From the White House Twitter feed moments ago:
Morning commute. pic.twitter.com/uhliY9xNEZ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 16, 2013
I think that is the perfect Monday morning message for citizens facing an actual commute. Don’t you?
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redc1c4 (abd49e) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:16 amit’s like they’re in a whole different world from the one we live in, no?
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:19 amAbout 1/3 of the country has been dumped on with snow over the last 4 days. We woke up to a new coating of global warming. This is how Teh Won roughs it prior to his 2 and a half week Hawaiian vacay.
JD (5c1832) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:29 amThe Secret Service maybe wouldn’t let Obama’s official photographer get any closer.
Or maybe the National Intelligence Director insisted he be ket out of earshot.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:31 amComment by JD (5c1832) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:29 am
We woke up to a new coating of global warming
Also the Middle East. Biggest snowstorm in Jerusalem in around 20 years and Kerry almost got stuck on the West Bank, because the crossings were going to be cloed on account of snow. Egypt had its biggest snowfall in 100 yars. The Syrian Civil War in Aleppo was snowed out. Refugees in Lebanon are freezing.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:35 amThis is one of those cases in which I won’t criticize the White House; everyone knows that the President doesn’t have to drive to work.
And, quite frankly, after Winter Storm
The realistic Dana (3e4784) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:41 amElaineElectra totally fouled up things obver the weekend, the roads have been taken care of in my neck of the woods. The Borough of Jim Thorpe and PennDOT did a fine job. The Borough of Lehighton, on the other hand, did their usual lousy job.Do you think that it’s possible that the Levant had such a snowstorm because Secretary of State Kerry was there giving them a snow job?
The snarky Dana (3e4784) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:42 amWasn’t Kerry over there to talk about Global Warming?
JD (5c1832) — 12/16/2013 @ 7:46 amThey misspelled “commune”.
Icy (fc44ff) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:01 amTheir answer (in the vein of “Buy a new car”)? “Maybe you should move closer to work.”
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:02 amMaybe the Gore Effect also works for other Democrats who lost to G. W. Bush?
Dr. Weevil (dba112) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:02 amThey misspelled “commune”.
Or “Canute”.
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:03 amThere is something of old Louis in this fellow, isn’t there?
And the sad part is how much Left loves this particular aristocrat. It’s yet more narcissism; they think he is like them.
When the truth is, this fellow thinks he is better than they are.
The term “useful fools” comes to mind. It turns out that wily old Ulyanov never actually wrote that. Ludwig von Mises used the term “useful innocents,” which is kinder.
But “fools” is more accurate. “Hey, Rube!” as Glenn Reynolds often reminds BHO voters.
Simon Jester (ccd968) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:05 amI bet he dreads his commute these days.
“How many more days do I have before we can go home, Valerie?”
Patricia (be0117) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:13 amSometimes I think they’ve hired propaganda specialists from North Korea.
SPQR (768505) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:23 am“How many more days do I have before we can go home, Valerie?”
Faster.
Kevin M (536c5d) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:28 amCommute his term.
mg (31009b) — 12/16/2013 @ 9:44 amHe might as well have labeled it “Eat my dick your muffafukahs!”
Rodney King's Spirit (11dcd5) — 12/16/2013 @ 11:20 ami’m thing “life w/o parole” in Supermax….
does that w*rk for everyone else? 😎
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 12/16/2013 @ 11:26 amYou have to wonder what the conversation that takes place when deciding what pictures of the zipster will be released, and what the caption will read.
[taking big hit off joint]
Dude, the president can walk to work!
Whoa, I never thought about that. That’s like the coolest thing ever!
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 12/16/2013 @ 12:38 pmFTFM!
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 12/16/2013 @ 12:47 pmNot only did He make the oceans stop rising, but He also stopped the snow from falling.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 12/16/2013 @ 1:21 pmOh, please. These days, fewer people than ever have to commute to work*, so it is hardly tin-eared to make the joke.
*Because they don’t have jobs, but that is beside the point.
bridget (eed13e) — 12/16/2013 @ 6:04 pm18. ‘Tin ear’ is being kind to a fault.
http://minx.cc/?post=345762
I’m sure the Whig’s anointed will win most of their primaries. I just don’t think they can close the deal.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:04 pmMorning commute.
“Let them eat cake.”
Mark (58ea35) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:08 pm3. Old news, but Cairo had its first snow in 112 years.
Arctic ice for this date up 50% over last.
Oz is seeing significant snow on their ski hills. That is not like snow in Boulder around June 16. These are only hills.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:09 pmhttp://washingtonexaminer.com/the-republican-establishment-and-insurgent-groups-brace-for-all-out-war/article/2540722/comments#disqus_thread
narciso (3fec35) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:10 pm27. http://riehlworldview.com/?p=32496
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:24 pmWhy doesn’t he walk down a hall? It’s December.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:24 pm3. Cont.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/15/over-half-the-usa-covered-in-snow-the-most-in-11-years/
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:25 pmI think there is 3% to 5% more dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere than there used to be.
It is created by burning natural gas and oil, but not coal.
This is an extremely potent greenhouse gas.
But at temperatures just below freezing, tends to fall to the earth as snow.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:40 pmSammy, you sure that gas isn’t filling the room your in?
mg (31009b) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:57 pmAt least he didn’t go in until after 10am. Saved the country from 2 hours of executive orders.
Mike M (a7a4f2) — 12/17/2013 @ 5:49 amSure, just a misunderstanding;
http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/classy-shady-david-brock-groups-stalks-kelly-ayotte-at-a-new-hampshire-memorial-service/
narciso (3fec35) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:08 amI actually like this picture very much – the angles and the composition – and the clouds and the bare tgrees and the green on the ground- but the two small figures in the background detract somewhat from it.
Is that really supposed to be President Obama and an aide?
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:21 am31. The last figgers I’ve seen are 1.5-2% more water vapor. The primary climatic effect of this increase is increased cloudiness increasing the Earth’s albedo reflecting more Solar energy into space.
The energy that reaches the surface is re-emitted as longwave infra-red wavelengths which greenhouse gases, low-pressure, low-temperature gases promptly share with their surroundings as kinetic energy. Water and CO2 increase their molecular bond length vibration on absorption.
Dirt and green leaves have 500 times the emissivity of these low-pressure gases, i.e., will re-emit the energy in 1/500th the time(as a coefficient in the physical expression) that the gases require.
Moreover the low-pressure gases, primarily nitrogen and oxygen, will re-emit at another secular frequency than that which the greenhouse gas absorbed the energy.
The upshot is the direction of the flow of evolved energy from the Earth is overwhelmingly from the surface through the atmosphere back into space. The atmosphere only heats the surface when it is warmer and primarily by conduction.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:28 am32. Comment by mg (31009b) — 12/16/2013 @ 8:57 pm
Sammy, you sure that gas isn’t filling the room your in?
No, even though I think I sometimes can hear some heated dihydrogen monoxide hissing. You never seem to notice it though. You usually hear it around 6 am in the morning or earlier.
You never see a high concentration, except on very foggy days, and that only outside, and it usually dissipates pretty quickly. I think this happened one morning last week.
When that happens, you’re in a cloud.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:28 am36. Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:28 am
Water and CO2 increase their molecular bond length vibration on absorption.
Is that a way of saying it’s temperaature rises, or is something else going on?
I read that the average bond angle of water can change with temperature and other things) and that affects ioits ability to dissolve everything..
If the main effect of H2O in the atmosphere is to cool the planet, why is it called agreehouse gas, and more potent than CO2. I thought maybe H2O has opposite effects depending on what state it is in.
The upshot is the direction of the flow of evolved energy from the Earth is overwhelmingly from the surface through the atmosphere back into space.
Yes, it is radiated back out and the higher you go, the cooler the temperature.
I just read that in the stratosphere, at the altitude of a jetliner, the temperature is minus 30 degrees, and someone recommended (in a newspaper) not to sit by a window or wear a sweater, because the air leaks a little. (!) I know the inside pressure is kept to the equivalent of 8,000 feet.
The atmosphere only heats the surface when it is warmer and primarily by conduction.
When warm air is blown over. It is harder to change the tempeature of water than air so the oceans tend to say at around the same temperature during an average day.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 12/17/2013 @ 7:36 am36. Is that a way of saying it’s temperaature rises, or is something else going on?
Temperature is a measure of average collision energy of the gas and here the greenhouse gases are a minor component of the whole. They rapidy share their vibrational energy in collisions with the major components raising not their temperature, per se, but that of the gas they comprise.
Water is unique in existing in our environment and experience in one of three states. As a solid on energy absorption, that energy is communicated instantly via the crystalline lattice, and changes in bond angle and length are restricted.
The emissivity of liquid water is only 60% that of dirt, set its specific heat, the amount of energy it can store is twice that of dirt.
The result is that the Southern Ocean is the Earth’s heat reservoir and the Northern Hemisphere the Earth’s radiator fins, metaphorically.
It is harder to change the tempeature of water than air so the oceans tend to say at around the same temperature during an average day.
Harder because the heat capacity of a unit of water is on the order of 1000 times that equivalent mass of the atmosphere.
Still, the Earth, via the Stephan-Boltzman relation, is evolving heat all the time at the fourth power of the temperature, but while it is being heated at the fifth power.
This in turn results in atmospheric concentrations of CO2, in particular, changing by 10% over the oceans during a 24-hour period, because by Hansen’s Law, colder water at low pressure absorbs CO2, at higher temperatures it evolves out of solution into the air.
At the bottom of the oceans, at cold temperatures and very high pressure, CO2 precipitates out of solution as salts of Calcium and Magnesium, which we ingest for acid indigestion.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/17/2013 @ 8:06 am“yet its specific heat”, Doh.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 12/17/2013 @ 8:11 amThanks be to God that they had someone there to open the door for O’bumbles, or he might still be standing there bumping against the closed door.
firefirefire (b0457e) — 12/17/2013 @ 8:58 amWhich might be the best thing for the Nation.
Sometimes I think they’ve hired propaganda specialists from North Korea.
Mark (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:39 amWe woke up to a new coating of global warming
Hoang (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:40 amDirt and green leaves have 500 times the emissivity of these low-pressure gases, i.e.,
Hoan (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:40 amwill re-emit the energy in 1/500th the time(as a coefficient in the physical expression) that the gases require.
Tom (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:40 amTemperature is a measure of average collision energy of the gas and here the greenhouse gases are a minor component of the whole.
Tony (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:41 amThe emissivity of liquid water is only 60% that of dirt, set its specific heat, the amount of energy it can store is twice that of dirt.
Trang (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:41 amThis is an extremely potent greenhouse gas.
Tien (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:42 amArctic ice for this date up 50% over last.
Tu (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:42 am“How many more days do I have before we can go home, Valerie?”
T.A (301cd6) — 12/19/2013 @ 5:43 am