Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 6, 2006 @03:28PM from the things-that-go-bump-in-the-night dept.

tpoker writes to tell us NASA is reporting that the two biggest storms in the solar system are about to collide on Jupiter. From the article: "Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years. Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as 'Red Jr.,' a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin."

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Global Warming by ShakaUVM · 2006-06-06 17:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We've never seen as large a storm as this ever before. Clearly the only possible explanation is human involvement!

(Yes, global warming may be real, but the utterly non-scientific way it is presented in the media just sets my teeth on edge. Sportatic outliers will always happen. You can't EVER point at a single heat wave or hurricane and say that it is evidence of global warming. You have to look at trending, and the big picture. And yet on NPR in April they had three different scientists saying that Katrina was definitely caused by global warming.)