While 10 different aircraft plus ships search the area near western Australia where debris was spotted by satellite, Mother Jone Magazine takes a stupid pill and puts this crazy theory on display.
‘One Reason It May Be Harder to Find Flight 370: We Messed Up the Currents
How climate change factors into the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
While longer-term climate shifts are unlikely to play into day-to-day search and rescue efforts, these large climate-affected currents—among them the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the world’s most powerful ocean system—are an essential factor in oceanographers’ understanding of the literal undercurrents of search operations.
According to interviews with three climate scientists who specialize in the region of the world where investigators are focusing their search, the winds of the Southern Indian Ocean bordering the Southern Ocean have been shifting southwards and intensifying over the last 20 to 30 years, in part due to a warming atmosphere and the hole in the ozone layer. Ocean currents are also tightening around Antarctica, shifting whole climate systems towards the South Pole.
The folks at MJ must not have realized that Courtney Love has already found the plane.
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/17/courtney-love-thinks-shes-found-missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370/
Let them shoot themselves in the foot. Mother Jones skeptics best friend with their stupidity LOL
I can just hear Chrissy Matthews form MSLSD in the near future say….”I’m so glad this plane went missing”.
Ignorance on parade. Let these people make fools of themselves for in doing so, they destroy themselves along with the lies they spew.
Pure press manipulation. A few innocent comments from oceanographers about current and pass ocean patterns. Mixed in with a bit of nonsense from a climatologist. And seasoned with a conclusion by a full on Warmist equals the most unlikely conclusion driven story of the year. We have not topped the kidney stone increase (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515072740.htm ), but we are trying.
That’s just the first step.
The next headline from one of the whack jobs will not be that CC is making it harder to find…
The next headline will be that the crash was CAUSED by CC.
Wait for it…
Jim from Florida 🙂
@Patrick Guinness
I just read that “climate change will increase kidney stones” article. You are quite right. Nothing, absolutely NO THING will top that one.
Could this be the first real sighting of the “Kunning-Druger” effect?
I don’t think that the folks at Mother Jones need to take stupid pills. They started out that way.
In the sixties Mother was a very nice little journal full of usefull things…..or was it me who changed.
Where do they get these “climatologists” who have certain knowledge of deep ocean currents based on surface winds and a “warming world ” that isn’t warming?
Like in Top Gun’s Iceman:
*hand before face coughing* BullS**t
Latitude: thank you for your explanation. The hacking theory seems far-fetched, but it’s not impossible, especially since at the moment there is no plausible explanation for the mysterious disappearance of the plane.
Is it only me who finds this mildly offensive?
Inventing “scientific” reasons to use the loss of an aircraft and (presumably by now) everyone on board as a point-scoring exercise is, imho, beyond stupidity and edging out the wrong side of tacky. It would be nice if at least some of Mother Jones’ readership understood that but I won’t hold my breath.
Doug Danhoff says:
March 24, 2014 at 9:43 am
In the sixties Mother was a very nice little journal full of usefull things…..or was it me who changed.
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I’d call it a stretch to think that MJ was ever useful, except as a propaganda rag.
Maybe you are thinking of The Mother Earth News, since Mother Jones magazine was first published in the mid- 70s.
Twil/Latitude: I can see no reason for allowing the update of flight equipment from the ground.
It gives a massive and therefore unacceptable risk to flight safety.
Can you provide links to evidence of this?
I’ll say it again: the left is making it very difficult for the fine folks at The Onion to earn a living. It’s simply impossible to parody this level of stupidity.
This used to be called “clutching at straws” before the warmists went mad!
devijvers on March 24, 2014 at 8:11 am
Maybe the maniac who flew the aircraft to about the most remote region it could reach made it harder to find MH370? No, that’s preposterous, it must me global warming. Sigh.
There was no maniac. My feeling is that the pilots – correctly – pointed the plane away from flight lanes due to an onboard fire. All on board were long dead before the plane ran out of fuel and ditched.
steverichards1984 says:
March 24, 2014 at 11:41 am
Twil/Latitude: I can see no reason for allowing the update of flight equipment from the ground.
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You can take off, fly, and land a plane from the ground….of course
There’s has been some mention of their onboard systems/computers not being secure (enough)…way before this happened. I’ve been reading it since the plane came out, have no idea where a link is now.
Mother Jones is a sensationalistic ho. Good luck proving that currents are “messed up” you idiots. Oh, and while you’re looking, please look for the missing heat. I’m pretty damn sure you’ll find exactly what you look for, because that’s what you climate catastrophe alarmists usually do.
On a more serious note, do 777s use oxygen tanks or do they somehow concentrate O2 from the atmosphere? I’m leaning toward a theory of mass suffocation aboard Flight 370 due to lack of O2 in the cabin, a la the Payne Stewart Lear Jet tragedy from a few years back. Why the plane should veer off-course or the interior sensors not clue the pilots to immediately set down, I can’t say, of course. But IF there was a low O2 event happening, and the pilots tried to head for a nearby landing, but then passed out prior to suffocation, this could explain a lot.
What are they smoking at MJ?
How long before the governor of Washington state declares that climate change caused the deadly mudslide near Oso?
What a horrible mess!!
@J.Philip Peterson – You thought it would take any time at all? http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/climate-change-mudslide-washington-weather
Having “cut my teeth” geologically in New Zealand – you get used to see “slumps” commonly in certain landscapes there. From photos I have seen Oso looks to me like a stock standard slump. I would expect to see signs of earlier slumping in that landscape if you looked.
So according the tha alarmists, CO2 can do ANYTHING as long as it’s a bad thing and good things, like helping plants grow is just not possible?
A 777 pilot on a radio show (I wish I could remember which since ALL the talk shows put clueless “experts” on to fill air time) said the 777 flight system had a computer update in a recent technical service bulletin to correct the hacking problem. They didn’t call it a hacking problem though. I wasn’t aware the unauthorized updates could happen through the satellite feed though. I thought it was a wireless problem inside the aircraft. To me, having the possibility of the OFP being updated when the weight on wheels switch is in the false condition is a stupid feature. The software should be untouchable except on the ground, and safety equipment settings should be hard wired on a passenger aircraft.
I still lean toward a pilot intentionally doing it, but I can’t figure out a motive since no statement was found and no group has claimed responsibility.