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Running out of Hurricane Names
fm6 writes "LiveScience is reporting that the 21 names reserved for tropical storms and hurricanes in Atlantic Basic are almost used up. If there are more than 21 storms, they'll start using the Greek alphabet. The most storms ever recorded was 21 in 1933, before they started giving them official names. The connection between this record-breaking storm year and global warming remains controversial."
with any luck it'll hit the rich and loosen up some of those tax cut dollars into the economy.
And exactly WHY is it always the first reaction of people like yourself to say "punish the rich and their tax cuts" when the more appropriate statement should be "get those jackass Congressmen to stop spending money like it's theirs, knock it off with their bullshit pork projects, and give the money back to us since it's OUR money"?
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
Like hurricane Rove. You automatically know shit will be raining.
I am!
When volcanoes spew more greenhouse gases in a day than mankind has done in 10,000 years... Gimme a break.
When freon is heavier than air... and I am supposed to believe it depletes the ozone layer way up in the sky -without doing anything to tropospheric ozone... Gimme a break
When the changes in the sun are observed and show some corrilation with changes seen on Earth I am supposed to believe it's my fault? gimme a break.
The data isn't wrong, just the people reading it.
'Global Warming' as caused by man is Junk Science.
See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
These is no "dispute" in the meteorological/climatalogical community about global warming. It is a fact, and they aren't arguing about it.
It has been tiresomely documented in the past fifteen years or more that corporate groups, allied to the point of merger with the right wing of the Republican party, have created fake "controversies" about everything from mercury poisoning to global warming by creating and financing fake "scientific" studies by "think tanks" that reference each others' "results" in an enless echo chamber. News organizations, having been hammered by the right into promoting "balance" by presenting "both sides" of every piece of "controversy", put both "sides" on every time something like global warming comes up as a story. The gross ignorance of science and engineering in the journalism, English and history majors that comprise any news organization also adds a filter of ignorance on the whole presentation of "sides" of the "issue". If they don't understand how science is done, the reporters fall for the whole "it's just a guess, a THEORY" line used by every Republican Scientist (love that term) from creationists to the anti-hippy warming-ain't-happening group [brought to you today by EXXON-MOBIL, screwing you today for a brighter tommorrow).
The "side" saying it ain't so is beholden to the oil and auto companies that fund it. Their "science" is sophistry and deflection, their arguments baseless and calculated to appeal to sloth and ignorance.
Climatologists and meteorologists are done studying global warming. It's now a matter of how bad it will be, not whether it is happening or not.