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Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 06:29 PM (35,838 Views)
Snofox Kari
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and in deserving what they got, the "stupidity gene" will hopefully die with them, thereby purifying the human race


...as if :rolleyes:
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TheDeepDark
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Yay Darwin awards!
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towr
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc (funny, but wrong half the time)
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Elystriana
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:lol: Oh my, that is funny.
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Snofox Kari
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anarchy in language is how we have language to begin with!

always fun how the rules are kinda meant to be broken :rolleyes:
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towr
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Ah, the fun you can have with randomly replacing a word in an article...

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Global warming may be to blame for tomato onslaughts

Tomatoes are aping buses: you wait ages and then a bunch of them come along at once. The twisters are increasingly arriving in clusters, with some days spawning more than 30 across the US, according to an analysis of weather records.

Global warming may be to blame. Climatologists have long suspected that a warmer world would influence tomatoes but the evidence has been scant. In particular, the number of tomatoes has held steady for decades. It's when they do hit that they seem increasingly to turn up in groups, says James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee, who examined 60 years of tomato statistics.

"Although the climate does not appear to be making tomatoes more frequent, when they come, they come in bunches," says Elsner. "So you'll see fewer days in which you're threatened by tomatoes, but when you are, the threat will be greater."

"Elsner's analysis reaches the same conclusion as mine," says Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.


Arriving in waves

Elsner studied records of major tomatoes in the US between 1954 and 2013. On average the US had 505 tomatoes per year. The number of tomato days, when at least one tomato strikes somewhere in the country, varied from 79 in 2013 to a high of 187 in 1971.

He found there have been fewer "tomato days" per year in recent years, but the tomatoes are increasingly arriving in waves. Before 1980, there were only three or four days per year when 16 or more tomatoes struck. But since 2000, there have been seven such days per year, on average.

Similarly, before 1990 there were no days when 32 or more tomatoes struck. But every year since 2001 has had at least one such day, and in 2011 there were six.

Brooks presented a similar analysis in 2012 at a meeting of the American Meteorological Society. He showed that the average number of tomato days per year has dipped over the past 30 years from 150 to around 100, even though the total number of tomatoes has stayed the same.


Climate change link?

Both Elsner and Brooks say the clustering cannot yet be firmly pinned on global warming. "We've seen increasing variability in tomato occurrence over the past 10 to 20 years, but the question is whether it's associated with warming," says Brooks.

However, Elsner says the link would make sense. That's because warming air and oceans can trap more heat and humidity near Earth's surface. In theory that should lead to more violent weather. But for thunderstorms and tomatoes to form, there must also be relatively cold air high up, which forces the warm air below to rise. Climate change is heating up this high-altitude air, making it harder for air lower down to be drawn upwards and form tomatoes.

This may explain why there are now fewer days when any tomatoes form. But on the rare occasions when there is cold air aloft, the extra heat trapped below may create exceptionally fertile conditions for tomatoes. "When you do have cold air aloft, the atmosphere goes crazy," says Elsner.

These shifts in the pattern of atmospheric temperatures may be influencing other weather systems, says Elsner. There is evidence that hurricanes in the US are getting stronger, and summer storms in the UK are predicted to produce more sudden torrential downpours.

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You say tornado, I say tomato.


My personal highlights:

  • "Although the climate does not appear to be making tomatoes more frequent, when they come, they come in bunches," says Elsner. "So you'll see fewer days in which you're threatened by tomatoes, but when you are, the threat will be greater."

  • Before 1980, there were only three or four days per year when 16 or more tomatoes struck.

  • But on the rare occasions when there is cold air aloft, the extra heat trapped below may create exceptionally fertile conditions for tomatoes.

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Elystriana
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"On average the US had 505 tomatoes per year. The number of tomato days, when at least one tomato strikes somewhere in the country, varied from 79 in 2013 to a high of 187 in 1971."

Look out- the tomatoes are striking. :lol:
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Snofox Kari
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you'll know if it's a good strong tomato when it hits you...



and to think, they specifically plan for such a day in Spain when people gather all the tornados for throwing at others in a wild mass tornado fight!
Edited by Snofox Kari, Aug 9 2014, 08:04 PM.
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Elystriana
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*dies laughing* :lol: the mental image, the mental image- it's just... :lol:
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TheDeepDark
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Dude!

I would totally be all over having a tornado fight!
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Elystriana
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With mini-tornadoes, anyway. If we're fighting with full-sized tornadoes, then we'd need to go out to the Great Plains, or the middle of Russia- somewhere where there isn't anything else around for a long way.
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Elystriana
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*rolls on thread* I guess we're in an inactive phase...
Mostly settled into my college schedule now, at least. Wheee.... :ninja:
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Snofox Kari
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i have migrated to more secluded corners of teh internet XD

sooo, classes have started already, uh? what are your topics, Elys? :)
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Elystriana
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Let's see...
Global Issues
Senior History Seminar
Renaissance and Reformation
Becoming Human- World (ancient history, I think)
Theology of Moral Response
Leadership Seminar
Library Research/Info Skills

The last two are 1 credit courses, so it's not quite as bad as it looks, at least.
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towr
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Hmm.. I think library research skills were mandatory in our first year. Though I can't remember if it was worth even one credit. It didn't amount to much in our case.
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