Why Europe deserves your respect: They had first word on Hurricane Sandy
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/11/01/why-europe-deserves-your-respect-they-had-first-word-on-hurricane-sandy/
Why Europe deserves your respect: They had first word on Hurricane Sandy
7:00 am November 1, 2012, by jgalloway
If you’re familiar with Republican talking points, then you understand that ‘Europe’ has become political shorthand for ‘socialist, debt-ridden mediocrity.’
We must now make an exception for the art of weather forecasting. How did U.S. meteorologists first learn that Hurricane Sandy would make a deadly beeline for the Jersey shore? Socialist, debt-ridden Europe told them.
Specifically, while U.S. computer models still had Hurricane Sandy dying in the deep Atlantic, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, located in the United Kingdom town of Reading, declared that Sandy was about to give the northeastern United States a devastating right hook.
European superiority is an accepted fact within the forecasting craft. Which is why – nine days ago — Marshall Shepherd pointed to the calculations coming out of Britain and told his students in Athens to keep their eyes open.
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“Four-dimensional data assimilation,” you say? Lies, I say! Lies from the pit of hell! Designed to convince me that I need to rely on the laws of physics and make rational determinations about the condition of the planet!
By the way, I am pretty sure how the right wing uses “socialist” in this context is being made fun of because the right wing pretty much calls everything socialist these days that the term lost its meaning here in the States.