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Largest and Most Intense Tropical Cyclone On Record Hits the Philippines
mrspoonsi writes "A monstrous storm has arisen in the Western Pacific. The storm, called 'Supter-Typhoon Haiyan', has become the year's most intense. It bore down on the central Philippines this morning, packing winds up to 195 mph (314 km/h), with gusts up to 235 mph (378 km/h), threatening massive damage and sending over 100,000 people into evacuation centers. (Animation of landfall.) Flood waters went as high as 10 feet. The secretary general of the Philippine National Red Cross said, 'About 90% of the infrastructure and establishments were heavily damaged.'"
Higher ocean temperatures cause stronger storms.
It's important to the oil companies that pay me to ignore science that I tell you -
This is not global warming.
It's a man, or a pig. Or a man-bear-pig.
This off-the-charts definitely not caused by the coal power plants which power your house, and power the Chinese factories that build your crap.
I also can't demonstrate my points in reality, and rely on fiction as the entire basis of my perspectives. Let's have an Atlas Shrugged party together(BYOB, parasites).
Everybody knows wind is cold.
Remember kids, this is weather, not climate, and just natural a oscillation of the normal pattern.
We sure couldn't afford to have this sort of shit every year.
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
This storm is weather. Global warming just makes it more likely that you will get this weather. So no, the storm was not caused by global warming.