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The hurricane won't hit my area until Sunday, but the winds have just started to pick up. I can now hear them from inside my house. That only happens with storms.
I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than "climate change." https://t.co/K7d7mopY5Q
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 29, 2017
Pretty obvious unless you want to be obtuse. There are 2 more years left, but likely this will end up being a decade of lower activity.
And for tomorrows lesson, we will go over the peculiarities of 2 + 2...
And it's edge is about on me.
This is pretty close to mainstream right thinking:I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than "climate change." https://t.co/K7d7mopY5Q
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 29, 2017
The climate change fundamentalists turn natural skeptics like myself into extreme doubters. Here's what I know for sure: 1) We as humans need to do a far better job protecting our planet.
2) Government organizations who take on this mandate almost always steal from the taxpayers to help the ruling class.
Acting on climate change is going to cost money.
The hurricane won't hit my area until Sunday, but the winds have just started to pick up. I can now hear them from inside my house. That only happens with storms.
We need a revolutionary technology that can replace gasoline in cars/tractors/planes or we're fucked.
government mandate.
The goal of most climate change researchers seems to be to give the goverment bodies more power to stifle innovation.
Tell me what I'm missing here.
Climate change itself is an extremely complex model. I do not study climate change but I do build models. Anyone who says they KNOW what will happen without explaining the assumptions and range of variability of their predictions is lying to you (or just a bad scientist).
Hurricanes are heat engines. Do you deny this? Global warming has greatly increase the heat in the ocean. Do you deny that? Where do you think hurricanes get their energy from? It's from the ocean.
Acting on climate change is going to cost money. So, taxpayers (really all people) will have to pay. On the other hand, if we do nothing, taxpayers will likely have to pay more when the problems come home to roost.
And for tomorrows lesson, we will go over the peculiarities of 2 + 2...
This is pretty close to mainstream right thinking:I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than "climate change." https://t.co/K7d7mopY5Q
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 29, 2017
Learn from Houston and leave.
Are you seriously sticking around?
We need a revolutionary technology that can replace gasoline in cars/tractors/planes or we're fucked.
There is increasing evidence that hurricanes are getting stronger due to global warming.
The current research into the effects of climate change on tropical storms demonstrates not only the virtues and transparency of the scientific method at work, but rebuts the frequent suggestion that scientists fit their findings to a pre-determined agenda in support of climate change. In the case of storm frequency, there is no consensus and reputable scientists have two diametrically opposed theories about increasing frequencies of such events.
What do the records show? According to the Pew Centre, “Globally, there is an average of about 90 tropical storms a year”. The IPCC AR4 report (2007) says regarding global tropical storms: "There is no clear trend in the annual numbers [i.e. frequency] of tropical cyclones."
But this graph, also from the Pew Centre, shows a 40% increase in North Atlantic tropical storms over the historic maximum of the mid-1950, which at the time was considered extreme:
But while the numbers are not contested, their significance most certainly is. Another study considered how this information was being collected, and research suggested that the increase in reported storms was due to improved monitoring rather than more storms actually taking place.
And to cap it off, two recent peer-reviewed studies completely contradict each other. One paper predicts considerably more storms due to global warming. Another paper suggests the exact opposite – that there will be fewer storms in the future.
But we do know there is extra energy in the system now, so could it have any other effects on tropical storms? Here, the science is far less equivocal, and there is a broad consensus that storms are increasing in strength, or severity. This attribute, called the Power Dissipation Index, measures the duration and intensity (wind speed) of storms, and research has found that since the mid-1970s, there has been an increase in the energy of storms.
Recent research has shown that we are experiencing more storms with higher wind speeds, and these storms will be more destructive, last longer and make landfall more frequently than in the past. Because this phenomenon is strongly associated with sea surface temperatures, it is reasonable to suggest a strong probability that the increase in storm intensity and climate change are linked.
TwoScoops - Along with the worst parts after the hurricane you mentioned above wait until those affected and not affected in Florida and probably every other state get hit with rate increases to keep the insurance companies "profitable" at the levels they are accustomed to.
CO2 to pay their fair share?what do you propose is a fair share?
Hurricanes are heat engines. Do you deny this? Global warming has greatly increase the heat in the ocean. Do you deny that? Where do you think hurricanes get their energy from? It's from the ocean.
So, you're saying currently there is no warm ocean water in Asia and the Pacific and that's the reason there are no storms there now?
Trump hired Perry for the DOE for fuck's sake. Perry wanted to eliminate the DOE a few years ago. He had no idea what it did, but knew it funded research that could help put his oil buddies out of business one day.
Dan8267 saysHurricanes are heat engines. Do you deny this? Global warming has greatly increase the heat in the ocean. Do you deny that? Where do you think hurricanes get their energy from? It's from the ocean.
So, you're saying currently there is no warm ocean water in Asia and the Pacific and that's the reason there are no storms there now?
BlueSardine saysDan8267 saysAnd for tomorrows lesson, we will go over the peculiarities of 2 + 2...
BlueSardine saysAnd for tomorrows lesson, we will go over the peculiarities of 2 + 2...
@Patrick, this is exactly why you need to bring back ban, or at least perma-ban Shrek and all his alts. He adds nothing to a conversation and only seeks to derail each thread. What possible value is there in tolerating this troll?
this is exactly why you need to bring back ban
Sorry Dan, I don't believe this, just like I don't believe Siberia or the Canadian Shield will get colder.
So there you have it. It's not about the number of storms. That's irrelevant because lots of small storms don't do shit damage anyway. It's about the severity of the storms. That's why we've been getting multiple one-in-500-years storms.
Don't try to avoid answering my questions. Answer them first, then I'll answer your questions because I know you won't answer my questions otherwise.
BlueSardine saysAnd for tomorrows lesson, we will go over the peculiarities of 2 + 2...
@Patrick, this is exactly why you need to bring back ban,
@Dan8267 the current plan is to have non-me moderators for specific topics. The moderator and his deputies can decide who can post in that topic. Want to be a moderator for some topic?
Patrick, looks like new image posts are broken. It looks like a URL redirect problem.
For example,
http: //patrick.net/uploads/2017/09/2217%3Ci%3Ebqbte00iuaaz3xu.png
gets mapped to
http: //patrick.net/postbytitle/content
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