Weather Report

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

 Longfellow

Or, failing that, blame global warming ("climate change" in the revised lexicon of doom) and get mad at John McCain.

Comments

[Lazarus Long]

We didn't see that one coming, did we?

[Chris Campion]

Ah, the Herald. I’m assuming the flood of 1927 was also due to global warming or “climate change”, in the vernacular. I guess they just didn’t know what was causing floods then, other than a lot of rain. Unlike certain previous presidential candidates, I don’t claim to be a climatologist or planetologist. But I didn’t realize weather was a static system and change was considered to be out of the ordinary. I guess all the NOAA computers used to model weather systems are wasting billions of processing cycles trying to divine future weather events for this static system of weather we seemed to have been blessed with - up until smog started to cause Greenland to catch fire.

The fact is that NOAA reports VT precipitation in calendar year 2008 to date (Jan-June) is 18.94 inches (measures taken at the Burlington International Airport). The average rate for VT for the same timeframe (Jan-June) is (gasp!) 14.78 inches. Well, there you have it, Rutland Herald – 4.16 more inches of rain than average have fallen this year! Where has the national media been to report this onslaught of liquid disaster? Why hasn’t the federal government opened the piggy bank and sent us checks so we can buy umbrellas and squeegees pronto? Should we all start huddling in a SuperDome to await emergency airlift to ground that is 4 inches higher than our current elevation?

Once again, I would hate for inconvenient facts to deter the local Papers of Record. As John Adams famously said, “Facts are stubborn things”. Well, if you’re the Rutland Herald, it turns out that facts are not so stubborn when you can gleefully ignore them in a rush to conflate policy issues in order to condemn a Republican presidential candidate. The illogical contortions required to generate this conclusion sound more painful than would a quick perusal of www.noaa.gov, but who are we to question the right-thinking brains of the Herald?

[GreggB]

We all know how incentives work. Montpelier needs to tax non-standard weather that'll show mother nature who's boss.

[Sheldon Katz]

I'm not a regular Rutland Herald reader, so this editorial was a jaw dropper. And I love the connection to Obama's tire inflation scheme. Why someone didn't think of this before I don't know.

Finally, can anybody explain why and how global climate change caused the third wettest summer on record?

[Brattleboro_conservative]

This latest editorial piece of fantasy from the Rutland Herald is proof positive why the mainstream media is not worth anything anymore. I've never read anything more inane other than articles the New York Times sees fit to print. The next question is: what happens when this current generation comes of age and finds out that Global Warming is just a hoax? God help us all!