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Obama administration formally declares danger of carbon emissions

Uh...global warming predicts that weather will become more intense. Meaning, winters will be colder and summers will be hotter on average. It is not the notion that temperatures will meld into some medium.

The Wirmers said that hurricanes were going to become more instense and more frequent, too. How long has it been since we've had a hard hurricane season?

I remember all the, "the sky is falling", BS we heard after Katrina. We haven't had a real storm hit the US since.
 
Massive heat wave hits Australia - Americans do not care as it is not happening in THEIR country so it doesn't count!

Isn't Australia the hottest driest place on Earth, on the average? Heat waves are purdy much normal there...lol

I love how Global Warming means something different every year.
 
Massive heat wave hits Australia - Americans do not care as it is not happening in THEIR country so it doesn't count!

Winter in Northern Hemisphere = Summer in Southern Hemisphere. That's why we don't care.

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The Wirmers said that hurricanes were going to become more instense and more frequent, too. How long has it been since we've had a hard hurricane season?

I remember all the, "the sky is falling", BS we heard after Katrina. We haven't had a real storm hit the US since.

A good sized one hit Mexico in September, but that doesn't count. It didn't hit the US, and the US is the world, so that disproves global warming.
 
A good sized one hit Mexico in September, but that doesn't count. It didn't hit the US, and the US is the world, so that disproves global warming.

Which one are you referring to? Hurricane Jimena? Was it a Pacific or Atlantic one?

EDIT: If that was the one you were referring to, it was almost as powerful as Katrina while at sea, but made landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane and soon became a tropical storm afterwords.
 
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Which one are you referring to? Hurricane Jimena? Was it a Pacific or Atlantic one?

EDIT: If that was the one you were referring to, it was almost as powerful as Katrina while at sea, but made landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane and soon became a tropical storm afterwords.

I don't remember the name, but I remember it hit Los Cabos a week before we arrived there. It did lose power before hitting land, but it started out as a powerful storm.

The destructiveness and hence the notoriety of hurricanes is more dependent on where they hit land than on how powerful they actually are. One that peters out before hitting land, or hits an unpopulated area tends to go unnoticed.

One that hits a low lying city like New Orleans tends to make headlines.
 
I don't remember the name, but I remember it hit Los Cabos a week before we arrived there. It did lose power before hitting land, but it started out as a powerful storm.

The destructiveness and hence the notoriety of hurricanes is more dependent on where they hit land than on how powerful they actually are. One that peters out before hitting land, or hits an unpopulated area tends to go unnoticed.

One that hits a low lying city like New Orleans tends to make headlines.

The only one I can find is that one, but I'll keep looking, and at its most powerful had winds about 30kph slower than Katrina's, however that was when it was Cat 4, again it hit land as a Cat 1...so I don't think its power had to do with why it wasn't getting much attention. It seemed to lose steam relatively far off the coast too...
 
A good sized one hit Mexico in September, but that doesn't count. It didn't hit the US, and the US is the world, so that disproves global warming.

Ok, that's one. Any others?

I said, "the US", because 90% of all hurricanes have hit the United States. Since none have hit the US and only hit Mexico, that means that there has been a 90%+ decrease in hurricane activity since 2005.

That decrease disproves the global warming skeer mongering.
 
I don't remember the name, but I remember it hit Los Cabos a week before we arrived there. It did lose power before hitting land, but it started out as a powerful storm.

The destructiveness and hence the notoriety of hurricanes is more dependent on where they hit land than on how powerful they actually are. One that peters out before hitting land, or hits an unpopulated area tends to go unnoticed.

One that hits a low lying city like New Orleans tends to make headlines.

Katrina made headlines because of all the black folks that had to be evaced. You don't hear anything about hurricane Rita, or Ike, or Gustav.

Ike was the third most powerful storm to ever hit the United States. He ripped galveston a new asshole, destroyed Cameron, again and hardly a word about it. The racial politics factor was missing, I reckon.
 
Ok, that's one. Any others?

I said, "the US", because 90% of all hurricanes have hit the United States. Since none have hit the US and only hit Mexico, that means that there has been a 90%+ decrease in hurricane activity since 2005.

That decrease disproves the global warming skeer mongering.

Except nature doesn't recognize countries...Still though, removing country lines and looking from a geographical perspective still shows that Hurricanes aren't getting progressively worse. It's, and you may want to sit down for this, going in cycles! OH GOD! There's that word again!


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Except nature doesn't recognize countries...Still though, removing country lines and looking from a geographical perspective still shows that Hurricanes aren't getting progressively worse. It's, and you may want to sit down for this, going in cycles! OH GOD! There's that word again!


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Stunning, huh?!? :rofl
 
i'm so pro nuclear i'd let them build one in my backyard. it would be sweet.

I would let them build one in your back yard as well, as long as I live 20 miles away. The monthly siren tests are noisy......and then there is the traffic at shift change....:2razz:
Beats the noise and mess from a coal plant though, trains coming with coal, leaving with ash, almost constantly....and nasty stack emissions around the clock...
 
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