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Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have been following and projecting Sandy's path with all the tools at their disposal: ocean buoys, radar and satellite imagery, and computer modeling. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also gathers information from special reconnaissance aircraft, which fly over hurricanes and can drop instruments into them to measure wind speeds, air pressure, temperature, and altitude. The latest data gathered on Hurricane Sandy point to an unprecedented and mighty tempest, scientists say." A couple of our East Coast offices are closed today and people have been told to work from home. Please share your storm stories, and updates while you still have internet access.
all the tools at their disposal: ocean buoys, radar and satellite imagery, and computer modeling.
All the scientist in the world and all their tools will not help anything if you insist of reaping the planet. The technology is not exactly zilch compared to nature. On the contrary, all the technology made nature fight back. The world has a fever and WE are the microbes causing the disease.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
So that whole 'south Alabama is nothing by morons' thing IS true then?
Weather changes over time, and if you look at more than trumped up data from the past 50 years modeled to support an agenda, you'd see that it's happened before and has been happening for a long time. Long before the industrial revolution, long before coal burning generators, long before nuclear power, long before gas guzzling automobiles, and I could go on and on. The fact is that the air is much cleaner today than it was when the masses of civilization were burning open fires every night for light and warmth, and burning cities to the ground everytime they had a disagreement. Furthermore, I've seen no study that honestly correlates pollution with severe weather. The studies I have seen have once again targeted specific data, ignoring what doesn't support the theory, and making connections which have no scientific basis. What you've got with global warming is not cause and effect, because it ignores pertent data and relies on data that has been fabricated. So that being the case I'd prefer that the president focus on real issues like fixing the economy, cutting government spending (especially on non-issues like global warming), and protecting our nation (that is what the government's original job was after all).