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zeeshan said on September 24, 2005 01:14:
This is so sad. I read that this is a new era of hurricanes that’s not set to stop. Sooo very sad if that’s even remotely close to the word “true”
TinyBubbles said on September 24, 2005 12:37:
Isn’t America one of the big big problems when it comes to global warming? And it is also America who seems to always be very reluctant in solving the problem. Maybe these hurricanes will change things.
rox-kuryliw said on September 24, 2005 13:05:
we a causing there energy to tripple with pollution fueling whats trapped and cannot escape so the engery turns in to storms .
Santi said on September 24, 2005 21:01:
I think that you should not believe that this is a new “era of hurricanes never to stop”. And you shouldn’t believe blindly the media. For a start, the hurricane season runs only for 6 months a year, in case you didn’t know.
Then, relating these hurricanes to global warming is a loose correlation.
2 month of hurricanes don’t mark any trend in serious science, only in sensasionalistic media headlines. More needs to be known to talk in terms of trends, and while water temperature is a factor in hurricane formation is not the main factor and there are so many others involved.
That climate change is going to lead to increased storminess is far from “likely certain”. It’s well known that it affects the poles more than any other place on earth. Which means that the energy difference between the poles and the tropics that leads the climate movements gets levelled. I’ll explain myself, if you have a big temperature difference, tropical warmth has to travel to polar cold. If the temperature difference is less, the driving force of the climate gets slower and weaker. So leading to less storminess. I can look for the references on that if someone wants to check it, I didn’t make it up myself (though I’m currently working on that field for my research project). It’s by everyone known that the strongest winds and worst weather occurred during the glaciations, because this difference of temperature and energy was huge between the poles and the equator. Ever heard of loess? That’s how it’s explained...
And now, to finish, I’ll share a little secret with you all. 9000 years ago, all proxy data shows that climate was warmer than nowadays and than the worst predictions for 2100... and there was not a mass extinction because of that, was it? And climate cooled down, right? And it was not due to cars exhaustion gases... right?
Warmth is not “bad by itself”, and won’t kill the planet, if anyone interested in nature is afraid of that. If we take it back in time, 70 million years ago, for example, there were dense forests in the poles, and the planet was much more full of live than now!
We should want not to contaminate not for fearing total destruction scenarios or other kind of apocaliptic stuff, but for the sake of living a healthy live ourselves and of living in harmony with nature, since we’re animals.
MiracleMan said on September 24, 2005 23:25:
This disappearance of the Gulf Coast’s natural wetlands—due to development and encroachment—has a lot to do with the severity of these storms’ impact. They act as a natural buffer, cooling sown the storm as it heads inland and slowing it down. Without that buffer, there’s no cooling so the storm comes in stronger, harder, and warmer and wrecks even worse havoc that it wold have done.
coyboyusa said on September 25, 2005 01:06:
this has little next to nothign to do with global warming hurricanes run in cycles, we are at the apex of the cycle
coyboyusa said on September 25, 2005 01:08:
and stop blaming american for the worlds problems every industialized and third world country in the world has donated its fair share rto pollution again thsi is why alot of peope dont come here your naive biased opions, the us refused to sign the kyoto agreement because it basically exepmpted china, the worlds second largest polluter fromt he accord claiming its a underveloped nation and should recieve special staus which is BS
TinyBubbles said on September 26, 2005 12:32:
Fact still remains that America has never really been interested in doing anything about it. It is not my opinion. It is a fact.
harriej said on October 1, 2005 23:36:
That China doesn’t go with the Kyoto Protocol doesn’t mean that the USA can say: allright, now we don’t do it either!
That means the USA is as wrong as China is.
coyboyusa said on October 25, 2005 13:15:
but it was the collective united nations that agreed that china didnt need to belong to the kyoto accord which is crap, china is a super power and you’re gonna give it special treatment, we as a nation had every right not to join the kyoto accord. And the hurrican season is at its peak its not globla warming, global warming woudl take a couple hundred years to have any discernable effect on global climate
wilma ATE tropical storm Alpha last night and now it turned into a noreaster thats dumping tons of rain on my area I HATE rain lol
rox-kuryliw said on September 24, 2005 12:03:
umm i dont know what to say , BUt SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ! including more coperation with US china and india on pollution, I dont care iv looked up ect for years i have a big interest in weather. mother nature is clearing her throat to sing ! It not natural pattern, its a pattern which WE have forced her to take.