If there was ever a scientific study that screamed out, “I was funded by the taxpayers,” this is it.
A new study has found that clouds “communicate” with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night. The surprising findings, published online in the journal Nature, may have significant implications for our understanding of the Earth’s climate.
So the next time you find yourself laying on your back picking out shapes among the clouds, mull on this one: Are they talking among themselves about you?
“Cloud fields organize in such a way that their components ‘communicate’ with one another and produce regular, periodic rainfall events,” explained Graham Feingold, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and the paper’s lead author.
In other words, Feingold found clear evidence of self-organization in the regular patterns of rainfall and repeating growth of those floating puffs of cotton.
Got that? Clouds are thinking, sentient beings. Next thing you know, the ACLU will claim that clouds’ civil rights are being violated and demand that they be given the vote. Dark storm clouds, of course, will claim demand reparations. Wispy little clouds will demand that they be allowed to marry. And big, puffy cumulus clouds will claim they are victims of sizism.
And liberals will demand another tax increase to pay for it all.
Source: Fox News