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Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Patricia — the strongest hurricane ever recorded — barreled closer and closer Friday to Mexico's Pacific coast, where residents have been told to brace for its 200-mph sustained winds and torrential rains. The early Friday central pressure recording of 880 millibars (the barometric pressure equivalent is 25.98 inches) "is the lowest for any tropical cyclone globally for over 30 years," according to the Met Office, Britain's weather service. One other thing alarming about Patricia is its rapid rise in intensity. It rated as a tropical storm early Thursday, but 24 hours later it had become a Category 5 hurricane. Among other effects, El Niño has contributed to ocean waters off Mexico being 2 to 3 degrees warmer than usual. "That warm water from El Niño probably just pushed this slightly over the edge to be the strongest storm on record," CNN's Myers said.
Scientific community vs nihilist right-wing shills is a pissing contest now?
No, there is no equivalence between sane people and the destructive right-wing extremists who are driving us off a cliff.
> This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.
This is called "a single data point". Hurricanes have been down in recent years.
That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".
How long is the recorded history of similarly accurate storm measurement? How old is the planet? Maybe we're just in a cycle that is a bit longer than the amount of time people have been able to measure hurricanes, or have been able to measure them as accurately.
This.
This is EXACTLY it.
We're like the blind men trying to describe the elephant. Caught in the weeds, trying to figure out how big the forest is.
But we've got PLENTY of people licking their chops, attempting to monetize FUD.
What's horrible is that some of them actually call themselves "Scientists".
No different than the "Scientists" during the Inquisitions. Go with the Flow. Get that Grant. Publish that Paper. Rinse, Repeat.
Man-Made Climate Change is a myth.
Why? How do you know that Anthropogenic Climate Change is a myth? How do you know more about the climate than 97% of the people who study it and 90% of scientists in general, and every national science body in the world? When the evidence is all around us, what makes you prefer to believe that the scientists are lying to us for grant money (which they don't even get to keep)? How can you be so sure that releasing 40 billion tonnes of CO2 per year can have no measurable effect on the atmosphere or the climate?
So, how much are you being paid to post this bullshit?