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NOAA forecasters have been about as accurate as 2016 presidential race forecasters.
Weather is very hard to predict. Would you rather them say nothing and let major hurricanes kill thousands of people like it was in the early 20th century?
The fact that the OP used the term "global warming" rather than "climate change", and chose to capitalize the Holy Term, tells me who's doing his thinking for him.
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Originally Posted by Fiyero
Weather is very hard to predict. Would you rather them say nothing and let major hurricanes kill thousands of people like it was in the early 20th century?
The high death tolls associated with hurricanes of sixty years ago or longer probably were more a result of poor weather measurement and tracking devices than of lack of interest or a weather "industry"/bureaucracy. With entire broadcast channels dedicated to weather coverage in modern times, it's not likely such disasters could repeat themselves, save in the Third World, and not in all of that.
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Weather is very hard to predict. Would you rather them say nothing and let major hurricanes kill thousands of people like it was in the early 20th century?
They could just do a blanket statement each year that it will be horrible, but will that actually save lives? No.
Yes, that IS the "bottom line", isn't it?
We will see what happens when it happens.
We had a tornado here a few years ago. The local NWS office relied on local Amateur Radio Operators for information. It (the tornado) was quite a surprise.
That would be amusing if our tax dollars weren't funding it.
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