With horrid inevitability
Naomi Wolf apparently doesn’t realize that weather can change from day to day, or hour to hour.
She also appears to have cirrus clouds confused with cumulus clouds. Cirrus are the ones that don’t have crisp edges while cumulus are the ones that do.
Wasn’t she on twitter saying that you never see heavily pregnant women any more? A colleague of mine has just given birth, after being big-bumped and blooming in the office.
Maybe the problem is with her memory, and not the sky?
Her memory and her whole entire brain.
Wolf once again demonstrates that her special skill is knowing shit all about anything. Her second best skill is being able to appear in public without dying of shame.
I don’t know why the gubmint didn’t take her seriously on her link between 5G and Covid.
“When the sun was golden not silvery…”
A) Looking at the sun is very, very bad for yer peepers, Naomi.
B) A silvery sun? She literally *is* on a different planet to everybody else.
Rob @4
ROFL
*nerd mode engaged*
*ahem*
The average max wavelength of our sun is actually in the “green” region of the visible light spectrum, so it’s actually GREEN …
Well, ok it emits intense enough light at different wavelengths that the human eye would perceive it as WHITE …
Ok except our atmosphere tends to scatter shorter-wavelength light (blue end of the spectrum) more than it scatter longer wavelengths (red end), so our eyes aren’t getting quite as much blue light, and the short wavelength (roughly, blue-vs-yellow) opsin in our retina means the sun gets interpreted as YELLOW.
So: my theory (you know you all care at this point ;-)) is that Naomi there read* something about the sun actually being greenish-white even though we perceive it as yellow but would perceive it as white without an atmosphere… and grossly misunderstood what she read*. (*Or heard second- or third- or whatever-hand, who knows these days.)
I was about to continue with her other comments… but honestly the remainder of her comment can be dismissed as a gross lack of observational skills ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*nerd mode disengaged*
(… oh who am I kidding, it’s never really disengaged for me XD)
@ibbica
Trying to outnerd you: actually the maximum of the sun spectrum is at agreen wavelength if you plot intensity vs. wavelength. If you plot intensity vs. requency, the maximum shifts to the infrared.
If you look at the point in a color space plot that corresponds to the black body temperature of the sun, you are exactly at the white point, i.e. the light from the sun stimulates all three color-recepting cells in the eye exactly the same.
The problem is that a maxmum of a spectrum is not really a well-defined.
I’ve blogged about this some time ago (it’s in German, but refrences at the end are in english)
https://scienceblogs.de/hier-wohnen-drachen/2013/06/16/das-marchen-vom-sonnenspektrum-2/?all=1
“That’s it from us for this evening, and now, here’s Naomi Wolf with the weather” is not a phrase we’re likely to hear anytime soon then.
As a great philosopher once said, “The sun ain’t yellow, it’s chicken.”
Propeller driven aircraft leave contrails too, at higher altitudes.
Love all the nerd comments here! This is such a fun thing to teach in my Earth Science classes (when I was teaching) because it is something that surprises the students. Also the fact that the majority of the light spectrum can’t be seen by human eyes at all (though some species do see in other portions, we tend to term the part we see as the ‘visible light’ because we are always centered on humans. Ask a bee to define visible light, and they would position the point on the plot differently).
Sounds like Naomi Wolf needs to go back to Earth Science 101.
I’m getting old therefore chemtrails is a helluva argument.
Yeah, it took me a moment to figure out what she was going on about. Then I went to the original link and realized from the replies that this was dog-whistling the whole ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy theory. Yes, people who live near airports have more contrails in the sky than they used to, because we’re doing a lot more flying than ever. This isn’t some new phenomenon, just an acceleration of a long-standing one.
Of course, there is something to be said about calling for fewer flights–‘clean’ jet fuel is a long, long way off, if it’s ever going to be possible, and so it’s one of the areas where reducing carbon footprints is almost impossible except through less consumption. (Hell, it’d be easier to make carbon-free cruise ships.) But this is just completely inane.
Bonus points: In the replies, there was some whackjob claiming that last summer in Australia–you know, the one that resulted in large swathes of the continent in flames–was actually really mild, and that the media was just lying about it.
Freemage, the summer that caused multiple huge fires – and a smoke plume that smothered NZ – was several summers ago; the recent ones have actually been fairly mild in that while average temperatures were high, there were very few heat waves.