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Glen Beck: "Hurricane is a blessing"

severely etarded said:
^I hope you don't think just because the storm was a one that climate change is bullshit. I laid out a lot of evidence in the other thread you never responded to 8(
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I was alluding to the fact that after Katrina the climate change fanatics all predicted that future hurricanes would be all (well, not all of course, they do get some leeway I guess) like Katrina due to climate change. Well, 6 years later and there hasnt been one like it since. But, we all know that as soon as one does, be it tomorrow or 20 years from now, it will be due to climate change.
 
^There have been cat5's since Katrina. The reason Katrina made such a huge impact was because the levees didn't hold.

Only four times — in the 1960, 1961, 2005 and 2007 hurricane seasons — have multiple Category 5 hurricanes formed. Only in 2005 have more than two Category 5 storms formed, and only in 2007 has more than one made landfall at Category 5 strength.
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Wyld 4 X said:
I was alluding to the fact that after Katrina the climate change fanatics all predicted that future hurricanes would be all (well, not all of course, they do get some leeway I guess) like Katrina due to climate change. Well, 6 years later and there hasnt been one like it since. But, we all know that as soon as one does, be it tomorrow or 20 years from now, it will be due to climate change.
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:?

Source: List of Atlantic Basin Category 5 Hurricanes

Rita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma

^ both much more intense than katrina. Rita would have been damn bad if it hit New Orleans. The only reason Katrina was so extremely devastating is because too many people stayed behind and then the levees failed from the surge.

If you look at that list of hurricanes, about 40% of the stronger hurricanes have been in the last 22 years or so.

But I hope your not so deluded you think 'climate change people' were hoping this would be a big one to prove something. There is no need to hope this one will be a big one, the statistics over the next few years will continue to prove climate change is real (you know aside from the record droughts, flooding, tornadoes, snow events - not to mention all the surface temperature data compiled by the NOAA). Nobody needs/hopes/wants a hurricane to be devastating to prove anything.
 
The truth is, no major hurricanes (cat 3 and up) have hit the U.S. since 2005, a record gap. That doesn't change the fact that in the meantime there have been 16 major hurricanes (two of them cat fives). The relative paucity of landfalling major hurricanes over the last 10-15 years has less to do with the truth or falsity of climate change than it does the unpredictability of the troughs and ridges that ultimately control if and where a storm is going to hit.

Also note that Dr. William Gray, a tropical climatologist who's been harping on the Atlantic being in a cycle of enhanced activity that began in '95 and may continue for a decade or two more, is one of the biggest climate change skeptics out there.
 
^really? bel, are you sure?

cuz i was certain these events were more closely correlated to how often teenagers touch themselves.
 
spaceyourbass said:
The climate is and always will be changing.
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exactly idk wtf that should be obvious. sometimes it's little by little over centuries and sometimes in just a few years. TX is in the worst drought in recorded history, this summer was like arizona. All the vegetation is completely dry and dead. won't be long before the dried up vegetation disintegrates into the soil and blows away in the wind...

NSFW:
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level 4 'exceptional' drought... past 'extreme'... and it's widespread...
 
severely etarded said:
The only reason Katrina was so extremely devastating is because too many people stayed behind and then the levees failed from the surge.
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Bardo5 said:
^There have been cat5's since Katrina. The reason Katrina made such a huge impact was because the levees didn't hold.
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Exactly right. All I'm saying is the insinuation from the media and some scientific sites that Katrina and climate change/global warming are related makes many folks believe it really is true. Just Google "hurricane katrina and climate change" and look at all the hits it gets. I read a few and even though they generally conclude that there is not scientific proof that climate change caused Katrina's wrath, it still gently allows a connection to be made. We know the levees failing intensified the destruction Katrina caused but people will just read climate change and Katrina and make an incorrect assumption.

And had Irene been worse than it has been.....the chatter from the climate change side would have increased. But even the increased warmth in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico cannot accurately predict what/when/how strong a hurricane will be. That is still up to natural occurrences.
 
as much as i despise his brand of whateverthatis, there's a little nice sentiment in this bit
Be prepared and be someone who can help others
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which could be interpreted as something like "we generally only get to see the real community bonding through times of adversity",

which upon second thought seem pretty damned cynical.

okay, then
me in this post said:
there's a little nice sentiment in this bit
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fixxed
 
I don't follow him much but it's pretty obvious that he is a moron. This particular comment that is quoted about not being in control and being of help to others seems pretty sane to me though, in comparison.
 
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