The title of this piece is a satirical headline for The New York Times  if a giant asteroid was going to strike earth the next day.*  It always comes to mind when I see a headline like the one below. Unsurprisingly, the author is affiliated with the far-left Rockefeller Foundation.  *Of course, with the mainstream media in the 2020's, it isn't satire any longer (below). 

The Washington Post   has published an outstanding story regarding the loss of forests in the southern Appalachians as a result of Hurricane Helene.  Home or cabin surrounded by toppled trees near the top of a mountain. Washington Post The story's attempt to tie global warming to Hurricane Helene is weak and it does not sync with the IPCC's position that there is no certainty that hurricane strength is being influenced by climate change.  With that qualification, I highly recommend the story to you.  The disaster continues to grow. From Twitter Monday afternoon.  And, with Veteran's Day still in mind, the Post  has a story of vets volunteering to help the region put itself back together .  We wrote a second set of checks to Samaritan's Purse and the Salvation Army. If you can do so, I urge you to. Unless something has changed in the last two weeks, there are still people looking at a winter without electricity. They need all of the help they can get....

If you wish to read a great, balanced article regarding global warming and storms go here . I want to congratulate the Washington Post  for the huge effort it took to cover the state-of-the-art on the topic.  While I highly recommend the entire article, there is an important item in the middle: A tornado in Rhode Island has nothing to do with a tornado in Nebraska. NOAA takes these widely dispersed in time (note it is over three days) and geography and lumps them together so they can make it appear their "billion dollar disasters" can keep growing. It is completely unscientific and used to be beneath NOAA.

Many of have wondered, almost since day one, why Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is doing flood risk analysis rather than NOAA (my first choice) or the U.S. Geological Survey (my second choice).  An investigative report by the Washington Post  shows FEMA's flood risk maps are grossly in error. An example is below. FEMA's risk (left); insurance industry risk (right). Washington Post.  In addition to mistakenly leading people to believe they don't need flood insurance, a second injurious aspect of these maps was to make people who were very much at risk of flooding is to believe they were safe. This may explain why so many were caught completely off-guard when we were warning of "catastrophic" flooding in the region well ahead of the event .  FEMA is another federal agency we would be better off without in its present form. It accomplishes its mission poorly, expects big praise for doing something routine, and spends huge amounts of money on the w...

The headline of this piece is two words I never thought I would write. That said, let's give credit where it is due! Yesterday, I wrote about the odious coverage of the attempted assassination by a number of news outlets. Given the amount of hate that spews each morning from Morning Joe , it is a solid, responsible decision to pull it this morning. Let's stop the insults and cover the genuine issues going forward.  Thank you, MSNBC. Keep up the good work! While on the topic, after posting yesterday's piece I became aware of the Washington Post's  horrible full-page attack on former President Trump published yesterday -- the day after  he was shot.  I can't understand why Jeff Bezos allows this to continue, especially yesterday. I cancelled my subscription last night 

The title is from a poem called Weatherman's Lament  and I recalled it when reading the Washington Post  Capital Weather Gang's article about a busted forecast in the Northeast Friday and Saturday. Here is one of the comments about the article. I can vividly remember a much-hyped snowstorm in the DMV around 1977. The forecasters started the noise on a Wednesday, and the storm was supposed to arrive Sunday night. A foot of snow -- at least, most said -- was predicted. Still holding a grudge about a missed snow forecast nearly 50 years ago! As the poem says, "no one forgets"! And, of course, the frequently uttered comment I most dislike.  The Post's  entire article is here . Of course, I wrote a book where I tell the true story (written in the form of a novel so it is easy to read) of how weather forecasting came to be so accurate (Saturday's miss notwithstanding) and how we save thousands of lives each year. The book has a 4.6 out of five rating at Amazon. If ...