FARK.com: (3027044) Over a hundred thousand people in the Midwest are without power this morning after high winds and heavy storms battered the region. Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms?"

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		Over a hundred thousand people in the Midwest are without power this morning after high winds and heavy storms battered the region. Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms?" (news.yahoo.com)		140
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bovinedefenestration		2007-08-26 09:31:58 AM

Go, go gadget global warming!

ceramics		2007-08-26 09:33:02 AM

It's all their fault, they had plenty of warning and time to evacuate. Why do these people insist on living in a flood zone?

SideburnSlim		2007-08-26 09:33:07 AM

"Throusand", eh subby? THROUSAND?!!?!? BAH HAW HAW HAW!!! OH YOU DIRTY SOB!!! YOU SHOULD DIAF FOR THAT SILLY TYPO BUSINESS!!!

ichiban		2007-08-26 09:35:21 AM

Time for a hundred throusand wind frarms?

Sammy Jenkins		2007-08-26 09:36:21 AM

ceramics: It's all their fault, they had plenty of warning and time to evacuate. Why do these people insist on living in a flood zone?

We're talking about white people here, your criticisms are unjustified.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute		2007-08-26 09:36:38 AM

Are you laughin' now, Biatches?

Some_TV_Guy		2007-08-26 09:37:17 AM

Yes, submitard...

There were never any severe storms before global warming was brought to our attention.

/we're not in Kansas anymore, manbearpig

Maui Haui		2007-08-26 09:37:18 AM

Boo friggin' hoo. I'm in Dhaka, Bangladesh right now. Try over 1 million stranded, without food, power, clean water, shelter or anyone that gives a flying fark.

The capitol is swarming with people that don't know what to do or who to turn to. Really a pitiful sight. How many threads have you seen about that lately on Fark? How many articles have you seen anywhere about it? Not to many I bet.

abagdan		2007-08-26 09:37:37 AM

Severe storms? In the Midwest?

/It's more likely than you think.

labomba		2007-08-26 09:39:19 AM

Hi,
we're 'the global warming people',

it's not a layman's term

Greetings,

Global warming peoples representative

Heroic Poser		2007-08-26 09:39:30 AM

And yet tribes in Africa feel nothing for you.

Bevets		2007-08-26 09:39:43 AM

Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms

Flip Flop

Ramen Pride!		2007-08-26 09:39:43 AM

BLADES OF GLORY AT MAXIMUM VOLUME

That popup needs to die. WTF Fark?

herrhitmann		2007-08-26 09:39:50 AM

There is no such thing as an unsevere storm in the midwest.

KoWT		2007-08-26 09:41:13 AM

Leave the scientists alone

blame the investors (also known as the "owners" in our blessed "ownership society")

"we want max profits from the utility company, so lets not have replacement parts in stock...we'll order them as we need them and wait (in the dark) for them to be delivered...if things go really poorly, the government'll bail us out...break!" :claps hands:

Parkeway		2007-08-26 09:41:56 AM

"Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms""...

Cause this never happened before Global Warming was kewl...

/Severe storms?
//in Summer?
///Say it ain't so!

dennysgod		2007-08-26 09:42:43 AM

Subbie is an idiot, no mention of global warming. It storms in the midwest all the fricking time. Besides models of global warming show that this area will be receiving less then normal rain fall while areas to the north (upper great lakes and Canada) would receive more. If you're going to try to start a global warming flame war, let the MSM do it.

Space_Poet		2007-08-26 09:43:00 AM

Global warming people? Do you mean scientists?

Supercheeks		2007-08-26 09:43:09 AM

I'm pretty sure severe storms have been around for awhile.

ianfer		2007-08-26 09:44:23 AM

Yea yea, the greenhouse effect, the whole world is getting warmer, like summer all year long..."
www.supercollage.com

"Now eat some soylent green and calm down."

dilemma		2007-08-26 09:44:32 AM

We've had extreme weather since we've had weather.

Nothing to see here.

DocsInOKC		2007-08-26 09:44:44 AM

Maui Haui: Boo friggin' hoo. I'm in Dhaka, Bangladesh right now. Try over 1 million stranded, without food, power, clean water, shelter or anyone that gives a flying fark.

The capitol is swarming with people that don't know what to do or who to turn to. Really a pitiful sight. How many threads have you seen about that lately on Fark? How many articles have you seen anywhere about it? Not to many I bet.

And yet you manage to post on fark. Must be really bad where you are. Don't belittle the plight of those who are suffering no matter how easy you think they have it. If you were personally suffering that bad, you wouldn't be able to post on fark and your outrage would be directed toward bettering yourself.

So where is the government in Dhaka? I give a large part of my income to help the poor overseas. Don't preach to me about how I don't care. Go complain to the mainstream media, turn someone's head there and someone will come along to help.

Now, let's be serious, its the midwest. It floods every year that there's not a drought. Quitcherbiatchin!

/Lives on a hill in a flood prone area. When the rains come, we just lock down the home and hope the river subsides before the food rots.

Parkeway		2007-08-26 09:45:08 AM

Pssst, subby: I thought we were calling it "Global Climate Change" just in case it does something we didn't predict?....

foil helmet guy		2007-08-26 09:45:18 AM

I blame my hangover on global warming.

TheSignPost		2007-08-26 09:46:32 AM

heehee

People still think global warming is a myth.

So funny. Denial.... it's not a dried-up riverbed in Egypt.

proteon		2007-08-26 09:48:12 AM

There is no way humans have impacted this planets eccosystem.

Also moustaches are where it's at.

So are fanny packs.

Thank you.

FunkyBlue		2007-08-26 09:51:58 AM

I live in the midwest and I'm getting a kick of all the morons that think Al Gore invented severe storms.

RabidDog		2007-08-26 09:52:07 AM

Maui Haui: I'm in Dhaka, Bangladesh right now. Try over 1 million stranded, without food, power, clean water, shelter or anyone that gives a flying fark.

As long as you are safe and secure, sipping your latte and posting on fark.

Bevets		2007-08-26 09:52:08 AM

Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms"

Flip Flop

Space_Poet

Global warming people? Do you mean scientists?

I sometimes think scientists really don't notice that their colleagues have flaws. But in my experience scientists are very human people: which means that some are troubled, deceitful, petty or vain. ~ Michael Crichton

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. ~ Michael Crichton

I expected science to be, in Carl Sagan's memorable phrase, "a candle in a demon haunted world." And here, I am not so pleased with the impact of science. Rather than serving as a cleansing force, science has in some instances been seduced by the more ancient lures of politics and publicity. Some of the demons that haunt our world in recent years are invented by scientists. ~ Michael Crichton

DrunkJack		2007-08-26 09:52:42 AM

Yes, because it never ever stormed ever before so it MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING!

LouDobbsAwaaaay		2007-08-26 09:53:21 AM

Oh come on! Are we going to have a global warming thread every time the weather deviates even a little from climatology?

This argument is pointless, it's clear that the vast majority on both sides know next to nothing about it.

smitty1276		2007-08-26 09:53:51 AM

Niiice, non sequitur flamebait, smitty.

rbanzai		2007-08-26 09:53:57 AM

Proteon, I was with you until the fanny packs. In one small sentence you went from intellectual giant of the ages to plain ol' batshiat crazy.

THERE ARE NO HEROES LEFT

//weeps

soy_bomb		2007-08-26 09:55:19 AM

Yes, severe storms never happened before Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet.

/Noah is not impressed...

maxheck		2007-08-26 09:56:32 AM

Storms? In the midwest?

My goodness, what next?

/ nice way to get an instagreen, Smitty!

Maui Haui		2007-08-26 09:56:47 AM

DocsInOKC: And yet you manage to post on fark. Must be really bad where you are.

I'm comfy in my room at the Radisson at this moment, thanks for your concern. It is really bad where I am. I've been in several flash floods and it's taken hours to get back to the hotel from my jobsite that is less than 10 miles away. I won't go tit for tat with you about how much you give to the less fortunate. Thank you. I am more of a "hands on" kind of guy. When you send your $10 out maybe $.05 gets to anyone that needs it. I know where my money goes.

But really, thanks for your contributions.

sinner3405		2007-08-26 09:57:01 AM

Bevets: Hey, didn't the global warming people mention something about "severe storms"

Flip Flop

Space_Poet

Global warming people? Do you mean scientists?

I sometimes think scientists really don't notice that their colleagues have flaws. But in my experience scientists are very human people: which means that some are troubled, deceitful, petty or vain. ~ Michael Crichton

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. ~ Michael Crichton

I expected science to be, in Carl Sagan's memorable phrase, "a candle in a demon haunted world." And here, I am not so pleased with the impact of science. Rather than serving as a cleansing force, science has in some instances been seduced by the more ancient lures of politics and publicity. Some of the demons that haunt our world in recent years are invented by scientists. ~ Michael Crichton

Your point being? That scientists are human and have human failings? Imagine that.

macbrak		2007-08-26 09:57:24 AM

not one person in these comments claimed global warming was a myth, just claimed the submitter was a dork for suggesting that flooding in a flood plain caused by storms during storm season was not caused by global warming.

sinner3405		2007-08-26 09:57:51 AM

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Oh come on! Are we going to have a global warming thread every time the weather deviates even a little from climatology?

This argument is pointless, it's clear that the vast majority on both sides know next to nothing about it.

Stop trying to bury the truth... YOU KNOW WHERE MANBEARPIG IS DONT YOU?

Jacques Lestrap		2007-08-26 09:58:12 AM

ndotseth		2007-08-26 09:58:54 AM

Denial??
The Global Warming zealots are in denial that severe weather is as old as the Earth.
Let's all open our wallets and throw money at a problem that has been around for 4 billion years!

Action Replay Nick		2007-08-26 10:00:19 AM

Global warming is a big conspiracy hoax fuelled by liberal organizations who use it to generate income. I know this is true because Michael Crichton wrote a documentary about it.

sinner3405		2007-08-26 10:00:20 AM

ndotseth: Denial??
The Global Warming zealots are in denial that severe weather is as old as the Earth.
Let's all open our wallets and throw money at a problem that has been around for 4 billion years!

By zealots are you referring to the three or four trolls that have read this thread on FARK?

LouDobbsAwaaaay		2007-08-26 10:01:08 AM

sinner3405: Stop trying to bury the truth... YOU KNOW WHERE MANBEARPIG IS DONT YOU?

I've never understood what was supposed to be so funny about manbearpig. Do you just have to really, really hate Al Gore in order to find it funny?

James T. Smirk		2007-08-26 10:01:19 AM

Palm Sunday tornado outbreak occurred on April 11, 1965 and involved 78 tornadoes (38 significant, 19 violent, 21 killers) hitting the Midwest. Two hundred seventy one people were killed and 1,500 injured (1,200 in Indiana). It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana history with 137 people killed. The outbreak also made that week the second most active week in history with 51 significant and 21 violent tornadoes.

Not Impressed

DrunkJack		2007-08-26 10:03:01 AM

Also, over 100,000 people without power isn't...y'know, a drop in the bucket. How many people live in Ohio? 11 million? 110,000 would be 1%. What an astronomical? number!

Not saying being without power for a while doesn't suck, it was farking weird when the 03 Blackout hit here. 40 Million people were without power. Now THAT is a problem.

/still remembers driving to check on g'ma with dad on empty highways and surface streets without street lights, leadfoot is doing 90 since there's no one around.
//never seen a night so black.

am_forgiven		2007-08-26 10:03:38 AM

Unimaginative submitter + Global warming = neverending flaimbaits, lame headlines and drag-out threads.

Enough already.

sinner3405		2007-08-26 10:03:59 AM

LouDobbsAwaaaay: sinner3405: Stop trying to bury the truth... YOU KNOW WHERE MANBEARPIG IS DONT YOU?

I've never understood what was supposed to be so funny about manbearpig. Do you just have to really, really hate Al Gore in order to find it funny?

You don't know of manbearpig's origin or are you just a really really uptight liberal?

If A: Its referencing a south park episode where Al Gore claims to know of a creature named Manbearpig that roams the earth killing and attacking people.

If B: Get a sense of humor.

kanuti		2007-08-26 10:04:28 AM

I know I will be called an idiot but I still fail to see how Ohio is concidered mid west. Columbus, OH to NYC 535 miles, Columbus, OH to San Francisco, CA. 2453 miles. Mid east perhaps?