The Kentucky tornado is worse than the Moore tornado in that it effected eight states.

I never get used to these enormous storms. The voices of the people stay with me. Besides the school children that were killed in Moore, was a recording of a 13 year old boy called his mother. He stated to her he didn't think he was going to make it but he wanted his mother to know he loved her. A 13 year old boy reached out to his mother in his final days of life to tell her he loved her. Thirteen years old. I was chilling to me to realize that child knew he was going to die. In the next instance the phone went dead. He died. The mother had to bury a 13 year old boy that loved her very deeply. No storm shelters, nothing he could do to hide from the storm. He took him without a potential for him to save his own life. That is unthinkable to me.'

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Why? Why does money, power and influence take precedent over human life in this country?

We should all be ashamed this is happening and continues to happen. This is the United States of America where human life is supposed to be the pinnacle of our concerns and I am here to tell you, it is not. 

 

Any nursing home people missing?

December 12, 2021
By Laura Testino

Monette, Arkansas - The nursing home residents (click here) huddled together on the south end of the building and tried to hold on to their pillows while they sang hymns.

It was what the nurses, who hovered over the residents as human shields from the storm debris, suggested they do to stay calm. 

They sang "When We All Get to Heaven" and "Jesus Loves Me" and "One Day at a Time" as the wind was ripping their building apart, grabbing metal and bending it around tree branches, pulverizing concrete into rocks. 

One 94-year-old resident died in the severe storms that destroyed the Monette Manor nursing home, a single-story brick building in the small northeastern Arkansas town....

This occured four months ago at a time of year one might expect it, but, not in Canada. The eight state tornado is a major disaster which could be called a repeat of what occurred in Canada. Tornado outbreaks are not normal for Earth.

August 20, 2021
By Randi Mann

On Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, 19 tornadoes (click here) touched down in southern Ontario, making it the largest single-day twister outbreak in Canadian history.

That afternoon, several supercell thunderstorms developed over Michigan, multiplying as they moved into Ontario. At around 3 p.m., the storms quickly strengthened. One storm moved through Ontario over Huron County and into Grey County.

The first tornado touched down near Durham, causing F2 damages. The next powerful tornado touched down near Thornbury, travelling through Clarksburg and Blue Mountain. The tornado also created F2 damages before it moved over Georgian Bay.

A supercell near Barrie produced four tornadoes, impacting areas near New Lowell, Edenvale, Moonstone, and Ril Lake. Two other tornadoes touched down north of Barrie near Britt and Arnstein.....

There is no telling where bodies will be found.

December 12, 2021

This photo combo shows Katie Posten holding the front and back of a photograph she found stuck to her car’s windshield on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 in New Albany, Ind.

When Katie Posten (click here) walked outside Saturday morning to her car parked in her driveway, she saw something that looked like a note or receipt stuck to the windshield.

She grabbed it and saw it was a black and white photo of a woman in a striped sundress and headscarf holding a little boy in her lap. On the back, written in cursive, it said, “Gertie Swatzell & J.D. Swatzell 1942." A few hours later, Posten would discover that the photo had made quite a journey - almost 130 miles (209 kilometers) on the back of monstrous winds.

Posten had been tracking the tornadoes that hit the middle of the U.S. Friday night, killing dozens of people. They came close to where she lives in New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. So she figured it must be debris from someone's damaged home.

“Seeing the date, I realized that was likely from a home hit by a tornado. How else is it going to be there?" Posten said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “It’s not a receipt. It’s well-kept photo."...

Eight states were effected by the tornado outbreak.

December 12, 2021
By Alaa Elassar

An aerial photo shows (click here) the destruction of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory after tornadoes moved through the area in Mayfield, Kentucky, on Friday night. 

It took everything Kyanna Parsons-Perez (click here) had to keep from panicking after heavy winds collapsed the building she was in and pinned her to the ground under piles of heavy debris.

Parsons-Perez was one of many workers trapped under the rubble of a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, after it was struck by a tornado late Friday.

"It happened so fast," Parsons-Perez told CNN, describing the onslaught of destruction the tornado waged at the factory. "We all just rocked back and forth, and then boom, everything fell on us."

That tornado was one of at least 50 that struck eight states, including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee. The winds knocked out power lines, ripped roofs off buildings and in some cases decimated communities.

More than 100 people are feared dead, including at least 80 in Kentucky, according to state and local officials....

Sound proof that as greenhouse gases increased, so did the opportunity for more than 30 tornado days.

 Number of tornadoes (click here)

In 1969 the number of tornadoes were mostly a single tornado event and the CO2 level was slightly greater than 350 ppm. In 1980, the number of tornadoes was primarily single tornado events and the CO2 level was less than 340 ppm. In 1990, the number of days per year with more than 30 tornadoes is increasing with a CO2 level in the troposphere was 350 ppm. In 2000. the number of more than 30 tornadoes was stable since 1990 with a CO2 level of 360 ppm, but, it was also an inflection point. In 2010 the number of at least 1 tornado per day was rapidly decreasing, but, the number of more than 30 tornadoes was increasing with a CO2 level of approximately 380 ppm. The increase in carbon dioxide concenteration increased past that graph, but, in 2015 the ppm was at 400 for the first time in the history of Earth. 

"Mitch McConnell the technology focus is NOT working. Hello, anyone there?"

Cars lose value with severe weathering.

Acid rain results when sulfur dioxide (SO2) (click here) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by wind and air currents. The SO2 and NOX react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids.  These then mix with water and other materials before falling to the ground.

While a small portion of the SO2 and NOX that cause acid rain is from natural sources such as volcanoes, most of it comes from the burning of fossil fuels.  The major sources of SO2 and NOX in the atmosphere are:

• Burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity.  Two thirds of SO2 and one fourth of NOX in the atmosphere come from electric power generators.
• Vehicles and heavy equipment.
• Manufacturing, oil refineries and other industries.

Winds can blow SO2 and NOX over long distances and across borders making acid rain a problem for everyone and not just those who live close to these sources....

Anyone want to eat fish with high levels of aluminum?

...The ecological effects of acid rain (click here) are most clearly seen in aquatic environments, such as streams, lakes, and marshes where it can be harmful to fish and other wildlife. As it flows through the soil, acidic rain water can leach aluminum from soil clay particles and then flow into streams and lakes. The more acid that is introduced to the ecosystem, the more aluminum is released.

Some types of plants and animals are able to tolerate acidic waters and moderate amounts of aluminum. Others, however, are acid-sensitive and will be lost as the pH declines. Generally, the young of most species are more sensitive to environmental conditions than adults. At pH 5, most fish eggs cannot hatch. At lower pH levels, some adult fish die. Some acidic lakes have no fish. Even if a species of fish or animal can tolerate moderately acidic water, the animals or plants it eats might not. For example, frogs have a critical pH around 4, but the mayflies they eat are more sensitive and may not survive pH below 5.5....

As a car owner, (click here) it was imperative to get rid of the acidic rain collecting on the care.

The Republicans since the Late President George H. W. Bush have turned their backs on his policy.

December 3, 2018
By Scott Waldman

The late President George H.W. Bush (click here) is the reason why President Trump has been asked about climate change in the last week more than at any other time in his presidency.

Through legislation he signed in 1990, Bush started the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping study documenting climate change’s impacts on the United States. The Trump administration released the latest iteration on Black Friday and has since downplayed its definitive body of research, making false claims about its accuracy and inadvertently drawing more attention to the clear science that shows Americans will be increasingly at risk as a result of climate change.

Bush’s presidency came during a different time, when bipartisan actions to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants seemed possible, observers said. The very existence of the NCA is a reminder that Republicans in Washington once crafted aggressive climate policy....

The Republicans have turned their backs on all kinds of policy to become radical extremists, such as health care and as stated by H.W. the climate crisis as well.

Donors and cronies were not put first in the H.W. administration. He put the people at the top of the list of priorities when it came to the oil and gas lobby.

Ever hear a politican talk out of both sides of his mouth. This is what it sounds like.

The Republican rhetoric always is about technology and the worrying about jobs. I don't think that is a worry anymore. But, as to the technology issue, it is over 2 decades old. That was two decades. Twenty years and they are saying the same thing. Well. Musk gave them the technology needed. What are the Republicans waiting for?

Clean Energy and Climate Change (click here)

“My Administration’s climate change policy will be science-based, encourage research breakthroughs that lead to technological innovation, and take advantage of the power of markets. It will encourage global participation and will pursue actions that will help ensure continued economic growth and prosperity for our citizens and for citizens throughout the world.”

President George W. Bush
July 13, 2001

 

Will all this rain why is California still experiencing drought? The drought is profound and not easily ended.

December 12, 2021
By Jakob Rodgers

Drought Monitor (click here)

An atmospheric river storm and a rush of cold air (click here) bore down on the Bay Area on Sunday, possibly setting the stage for drenching rain, strong winds and hail over the next couple days, and a dumping of powder several feet deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

San Jose and the Santa Cruz mountains were expected to encounter the brunt of the storm in the Bay Area, which was forecast to intensify late Sunday into Monday while providing the area’s first real drenching in about a month. A dusting of snow also was possible over some Bay Area peaks by Monday morning, including Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Hamilton and parts of the Santa Cruz mountains.

To the east, the Sierra Nevada mountains were predicted to receive up to 100 inches of snow over the next couple days — a wallop that prompted travel warnings for motorists visiting in the high country.

While no drought buster, the storm promised to act as a salve for parched and quickly drying communities across the Bay Area after a month of dry, arid conditions....

December 10, 2021

By Ryan Sabalow

A satellite photo (click here) taken just before 2 p.m. Pacific time on Thursday (January 28, 2021) shows a huge vapor plume stretching from the central Pacific to the California coast.

The winter storm (click here) that could dump several feet of snow in the Sierra and soak the Sacramento Valley with rain is listed as a “strong” category “AR 3” system by the scientists who study the powerful storms that supply California with most of its water.

In 2019, the scientists who study the storms known as “atmospheric rivers” agreed to a ranking scale similar to the “Cat” system used to describe a hurricane.

An “AR 1” is the weakest system. An “AR 5” is the most destructive. The five categories the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at Scripps Oceanography list are “weak,” “moderate,” “strong,” “extreme,” and “exceptional."

One notorious example of an AR 5 was the New Year’s Day floods of 1997, which killed at least nine people and flooded 300 square miles of California....

$577,060 That is Five hundred and seventy-seven thousand and sixty dollars.

 Joe Machin as a Senator is bought and paid for in 2022 and no one can deny it, not even him. Got to work those phones, oh, yeah!

This is called corruption and Machin is guilty of it. There is no doubt who he is working for and it isn't coal or the people of West Virginia. I guess that boat has a fair amont of upkeep. My uncle once said, "A boat is a hole in the water that you dump money in."

27 October 2021
By Kyle Vass

The conservative Democrat (click here) is busy trying to strip out many of the policies to tackle the problems his home state is facing.

The rise of Joe Manchin as a key power player for Democratic policymaking in 2021 is the result of a perfect storm for the US senator from West Virginia.

His position as the Senate’s most conservative Democrat means he often has final say in what his party is able to push through, especially when it comes to Joe Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda on infrastructure, far-reaching social policies and a powerful attempt to tackle the climate crisis.

A drive through West Virginia’s countryside – which is still enthusiastically Donald Trump country – reveals a patchwork of communities battered by the climate crisis and barely held together by deteriorating infrastructure. Yet Manchin – balking at a $3.5tn price tag of Biden’s reconciliation bill – is busy trying to strip out many of the policies that would try to tackle these crises that are so seriously affecting many of his fellow West Virginians....

The year is 2015 after Mitch McConnell received all that money.

December 1, 2015
By Erika Rosenthal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (click here) often asserts that he’s not a scientist, and hence can’t opine on climate change. Yet opine he does, and often. Perhaps it’s the millions of dollars he’s received in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry?

The United States is currently joining with scores of other nations in Paris to negotiate a bold, vital plan to counteract climate change. Perennial doubters like McConnell—among the most powerful men in Washington— are trying to undermine President Obama’s mission in France, but we’re confident the rest of the world sees right through him.

Here are our top ten picks for most outrageous McConnell quotes on the state of our environment:

1.  “For everybody who thinks it’s warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn’t.”

2. “I’m not a scientist.” We all know that. It is completely obvious.

3. In 2010, during a record snowstorm in Washington, D.C., McConnell asked, “Where’s Al Gore now?”

4, “I don’t buy” that climate is changing.

5. McConnell warned foreign leaders last spring to "proceed with caution before entering into a binding, unattainable deal” on climate with Obama, noting that "two-thirds of the U.S. federal government"—Congress and the Supreme Court—hasn't signed off on the president's Clean Power Plan.

6. The climate change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."

7. McConnell opened his campaign on March 3 with an op-ed article published in The Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky with the headline, “States should reject Obama mandate for clean-power regulations.”

8: “Even if the job-killing and likely illegal Clean Power Plan were fully implemented, the United States could not meet the targets laid out in this proposed new plan.”

9. When asked by the Associated Press if the Senate has any obligation to address global warming, McConnell replied, “Look, my first obligation is to protect my people … who are hurting as the result of what this administration is doing."

10. In our humble opinion, Senator McConnell often says it best by, well you know, #mcconnelling.

Fast forward from 2014 to 2022. The largest contribution from oil and gas went to Joe Manchin

 Oil and Gas: Money to Congress (click here)

There is nothing here but Quid Pro Quo. They buy the votes of these Senators. Take a good look at that. Machin is receiving over a half million dollars from oil and gas for 2022. Machin pushed everyone else way done the row in amounts from oil and gas. McConnell came in 14th among these Senators. That is amazing. Machin knows exactly the point at which he can rake in big campaign dollars, simply be against every bill the Democratic Congress presents. Manchin needs to be put before the ethics committee.

Mitch McConnell as Republican Majority Leader receives either first, second or third place in amounts among major campaign contributors.

 Mitch McConnell (click here)

One would think a war chest didn't have to include some of the most egregious industries with complete disregard for the climate.

Coal gave McConnell $290,450.

These were top recipients of the coal industry in 2014

 Coal Mining Top Recipients (click here)