Ketchikan, Alaska is known for two things: salmon and rain. I know this well as I have been here several times visiting family. The combination of wind and rain often makes it feel like you are living in a car wash. Ketchikan, which is located on the inland passage in southeast Alaska, has fully embraced it's status at the Rain City . It proudly displays a "liquid sunshine gauge" on the boat dock showing just how wet it is. A closeup shows that they claim an average rainfall of 12.5 ft (150") per year. That's a lot of rain and, perhaps not surprisingly, Ketchikan is widely promoted as the rainiest city in America (e.g., destimationalaska.com ). Being a meteorologist, I began to wonder if this was really the case. There are the usual challenges in evaluating such a claim. What is meant by a city? What is the period of record? Is the data reliable? Etc... For the purposes of this post, we'll concentrate on clima...
That it's possible to be a clime and/or evolution denier in the US and not be a political pariah but rather a leading candidate for the presidency shows just how broken both politics and science education is.
ReplyDeleteBachmann's statement is so ridiculous it's embarrasing to even dignify it with a response, although maybe it is necessary. So I have, here:
http://www.lukesci.com/2011/08/17/michelle-bachmann-is-climate-illiterate/
Apologies for the language errors: "climate" not "clime" and "politics and education are" not "is".
ReplyDeleteWow, I think Bachmann should enroll in atmos 1020. In fact, all politicians probably should.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Bachmann should hook herself up to a gas mask that only lets her breath co2 and see if she still thinks its harmfull then.
ReplyDeleteHere is a list I compiled of what EACH and EVERY one of the present 2012 Republican candidates says about climate change and evolution (with videos, quotes, sources, etc.):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lukesci.com/2011/09/06/all-of-the-2012-republican-candidates-on-climate-and-evolution/