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Tropical Storm Noel is obviously a last minute storm created to try and add a little more zest to an otherwise quiet hurricane season on US coastlines. But don't be fooled:
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Some of us are old enough to remember a time when the mighty hurricane still roamed the high seas in vast herds, wild and free, unspoiled by the destructive force of man's greed. Not so long ago, scientists marveling at the sheer number of hurricanes worried that they might run out of names for them. Now, with yet another mild season drawing to a close and less than 16 storms to show for it, many are left wondering what is responsible for the disappearance of our beloved Hurricanes, not to mention our free $2,000 ATM cards.
Meteorologists predict that global warming will cause weather to become increasingly unpredictable, thus covering their as$es for generations to come. And if it weren't for the ATM cards, I might be able to dismiss Bush's involvement entirely. But with the price of oil skyrocketing and the economy in the crapper, it's just too much of a coincidence for the hurricanes to completely vanish right now when working families need them the most. The Red Cross may have provided food and water, but it was the $2,000 ATM cards FEMA distributed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that helped many such families purchase such vital necessities as booze, drugs and porn.
Indeed, the adult entertainment industry has been the hardest hit by the sudden lack of hurricanes, losing about 11 percent in sales since 2006. That's money Bush has practically stolen right out of the DNC coffers - and Hillary's war chest.
I'd like to encourage my readers to fill the void by going out and buying up as much smut as they can, but the inconvenient truth is that it's impossible to find porn that's printed on recycled paper these days. Trust me, I've tried. The best alternative I can think of is to go ahead and buy a lot of porn anyway, and then place it all in the proper recycling bin afterwards. I understand this might be difficult for those of you who didn't exercise your Right to Choose and now have children running around your house as punishment, so I'd suggest you instead donate the porn to your local elementary school so that it can be used as instructional aids when President Obama's Kiddie Sex Ed program takes effect. If Hillary wins, however, I'm sure she can find someone within her close inner circle who would be more than happy to hold all your porn for safekeeping, at least until our beautiful hurricanes return and once again rain ATM cards down upon the those Bush has deemed fit to starve to death.
So with the 2007 hurricane season coming to an end and very little activity on US coastlines, what happened to all that hype and horror about global warming increasing the number of hurricanes? And better yet, where are all those stories about how New Orleans is a sitting duck and its all Bush's fault? There seemed to be a flood of them immediately after we had an early named storm, although it was subtropical, and not tropical. There all gone now, I wonder where? Come on, we all remember that either Bush directly created Katrina, or better yet, just 5 years of his environmental policies was enough to create Katrina.
Last edited by TXboomerang; 10-30-2007 at 07:36 AM..
The topic is that the hurricane season is coming to a close and suddenly all the political rhetoric that would have surrounded it had there been a lot of hurricanes hitting is somehow silent.
I'm at work and didn't have time to finish my entire first post. It has now been edited for additional content.
Always a good come-back! Don't work too hard, and come back with some excellent follow ups.
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Originally Posted by tnbound2day
The quoted area is a joke.
The topic is that the hurricane season is coming to a close and suddenly all the political rhetoric that would have surrounded it had there been a lot of hurricanes hitting is somehow silent.
I'm at work and didn't have time to finish my entire first post. It has now been edited for additional content.
No cya, I seriously did want to discuss how the heavy media coverage of hurricane season and all the political discussions about climate change and Katrina failures always get shouted, until the hurricane season dissappoints, and then it is all quietly swept under the rug to trip over next year.
So if global warming caused Katrina, did it also cause a quiet season 2 years in a row? This is the first year in a long time that we were only hit by one hurricane of minimal strength.
So if global warming caused Katrina, did it also cause a quiet season 2 years in a row? This is the first year in a long time that we were only hit by one hurricane of minimal strength.
No, it caused our fires out here instead! First we almost lost Lake Tahoe (although, unlike Cleveland a few decades ago, the water never caught fire) and now LA and San Diego.
Thankfully, all of the homes were already for sale out here, or else these disaster fears may have caused a rush of homes to go on the market.
So, your contention is that a slow hurricane season this year debunks the Global Warming theory - and you're expecting proponants of that theory to agree with you?
If so, if next year is an exceptionally bad year for hurricanes will you jump on the Global Warming theory bandwagon?
Don't think so.
Why should you expect them to do the same?
The earth's weather is an extremely complex machine and Atlantic hurricane generation does not work in a vacume - it's impacted by the weather going on everywhere else (and tons of other factors). No trend can be measured by the weather of one or two seasons and folks who use such evidence (either supporting or debunking Global Warming) really don't know what they are talking about. Just as you can't predict the outcome of a single coin toss - but can make pretty good predictions for 100 tosses, so too looking for significance in the weather for a single year is more or less a vain effort. It's the long run that counts, not any one or two seasons.
Ken
Last edited by LordBalfor; 10-30-2007 at 08:35 AM..
Tropical Storm Noel is obviously a last minute storm created to try and add a little more zest to an otherwise quiet hurricane season on US coastlines. But don't be fooled:
So with the 2007 hurricane season coming to an end and very little activity on US coastlines, what happened to all that hype and horror about global warming increasing the number of hurricanes? And better yet, where are all those stories about how New Orleans is a sitting duck and its all Bush's fault? There seemed to be a flood of them immediately after we had an early named storm, although it was subtropical, and not tropical. There all gone now, I wonder where? Come on, we all remember that either Bush directly created Katrina, or better yet, just 5 years of his environmental policies was enough to create Katrina.
I would assume that yearly fluctuations don't prove much of anything. A slow season doesn't "disprove" the theory that global warming will gradually increase hurricane frequency anymore than a heavy season would prove it.
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If so, a deletion is in order!
