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this has been another record-breaking year for heat, drought, forest fires, and now Sandy, the most damaging hurricane to hit the east coast ever recorded so far. do you agree with this article that man-made global warming is at least partly to blame?
...At least 40 U.S. deaths. Economic losses expected to climb as high as $50 billion. Eight million homes without power. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated. More than 15,000 flights grounded. Factories, stores, and hospitals shut. Lower Manhattan dark, silent, and underwater.
...Global warming “particularly affects formation of heat waves, droughts, intense precipitation events, and in the long run most probably also tropical cyclone intensity,” Munich Re said. This July was the hottest month recorded in the U.S. since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. Drought Monitor reported that two-thirds of the continental U.S. suffered drought conditions this summer.
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Of course it has to do with man-made global warming. Pretty much every major science body of every civilized government has already agreed on this (all the more amazing since they can't seem to agree on anything else)!
But good luck having a rational discussion on this subject, anymore than that's possible re: "illegals", "birthers", "abortion", "FEMA", "the U.N.", and most other paranoid and fanatical obsessions of the right...
It is. The earth's core is heating up. Hurricanes will become more anual. Eventually we will come up with very strong seawalls. They will be like a steel-titanum-alloy and another metal not invented yet. Dome houses help also.
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You can't really say that any one disaster was caused by global warming, but it's certainly true that the general uptick in bad weather and changing climate is caused by it, and will continue to get worse. Probably we will see not just change, but accelerated change due to several positive feedback loops (vicious cycles).
The only people who don't believe in global warming are US conservatives. The climate scientists - the climatologists who have spent their adult lives studying this - and ordinary people around the world from other countries know that it is happening.
Regardless of the cause of global warming, if it even exists (I remember the ice age the liberal intellects told us we were entering in the 70s), it is entirely too late to prevent it. Whether it is a cyclical climate pattern change or man-made global warming, we CANNOT change it - STOP with the stupidity. If it's real, and it continues, we need to spend our resources ADAPTING to it, not trying to stop it which is cost prohibitive and entirely stupid.
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Ever notice how the Climate Change Deniers, are usually the same folks who wanna deny rights to blacks, gays, muslims, hispanics, joos, lib-ruls, 'educated elites', 'feminazis', etc.? Funny how there should be a "connection" there....
Ever notice how the Climate Change Deniers, are usually the same folks who wanna deny rights to blacks, gays, muslims, hispanics, joos, lib-ruls, 'educated elites', 'feminazis', etc.? Funny how that works...
ever notice how those that believe all the climate change baloney are the ones that support socialism, communism, and the destruction of our American free-enterprise system? Funny, huh?
I am a bit disappointed, but not surprised that more people did not choose "I don't know."
I really don't think global warming is necessarily behind any large storm. There are many factors. But it appears plenty of Einsteins here are absolutely sure it has no effect on climate. What ignoramuses.
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