Betsy Rothstein Reporter
July 19, 2019 12:01 PM ET
ThinkProgress, the liberal pub from the Center for American Progress that is on life support, appears to be delusional. Or the heat is frying the editors’ brains, making rational thought difficult to achieve.
As the East Coast and the Midwest bears down for a weekend heat wave, with marathons canceled and horse races put on ice, ThinkProgress is pointing the finger at President Trump.
Call it the Trump heat wave: The current scorcher is just a taste of what’s coming https://t.co/P5ksqj37ew pic.twitter.com/3JSkJNKcpx
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 19, 2019
Temperatures are expected to rise above 100 degrees. Meteorologists are planning for something hellish called a “heat dome,” which, according to the National Ocean Service, is when the atmosphere “traps hot ocean air like a cap.”
Late last month, parts of Europe faced down sweaty travelers in Rome and Madrid, where temps rose as high as 109 degrees. There wasn’t enough gelato in the world to stop it. Was Kellyanne Conway responsible for that one? She says her ancestors are from Italy and Ireland.
Trump isn’t a big believer in climate change. Or maybe he is? At one point, he called it a “hoax” created by China. Earlier this month, he gave a speech on the environment. Some reports say he didn’t even mention it. But that isn’t true. Instead, he boasted that the nation has reduced climate-inducing carbon dioxide emissions. (RELATED: Trump: ‘The People Who Get It Wrong Most Are Weather Forecasters And Political Analysts)
Despite his idiotic waffling, it’s hard to blame one man for this weekend’s scorcher. (RELATED: Meteorologists Claps Back On AOC Charge About A Tornado Warning In D.C.)
As president, he’s powerful. But he’s not that powerful. And no, Aquaman is not real.
In 1936, Washington experienced a summer heat wave that had disastrous consequences for crops. There were reported temps of 108 degrees on Pennsylvania Avenue and 110 degrees at the National Cathedral. AC wasn’t yet the norm in most households. Neither was AOC. And somehow, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn’t blamed for the heat wave that killed 5,000.
In early July, the news popped that the Center for American Progress is putting ThinkProgress on the griddle (up for sale in heat wave language). According to a report in The Daily Beast by Sam Stein, the news site has come under “severe financial strains” in the reign of Trump.
If a new publisher is not found, it is possible that the site will burst into flames (i.e. close).
In the meantime, let’s blame Trump for the heat wave.
Why not Donald Trump Jr. too? And 13-year-old Barron?
Because that makes a lot of sense.
There was a time when, after a bad harvest, they would burn a few witches. We really haven’t progressed since then have we?
If Trump walked on water the headlines would be “Trump can’t swim”.
If Trump found a vaccine to prevent all forms of cancer the headlines would be: “Trump puts 1,000s of oncologists and related health care providers out of work.”
If the trade war with China results in their economic downturn continuing (which all indications right now are it will) there will be headlines to the effect: “Trump responsible for the job losses and poverty of millions in China”
At some point in the future, it’s going to be as hot as the 1930’s. But not yet.
Doesn’t look like the trends are moving that way so perhaps it will be long after the meme that CO2 is the control knob of the climate and all those promoting that fallacy are dead and gone.
Thank you Donald for the 75 degree weather yesterday and today. It is perfect outside.
Nice breezy cool weather here in my kingdom. 60s at night, mid-70s to low 80s by day: NORMAL SUMMER WEATHER, to anyone who does not understand that. I expect more rain. As long as the breezes blow and the bees, wild and domestic are out and about, and dragonfly season is just in the offing, I’m fine with it – that, and watermelon!
I was about to protest that North Georgia wasn’t as hot as shown on the map, then noticed that it was the heat index. How many of these morons realize that it is water vapor (i.e., humidity) that makes it feel hotter, not CO2? But then, OO2 raises humidity except where it’s causing lower humidity, magic molecule that itis.
Trump derangement syndrome,or TDS for short,is an amazingly persistent disorder.
After 2 1/2 years of President trump being reality,still the afflicted scream and moan and clutch their pearls..
Hysteria is fashionable again.
Lord God Almighty ,or TRUMP,lives rent free in the empty unused spaces of the victims reasoning capacity.
Just as Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming causes everything,everything is caused by”TRUMP”!
Soaking the afflicted heads in buckets of ice water might cure multiple social ills.
The only issue might be timing.
King Trump
King Trump is the ruler of The United States. The members of his court are continually full of flattery. “You are the greatest man that ever lived…You are the most powerful king of all…Your highness, there is nothing you cannot do, nothing in this world dares disobey you.”
The king is a wise man and he grew tired of such foolish speeches. One day as he was walking by the seashore Trump decided to teach them a lesson.
“So you say I am the greatest man in the world?” he asked them.
“O king,” they cried, “there never has been anyone as mighty as you, and there never be anyone so great, ever again!”
“And you say all things obey me?” Trump asked.
“Yes sire” they said. “The world bows before you, and gives you honor.”
“I see,” the king answered. “In that case, bring me my chair, and place it down by the water.”
The servants scrambled to carry Trump’s royal chair over the sands. At his direction they placed it right at the water’s edge.
The King sat down and looked out at the ocean. “I notice the tide is coming in. Do you think it will stop if I give the command?”
“Give the order, O great king, and it will obey,” cried his entourage
“Sea,” cried Trump, “I command you to come no further! Do not dare touch my feet!”
He waited a moment, and a wave rushed up the sand and lapped at his feet.
“How dare you!” Trump shouted. “Ocean, turn back now! I have ordered you to retreat before me, and now you must obey! Go back!”
In came another wave lapping at the king’s feet. Trump remained on his throne throughout the day, screaming at the waves to stop. Yet in they came anyway, until the seat of the throne is covered with water.
Finally Trump turned to his entourage and said, “It seems I do not have quite so much power as you would have me believe. Perhaps now you will remember there is only one King who is all-powerful, and it is he who rules the sea, and holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand. I suggest you reserve your praises for him.”
And for another take on who to blame when trouble comes and why the world so readily blames one another.
https://www.theologyofwork.org/old-testament/job#jobs-friends-blame-job-for-the-calamity-job-4-23
Heat wave? Yeah riiiight. In my corner of the prairie states it was 8 deg F below average and 26 deg F below the record yesterday. Forecast today is 15 deg F below average and a full 40 deg F below the record. The short spell of nearly normal to slightly above normal temps was a godsend to local farmers who have been plagued with a severe deficit of growing degree days this year following a near record cold, wet spring and below average summer temps.
There is a strong chance that fall cold/rain will set in early this year due to the ongoing solar minimum. That could make it a perfect disaster year for many farmers.
Western NC has had a mild/normal summer. Tomorrow’s high is forecasted to be 74. We don’t hit 80 again until Friday. Our heat islands are tiny by comparison to large cities.
Please don’t move here if you are a democratic socialist. We already have our quota.
The heat wave is really a matter of weather and not climate change. The climate change that we have been experiencing is so small that it takes networks of sophisticated sensors decades to even detect it. We must be careful to not mix up weather cycles with true climate change. Based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, one can conclude that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. So the real party of blame for climate change is Mother Nature.
So why are California politicians requiring renewable fuel standards for electricity?
If we’re not from a heat wave state should we play along anyway in the tradition of Weather Channel and CNN reporting in hurricanes.
The planet is spinning out of control and it’s all Trump’s fault.
What is spinning out of control is the fantasy world of the Democrats/Socialists. Trump is making them look very bad and they know it and they know he will continue to do so as long as he is in Office, so they are desperate to rid themselves of this most effective counter to their political philosophy/insanity.
Trump is destroying them and it is driving them nuts.
Didn’t the Goracle blame Katrina on Bush? Bush was in office how long before Katrina?
Now they blame a heat wave entering “The Dog Days of Summer” on Trump.
Anybody see a pattern here?
It’s the Russians surely?
The behinder they get, the weirder they get.
Trump is seen as an enemy in the AGW camp. The people of Tangier Island in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay are blaming climate change for melting, I think its the Ross Glacier in Canada, and causing the island to flood. Tangier Island has been disappearing since the 1850s, and many islands across America have disappeared in the early 20th century; Billingsgate Island in Massachusetts and Watts Island (also in Virginia) are good examples. The most accepted theory of why Tangier Island is disappearing more rapidly is due to unstable soil, which was made worse by the excessive missile testing that took place on the island in the 50s/60s. Trump visited Tangier Island recently and the people told him he needs to combat climate change to stop the island from disappearing. He told them that there is no climate change, which made the people angry with him.
Who then was responsible for these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_heat_wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
The “trouble” with being older is you remember these things happening and can’t be convinced by the media that this is the first heat wave to ever happen in the history of ever.
Couple what we remember of past weather with MSM and political shenanigans …
CNBC is also playing the heat wave blame game on climate change.
On the risk to repeat myself: “hunger stones” reveal REAL drought years –
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&ei=RT43XdXNGe7MrgSdubSADw&q=hunger+stones&oq=hunger+stones&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
Yes if Hillary had been elected she would simply have had Anthony Weiner wave his magic wand and make it cooler.