Piranhaconda”
“Sharktopus”
“Mega Python vs. Gateroid”
“Malibu Shark Attack”
Sharks are the new tomatoes
Oh my aching side. That won`t be the end of it. There’ll be Sharknado II, Son of Sharknado, Return of the Sharknado and Sharkocane.
It is 1989 – the year just past having played host to the “The Long Hot Summer of ’88”. Here in my hands I hold the January 1989 issue of Natural History, and on page 42 therein Kevin E. Trenberth writes in reassuringly dulcet tones that weather is not climate, and that weather extremes come from natural processes. In this case, a strong El Niño, the “abnormal” warming of the waters along the equator shifting to a “recently dubbed La Niña” (SST fell 10ºF to 6ºF below normal) which he explains tends to suppress equatorial thunderstorm activity. Here the story breaks down a bit as what happens next seems to be describing a continuing El Niño.
I’m not sure what is abnormal about the El Niño warming – seems very natural to me, but at least we don’t have to worry about man-made weather.
I’m waiting for Snailquake.
Megashak vs Crocosaurus was a good one.
It was better than Transformers 2… well, it wasn’t worse.
Sharknado isn’t all that dumb an idea. Raining fish has been well recorded. Tornadoes have been well recorded.
Why not put them together and then up the ante to sharks?
It sounds less sinister than Rain of the Toxic Frogs (which I can write for you Syfy, call me).
Mann vs Nature
Sharknado is grim attempt to outdo “The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”, a film that cognoscenti recognize as the greatest movie ever made
StyFry is really doing this. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but that doesn’t mean fiction won’t get even stranger (I just saw an ad for this … I can’t even think of a word).
I’m waiting for Night of the living vengeful massacring chainsaws. That is fictional. For now.
Jump the shark indeed.
“Personally, I blame Trenberth’s missing heat going into the ocean.”
NBC News has an article today on the missing heat having been found in the deep seas:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/deep-oceans-warming-alarming-rate-6C10606562
The article is supposed to be very alarming; however, you have to read to the end to get the real story:
The new re-analysis of ocean data is not the last word on what’s happening in the deep seas, but the best estimate of what is happening.
“It’s more than speculation and suggestion,” agrees climate scientist Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, “and it’s probably right to a reasonable degree. The fact of the matter is we’ll never be able to get data from below 400 meters in the middle of the Pacific Ocean” because there is not enough money invested in ocean sensors to cover such places. “So we have to use physics to fill in the gaps.”
So it is not based on real observations. They had to use “physics to fill in the gaps.” “and it’s probably right to a reasonable degree,” says Gavin. How can anyone dispute that science? /sarc
You really should watch these films. They are so very bad… they’re Great!
Mega Piranha was one of their classics. There is one scene where there is a 20 minute car chase. The villains start out in a black Chevy SUV. During the chase, the brand of the SUV changes from Chevy, to GMC, to a Hyundai, back to a Chevy, and ends up being the GMC when the chase ends.
Did I forget to mention it has Barry Williams (Greg Brady…. yeah, that guy) and Tiffanny in it?
Geez, stop taking the ‘Saturday Scifi movie’ so seriously. The people making these for the network are doing them entirely tongue in check-there’s nothing serious about them. Sit back and enjoy an absolutely ridiculous laugh.
I continue to be amazed by the name “Forecast the Facts”, which seems to be an oxymoronic concept, especially in an area of science which appears incapable of even hind-casting the facts.
What about Monty Python v Hissing Sid?
http://www.80sactual.com/2005/05/hissing-sid-is-innocent.html
Not to mention:-
“Timid Toad, Reckless Rat, Artful Owl and Batty Bat “
M Courtney says:
July 11, 2013 at 12:50 pm
Megashak vs Crocosaurus was a good one.
It was better than Transformers 2… well, it wasn’t worse.
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No movie featuring Megan Fox is utterly without some minor visual redeeming value.
Should anyone miss it (I’m going to do my best to miss it), the schedule at http://www.syfy.com/schedule/ says it’s on again at 1AM (I assume so it’s at 9 PM in both EDT and PDT).
There are other “promising” shark movies too like Sharktopus and Malibu Shark Attack.
You’ve been warned.