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thedood
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Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav - Yahoo! News - by Seth Borenstein (liberal eco-fascist Jewish associated press writer)
what'd I tell ya...I knew yahoo would have this thing ready...although this is a bit earlier than I thought but now that it looks like Gustav is weakening I guess they're doing a little damage control.
| Quote From Source: | Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate.
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The Atlantic is seeing an increase in storms rated among the strongest. In the past four years, Hurricanes Gustav and Katrina, and six other storms have reached Category 4 or higher with sustained winds of at least 131 mph, according to research at Georgia Tech.
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oh and this is my favorite part:
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"We are just seeing a lot more Categories 4 and 5 globally than we have ever seen," said Judith Curry, chairman of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech. "The years 2004, 2005 and 2007 are quite high. We're just seeing more and more."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sci_gustav_warming 
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MountainManMike
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and yet this hurricane weakened over very warm water, lol. |
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OMG these people are idiots. Serious idiots. It shows you they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. They obviously know nothing about hurricanes and they certainly know nothing of the NHC reporting changed made after Andrew.
For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about it is like this....
Andrew was used to justify how surface level winds are calculated. It used to be they could be as little as 65% of flight level. As little as 65% and as much as 90% depending on the storm. Usually you'd get around 80% and that was honestly generous for most storms. Well because of Andrew the NHC as misused this one storm to change the rule to a straight 90% and even with that they are dishonest and giving higher ratings than the 90%. If you read enough NHC discussions you'll know what I'm talking about.
The NHC appears to be run by substandard "scientists" and those reporting on hurricane changes are substandard "reporters".
Bring back Dr. Frank and some honesty and integrity to the NHC. These people now have no shame or respect for the science.
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sunsettommy
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Not only that.It was only a small scale hurricane in the first place.The 74+ winds was in a small circle around the eye.Ripe for quick collapse to a lower level.
Contrast with Katrina.With a large 74+ wind band that extended for hundreds of miles from the eye.The hurricane was so big that it filled more than half the gulf of mexico.
Gustav is smaller in size. |
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I told my daughter's Sunday school class that I thought Gustav wouldn't be as bad as they were saying because the graph that shows solar flares has been essentially flatlined for a long time now.
Yeah, I know they probably didn't know what I was talking about, but it's a start!
I saw where the mayor of NOLA said it would be "the storm of the century", but...it wasn't. Just as I thought.
It'll be interesting to see how these next three go (Hanna, Ike, and Josephine). There was a tiny little uptick on the solar flares chart this morning, but it's back down again now. |
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My ideas, thoughts....
The North /South declinational movement of the moon, and the atmospheric tides driven by it, are the prime movers of the Maridel flows, in the global circulation. Tropical air masses, storms intermeshed in them, and especially hurricanes move with these tides, so that their tracks are determined by the Tidal movements, but at the same time the charge and discharge effects of the outer planets, set the stage on their own agenda for the strengthening and weakening of the total storm force.
With Katrina and Rita the synodic conjunctions with Neptune and Uranus were in phase with the time of approaching land fall, so they under went a period of increased precipitation rates, and as a result were stronger storms.
With the recent landfall of Gustav, this was not the case, the midpoint between the synodic conjunctions this years was on the 31st of August, so there was a shift to charge phase just before Gustav came ashore, resulting in the weakening of his intensity.
Hanna may benefit from lolling around in the charge phase, gaining size and extra moisture to rain out later, and gain strength from, as Uranus shifts past synodic conjunction and on to a discharge phase, (September 13th) which will drive energy into storms that are around then. |
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