From the linked article:How could you not name a heat wave “Gary” given that Garys are so hot? https://t.co/N1qEY7G1ot
— Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart) July 26, 2023
Alan Kennedy-Asser, a researcher at the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute for the Environment, similarly wondered: “If we name every peak in every heat wave, we might run out of ominous, hellish names relatively quickly, and could end up with the much less sinister sounding Heat Wave Gary.”
Some public health experts said naming a heat wave Gary might not be so bad — because even if you believe extreme heat should jolt people awake about human-driven climate change, as far as immediate action, public heath officials don’t want people to panic, but to do something sensible. Like find air conditioning. Or drink more water.
Friederike Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London, said she appreciated “the hell-themed names given to the recent ones,” because deadly heat waves are the “closest we get to Hieronymus Bosch in this world,” she said referring to the Renaissance-era painter known for his depictions of hell.
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Global warming is characterized by the coldest place, not the warmest.
The coldest place on earth gets that way by radiating into space, something that CO2 blocks. So the coldest place on earth ought to be getting warmer, if that CO2 is getting worse.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on earth was in 2022.
"A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big...Shel-don."
Heatwave named Sheldon when?
How you say your life is soul-deadeningly safe and dull without saying the same out loud?
Start naming a summer heat wave occurring in wealthy and technologically advanced countries.
Ha! ISWYDT
Or should I say, 'I see what the X did there'.
I was literally there last year and it was 39 degrees (103 in 'merican) but mostly there is NO shade and the rock and marble just make you feel like if you had a Jiffy Pop you could make popcorn.
It was un-named because apparently last year it was just hot and people were glad to be out of COVID lockdown.
-XC
Heat wave Greta is the only fitting name.
Since climate change is not human driven, this really is a moot point.
they should give heat waves a girl's name.. I suggest: SUMMER
Hmmm... maybe we can start naming major crime-weeks in large cities. If there is a certain level of crime that is significantly above the national average it get's a name. It would be just as manipulative as naming heat waves. We should also name weeks where Hunter Biden out earns what his skill set should reasonably allow. We can call those Hunter Windfall-Weeks.
"...deadly heat waves are the 'closest we get to Hieronymus Bosch in this world' ” Survivors of Hiroshima beg to differ.
Just name them all "Trump" - that way he can take the blame for more things he is not responsible for. Or perhaps "White Boy" or just "Whitey", or maybe "Systemic Racism" since it is the proximate cause of all bad things on the planet, according to the 'progressives'.
WaPo is up to the task of climate propaganda. One comment on the article states
"Let's come up with a list of names of public officials that deny the existence of man made acceleration of climate change and start from there. I can quickly submit a few, Donald, Ron, Ted, Kevin, Mitch, Marjorie, Kari."
Yup, clearly the 'right wing' people causing all the problems, everywhere, all the time.
If you read and listen to what these empty headed people are saying, its the basic MSM Democrat talking points. And they have become more extreme, as have the ones on this blog.
Sheep are being readied to put people into camps, or jails, or who knows, to purify America. Seriously, people actually think that way.
And using the word purify was deliberate. Both Russian and Chinese and Cambodian totalitarians have expressed just those thoughts and words to justify killing millions of people.
But yeah, can't happen in America, right?
Ask the J6 political prisoners, or those out of work and careers because of wrong think on covid, or gender.
Ok, go back to sleep now. No need to be excited. let's worry about which star did what to another celebrity....or the finer points of Trumps show trial. Have you read the comments on the trials during Stalin, or Mao? they sound just like many on this blog. arguing about points of law, when the legal system has ceased to exist.
Summer. Name them all, “Summer.”
I agree, Garys are hot. Smart too.
Gary??? Nah! On the other hand heat wave “Mike” would be truly scary. Oceans boiling, volcanoes erupting, tsunamis on every single beach in the world, and the sun blotted out by the clouds of steam. Yeah, that sort of thing.
They are already named: July and August.
Batshit hysterics outbreak, Karen, doesn't seem to be abating any time soon.
How could you not name a heat wave "Gary" ...
Wikipedia: There are several definitions of heat waves.
So, the heat wave namers have some work to do before looking for names. And work is likely not what they are looking for.
Now, That's funny! I don't care who you are.
Sponge Bob has a pet snail named Gary.
According to Channel 3000 weather last week, all the high temp records for Madison for last week were set in the late 40's and mid to late 50's.
It's called summer people.
Naming heat waves or snow storms or anything is all part of the catasphrozing of regular weather. The weather people want to create conflict and controversy in order to get viewers.
"But did you die?" In the case of hurricanes, the names are on a cyclical list that repeats every six years, and only in the case of storms that cause a lot of death and destruction is a name retired from the list and replaced with a new one. Most years have at least one storm bad enough for the name to be retired. A really bad year like 1955 or 2005 or 2017 would have four or five storm names retired. The last year with no storms bad enough for a retirement was 2014.
In the case of other weather events like winter storms, "heat waves," etc., it seems like a bit of drama queenery. Bad weather is nothing new. Naming "heat waves" and painting 80 degree temperatures in red on the weather map is just so much exaggeration.
The heat is a certain bitch/bastard. It needs no name beyond that.
At present, tropical cyclones are officially named by one of twelve meteorological services and retain their names throughout their lifetimes to provide ease of communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings.
Wikipedia
The Global Warmers don't want any kind of official definition of a "Global Warming Event" so they're happy making up names for each and every type of weather event that contains the word warm, hot, warming, heat, extreme ...
It wasn't supposed to rain today. Very unusual. We will call it rain storm Daisy.
the-man-who-manufactured-weather
A big heat wave the size of a small heat wave.
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