Meteorologists react to the raving lunatic's idea of nuking hurricanes

[malaise]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/futile-and-obviously-dangerous-meteorologists-react-to-trump-suggesting-nukes-to-stop-hurricanes/ar-AAGkKnn?ocid=spartanntp
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"Over my 35 years as a meteorologist I have received calls & handwritten letters from people proposing this. I gently try to explain to them that according to @NASA a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs during its life cycle. Futile and obviously dangerous," John Morales, a chief meteorologist at NBC 6 in Miami, tweeted.


Ryan Maue, another meteorologist, agreed about the idea's ineffectiveness.

"Detonating a nuclear bomb inside a hurricane would do nothing to disrupt the storm," he said. "Instead, you now have a radioactive hurricane."

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more at link - the stable genius is really a fucking lunatic

[Vinca]

1. This must have come from one of the conspiracy web sites he seems to visit.

It's so totally nuts. Any imbecile would figure out that would create a radioactive nightmare.

[malaise]

4. The history is interesting

The idea is not a new one and dates back to at least the Eisenhower administration. From time-to-time the hypothetical plan resurfaces, which even led to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishing an easily understood fact sheet as to why it wouldn't work.

https://www.complex.com/life/2019/08/donald-trump-reportedly-asked-about-nuking-hurricanes



The NOAA fact sheet

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

[Historic NY]

2. I hope he didn't see the stuff about "Project Cirrus"

I discovered photos of the bombers they outfitted to seed the clouds.

[mopinko]

33. my brother did this in viet nam.

he was attached to the weather service and they would make it rain on the ho chi min trail.

[brush]

3. Bakari Sellars on CNN this morning pointed out that this has already been done..."SHARKNADO."

That's how stupid the idea and it's proponent is.

[superpatriotman]

5. And here I was afraid of Sharkndos!

Now he wants radioactive Sharknados

[malaise]

6. A sane person would do some research before

asking such a dumb question but not the ignorant and proud effin' lunatic.

[SayItLoud]

11. Pattern shows the Fn MORON REALLY wants to detonate a nuke!

Only one other potus has done so in aggression. He wants to be "special".
He is "special" but not for anything good, smart, positive or moral.

[malaise]

12. +1,000

It's to show power

[lark]

20. It's also, and probably more important to him, personal profit.

He's a partner with a South Korean man who develops nuclear plants, so using nukes could bring him more profit. He'd be sure to order replacement nukes from himself.

[malaise]

23. Oh My!

I did not know that - damn he's like a virus - everywhere

[Bengus81]

15. Trump's on Twitter stating he said or asked anything about nuking a hurricane

[Renew Deal]

7. Radioactive Hurricanes?

Cool!

[malaise]

8. What could go wrong?

[Lulu KC]

9. Once again, he outdoes himself

Every morning, there he is. Even worse than the day before.
I miss the days when he was funny before he was elected.

[SayItLoud]

10. Waiting for the :

"it was sarcasm" from the Oral Office.

Prepare for:

Nuking Iran: "Ah, it was only a sarcastic nuclear attack"

New communications director has a really REALLY dodgy background.

[Va Lefty]

13. Might spawn "Sharknados"

[Ilsa]

26. Not just any sharknados.

Radioactive sharknados!

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Nuke a hurricane...sounds like the little man in Russia

Has been giving Traitor Trump ideas. I mean Putin already has had 2 nuclear accidents maybe he wants the rest of the world to be radioactive like them.

[malaise]

16. Except that this is from 2017 n/t

[duforsure]

17. He puts out outlandish stuff like this

For a reason.It lessens the impact of his bad publicity , and the truth, he's an corrupt criminal who can't stop lying.

[Tracer]

22. No. He just flings out whatever stupid idea pops into his brain at the moment.

That's not to say that he doesn't enjoy the ensuing press stories. And yes, the bad publicity gets buried.

[Video Drone]

18. What a Kook! Or Krook. Kyrook? Well, something like that!

[malaise]

31. He is KRRRRaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Maximum radiation dispersal

minimal impact on hurricane.

This is a recipe for thyroid cancer wave

Is the object to kill people, and make them suffer?

[exboyfil]

29. Yes

Especially if the hurricane is headed towards Puerto Rico. Maybe less so Florida.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. BTW

why doesn't Trump just order US companies to break up hurricanes before they form? He could penalize those who don't, and reward the winners with tariff exemptions. For all his briliance, Trump is not very consistent on his policy proposals.

[The Liberal Lion]

24. trump is gaslighting the country

he treats the federal government like an episode of the apprentice.

[Martin Eden]

25. Does Putin want radioactive hurricanes hitting the US?

Or is this just little Donnie demonstrating his astounding ignorance yet again?

[zentrum]

27. This is his messianic

......complex.

He loves the media circus and MAGA awe that would result from his ability to part the seas, command the heavens.

He's mainilining "The Chosen One" drug.

It's psychotically grandiose.

[malaise]

30. Yep

So true

[Newest Reality]

28. His followers

I have noticed some of his followers floating the, "it was just a joke" defense again. Oh, yeah, enable him, that's right.

No, it is NOT FUNNY. If it was a joke, a President who walks around thinking like a standup comedian and deprecating serious issues is not fit at all for the job, period. There is a time and a place for humor and we would hope a President would have a good sense for that, but this is beyond the pale and not at all excusable, it is downright deplorable.

[dalton99a]

32. Crazy asshole is an everyday danger to the planet

[bronxiteforever]

34. "You now have a radioactive hurricane".

[Stryst]

35. With all his talk about going back to the moon

Nobody better tell him about project Orion. We'll be paying to build Michael the next week

(Project Orion was a plan to propel spaceships by detonating nukes behind them. Michael was an Orion style ship built to fight the aliens in the novel Footfall)

[mopinko]

36. it stood out to me that he said "they form off the african coast"

he thinks this is fine because it would be africa that would take the brunt.

[malaise]

37. Yep but clearly he never heard of the trade winds

To be kind he's a proud ignorant idiot

[bronxiteforever]

38. +1000

[struggle4progress]

39. Radioactive hurricanes: the GOP's new plan to address global warming!

[PandoraAwakened]

40. "gently try to explain to them..."

Love that quote from the article! Reminds me of how we treat the crazy loons in our families who belong to the Magat cult!