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Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes

Posted by michael on from the florida-real-estate-not-such-a-good-investment dept.

DoraLives writes "Think this hurricane season was bad? Well according to the New York Times, a study was published online on Tuesday by The Journal of Climate indicating that warming ocean temperatures are going to make for stronger, wetter hurricanes in the coming years and decades. An abstract of the article concludes cheerfully enough that 'greenhouse gas-induced warming may lead to a gradually increasing risk in the occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms.' Oh joy."

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  1. Whoa by Ninja27 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look out florida...

  2. Thanks Bush! by NeuroManson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe when Jeb has to invest in scuba gear, that would be a good time to finally believe in global warming?

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  3. Great by MemoryDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    The environment seems to solve the Bush problem at least in Florida itself.

  4. Once again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that this, once again, shows the faliure of closed source.

    If we had access to the source code for the weather module, we wouldn't have to wait for god to fix the bug, do some sort of mediocre quality control, and then release it after 6 months.

    1. Re:Once again... by johannesg · · Score: 2, Funny
      I think it is premature to suspect the weather module, it might just as well be the smiting module. If that is true it would be operating according to spec. Anyway, let's just wait and gather some more data first. If mt. Helen blows and wipes out a significant part of the landscape, the Big Earthquake hits and drops California into the ocean, and half a dozen further hurricanes hit Florida, all this year, I'm inclined to think it wasn't weather.cpp...

  5. In other news... by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, the State of Florida has changed its name to State of Emergency.

  6. Actually, florida, texas, and washington by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It seems that disaster seems to follow the bush sons.
    • Neil stole billons in Colorado.
    • Jeb has ran Florida down.
    • GWB ran down Texas and now the USA.
  7. See, there's a problem here. by snarkasaurus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that you're clouding the issue with facts. You just can't let the facts, or God forbid actual reasoning to interfere with a perfectly good anti-USA hate-Bush rant.

    Besides which you read the article. That's cheating.

  8. Re:Nature's way... by Phil246 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah its gods way ( if you believe in such an entity ) of making a point to florida http://bash.org/GODvsBUSH.gif makes it rather clear ;)

  9. APOLOGY by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just thought I would take this opportunity to apologise for the florida hurricanes.

    My attempts to capture the errant butterfly in my backyard failed.

    The little git managed to evade my net on several occasions before fluttering elsewhere.

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  10. Re:Forseen 18 years ago by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "make northern Europe uninhabitable"

    So all I have to do to get the Europeans out of my hair - and off the planet - is let my SUV idle all night?

    I'm waiting for the downside of this...

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