"Don't worry! Global warning is nothing ot worry about. Nothing to see hee. Move along. In fact, drive along if you can. We'd love it if you could use some more oil."
There is a recent study published (hell, John may have even been the one to link to it) that suggests that hurricanes run on a cycle. As for global warming, it's been going on since the end of the last ice age, so I wouldn't worry about trying to stop it, it's happening either way. We've only just recently noticed because we've only bothered to keep track for the last 100 years or so.
I did. We're on an upturn in the cycle, but, at the same time, the last few years have been exceptional even for that - and we're 10 years into a 30+ year cycle, already with the worst year on record, and it's supposed to get worse.
That tends to indicate something more than *just* the cycle in play.
Hurricanes are on a cycle, just as most things in nature are. And those cycles are based on the balance of environmental factors which we have spent centuries (but esspecially this last sentury or so) fucking with.
And while you're right, global temperatures have been steadily rising since the ice age, but the drastic upswing in temperature over the last seeral years strongly indicates that this is not just a natural event.
As for global warming, it's been going on since the end of the last ice age, so I wouldn't worry about trying to stop it, it's happening either way. We've only just recently noticed because we've only bothered to keep track for the last 100 years or so.
Not really, temperature goes up and down a lot. If you look at the records for the past 2000 years, unreliable as they mostly are, you can find several mini-Ice Ages and hot spells lasting decades and several degrees off current average temperature. The question is whether or not we're exceeding the regular parameters, triggering a real Ice Age.
The average temperature of the water in the Gulf of Mexico is already very warm(enclosed basin, lots of sunlight, low lattitude etc...). Tropical systems that make it that far west are almost gaurunteed to reach tropical storm, if not hurricane, strength regardless as long as its not December-April.
" . . . in other news, the President is playing canasta with an old coke-heady buddy in Detrait all week. When reached for a comment he said, 'I hate rain, you know? I gotta go now . . . I got a full house or something.'"
Does Jeb have to care how the people vote, given that the voting machines are provably insecure and inauditable and the votes are counted, behind closed doors, by private corporations which publically support the Republican party?
Does Jeb really want to face a public revolution when the vote-fixing gets too blatant, and cost his party this wonderful tool they've got to guarantee victory as long as the public believes it might be close?
He's already in a shit hole there. he'll never get re-elected at this point no matter what they do (barring full scale fabrication of voting results, which makes the point moot anyway).
in fact, since when has this camp ever cared about the opinion of the public? they don't win offices, they take them.
Note regarding Hurricane Saftey: my mom's trip to Playa Del Carmen (sceduled for today) has been officially canceled. At least someone is thinking (about liability, but whatever).
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Date: 2005-10-19 03:22 pm (UTC)...that said, the second image makes me think of Fallout. I think it's the typeface.
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Date: 2005-10-19 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:08 pm (UTC)That tends to indicate something more than *just* the cycle in play.
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:44 pm (UTC)... just as long as it stays south of Norfolk.
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-19 06:01 pm (UTC)And while you're right, global temperatures have been steadily rising since the ice age, but the drastic upswing in temperature over the last seeral years strongly indicates that this is not just a natural event.
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Date: 2005-10-28 01:58 pm (UTC)Not really, temperature goes up and down a lot. If you look at the records for the past 2000 years, unreliable as they mostly are, you can find several mini-Ice Ages and hot spells lasting decades and several degrees off current average temperature. The question is whether or not we're exceeding the regular parameters, triggering a real Ice Age.
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:40 pm (UTC)But what do I know... I'm only a meteorologist.
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Date: 2005-10-19 04:59 pm (UTC)Who is the Governor of Florida's brother?
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:16 pm (UTC)*calls for a redo*
Date: 2005-10-19 05:23 pm (UTC)Re: *calls for a redo*
Date: 2005-10-19 06:03 pm (UTC)Re: *calls for a redo*
Date: 2005-10-19 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: *calls for a redo*
Date: 2005-10-19 06:10 pm (UTC)Re: *calls for a redo*
Date: 2005-10-19 06:11 pm (UTC)On a lighter note...
Date: 2005-10-19 07:16 pm (UTC)I am imagining something like the accounting pirates from the short at the beginning of Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
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Date: 2005-10-19 06:03 pm (UTC)in fact, since when has this camp ever cared about the opinion of the public? they don't win offices, they take them.
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Date: 2005-10-19 07:18 pm (UTC)Something those "God Hates [blank]" people should consider... French Quarter, Mexico, Cuba...
THINK ABOUT IT......
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Date: 2005-10-19 07:22 pm (UTC)It's snow-magic, I tell you!
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