Twitter / mims: @MichaelEMann Truly. Possi
@MichaelEMann Truly. Possibly unrelated, but the impacts continue to surprise. A "derecho"? Who had even heard of that?
Twitter / MichaelEMann: @mims Yeah--when I first h
@mims Yeah--when I first heard the term, I though it was something that goes well w/ salsa verde. Even the scientists are learning something
[Michael Mann] We are seeing and feeling climate change in the more extreme heat we are witnessing this summer, the outbreak of massive forest fires like the one engulfing Colorado over the past week, and more extreme weather events like the Derecho that knocked out power for millions in the eastern US during a record-breaking heat spell.
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I categorically reject the sudden, stealth introduction of the word "derecho" in place of the long-established term "straight-line wind", as if the former should now be taken to be the standard nomenclature, and anyone who expresses surprise is now to be instantly open to ridicule. I also reject the word "tsunami", which was suddenly introduced about 10 years ago, to replace "tidal wave" worldwide. The latter is the more accurate descriptive term (it is a wave that is so long that it comes in as a tide does, higher and higher, for perhaps 15 to 30 minutes, before receding). The term "tsunami" was formerly used only for Asian Pacific tidal waves, as I recall. We are told it means "harbor wave" in Japanese, but that is the ignorance of relatively recent, poorly-educated generations speaking; it obviously comes from the truly ancient Japanese Goddess Itzunami, in her guise as "the destroyer" (a common description for the earliest nature Goddess in many mythologies, representing as she did the unchainable forces of nature that could wreak havoc as nothing else in man's mundane experience). It is wrong to use her name beyond its original bounds (you will only confuse future anthropologists, if her limited, regional origin is ever forgotten). I reject any renaming of anything by the present generation of mankind, for it is too content with its own ignorance of real origins, and hence with its own ignorant dogmas.
"Who knows only his own generation remains always a child." The current generation is one of children, and spoiled, prideful ones at that.
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