*headdesk*

[emmagrant01]

Jeff Ranieri, a correspondent on the Today show, just explained wind chill as follows: "Whenever you get wind moving across your body, it pulls away the heat molecules from your skin, making you feel that much colder."

I have no words. :-P Okay, I have three: what the fuck?

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[spinfrog.livejournal.com]

ah, the awesomeness of the education in our country :PP

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's so depressing. :-P

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Heat molecules? What molecules are these? Obviously I missed that in my years of chemistry schooling.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I know the science requirements for a degree in journalism aren't that large, but you'd think people would generally know what molecules are. o_0

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

And Global Warming is what happens when the sun shines on an uncloudy day.

(Why do we wonder why the average American has had a hard time understanding Global Warming?)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I suspect there was a misplaced preposition in the paper handed to him by a producer right before they filmed, or something. Which is possibly even sadder.

But yes on the global warming thing. I'm continually stunned at how little the average person understands about science.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Now be fair, it's nice that they're recycling 14th-century physics. Practically enironmentally friendly!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[karaz.livejournal.com]

At that is usually the difference between a meteorologist and eye candy journalist/weather person. Tell me this person was not a meteorologist?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Sadly, he appears to be well educated (http://www.weatherplus.com/weathernews/5534708/detail.html). As a meteorologist.

[mirroredimage.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, dust can get caught in the sensor and be mistaken for... Soul particles.

Cookies to those that know what I'm talking about!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's right on the tip of my tongue...

*tries to recall*

[therealw.livejournal.com]

Next time someone asks me if I'm cold, I'm totally answering "yes, my heat molecules left me".

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL. Quick, get that coat on! Trap 'em!

Owwie.

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

that's just painful.
but sadly, not surprising. And -- seriously, don't feel bad, it's not just your country. the whole world is full of incredibly THICK people.

Re: Owwie.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that makes me feel any better or not. ;-)

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

well I wonder if it works in reverse too...Hmm like air conditioning is placing lots of cold molecules around you to push out the hot ones (giggles at self)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It must be an epic battle. ;-)

[purelyironic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and body hair protects the body from heat loss, because the heat molecules cling to the hair, so they can't be carried away. Uh-huh.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes! Exactly.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

I wonder if these heat molecules are on the skin like some warm, protective coating of warmth, or if they are part of the skin, and the wind sort of rips them off, stealing them from the skin itself. And if you prevent the wind from touching any exposed skin, can we eliminate the environmental problem of "wind chill" altogether? Sort of like a "wear mittens & save the Earth" campaign? We should get this information to the schools immediately.

Perhaps we should write a letter to the producers of the Today Show and ask for clarification.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Ya know... those heat molecules might be a good alternative energy source. Like for powering your home electronics. ;-)

[ellie-nor.livejournal.com]

o.O

Oh dear.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :-P

[florahart]

*takes a stab at what he meant to say*

Perhaps he meant, the molecules of air that have already been heated by heat energy coming off your body. I mean, that can explain the sentence with one very small added syllable (pulls away the heated molecules (of air) from your skin).

*hopes it really is just a failure of noun-to-adjective conversion*

Heat molecules. I wonder if they are red. That would be very Christmassy, anyway...

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I think there may just be a fundamental misconception under there that mere semantics isn't going to fix. Ya know?

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

wtf? *headdesk*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my reaction, yep. :-P

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I'm officially embarrassed for this dude. *sigh*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yup. :-P

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

WE'VE GOT TO OUTRUN THE TEMPERATURE!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[originalintent.livejournal.com]

So they're *heated* molecules, not *heat* molecules. Eh. How many watchers of the show would know the difference?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was pretty clear from his hand gestures while he talked that he was envisioning actual "molecules of heat" being stripped from one's skin. o_0

The fact that he was explaining this as an "expert" just really, really disturbed me.

[kismetologist.livejournal.com]

hahaha heat molecules.
i need to get me some of those.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

If you keep them in a jar, would they glow? ;-)

[cutecoati.livejournal.com]

Right.

Whereas the cold molecules cling onto you, forming layer after layer UNTIL YOU BREAK DOWN UNDER THEM AND DIE CUZ THEY ARE EBIL!!!

*headdesks some more*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

There's a theory. ;-)

[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Heat molecules.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

And here I thought we had entered the modern age of science.

Oh wait. SCIENCE is fine. It's just the idiots who don't bother to study the basics because they think it's okay to be stupid. Please tell me, WHO was this person? Was he a weatherman? What's his role? I want to bitch-slap him for stupidity.