Hurricanes' Lessons (Junk science alert; advice on science from the Arabs!!!)

Arab News ^ | 25 September 2005 | Arab News

[indcons]

Here is some impeccable science from the most scientific people on earth. Yes, folks...I am talking about the Arabs!!! Never thought I would read advice on science from these 7th-century Neanderthals.

[Crazieman]

Handful?

In 1933 there were 21 storms.

[cripplecreek]

Aren't all desert dwellers hurricane experts?

[indcons]

LOL.....great one, CC.

[WideGlide]

The closest these ragheads will ever get to anything resembling a hurricane is at windy end of a camel.

[satchmodog9]

Written with the syntax of a twelve year old.

[muawiyah]

Actually, the desert rats get in on about 10% of the world's tornados.

We Americans get the other 90%!

A Russian immigrant once pointed out to me that in Russia there is no weather ~ just seasons ~ as Americans would think of weather. He said he'd seen more damaging thunderstorms and hail in 2 years living in Northern Virginia than he'd seen in 40 years of life in Moscow.

He found it invigorating and it'd gotten him into the habit of watching the television weather programs.

Accordingly we should expect just about all the funny little foreign people in the Old World to be a bit naive about a real man's weather. Still, it's ridiculous for even an Arab to state so authoritatively that: "A hundred years ago, there were seldom more than a handful of tropical storms annually. Everybody knows that only those that hit shore were counted, with most such storms staying far at sea ~ just as happens today. Even after the airplane was invented many tropical storms were simply missed. It took satellites to reveal the full extent of what's going on out there.

[The Red Zone]

The White House still rejects the link between carbon dioxide pollution, of which America is the biggest offender, and global warming.

I guess he wants the world to stop buying their oil huh.

[muawiyah]

Somehow I suspect you'd been better off if you'd had a good map book with you.

BTW, when a CAT 5 is lurking around your neighborhood, it's much wiser to run for your life than to hang around waiting for a looter to come in and get your stuff.

Remember, the rule is "life first", "stuff second".

[SouthTexas]

Stay home next time, just don't bother calling for help.

[Emmett McCarthy]

As a general rule, taking advice or instruction from government will set you up for a screwing. Taking home improvement advice from the dolts who sell stuff at Home Depot also ain't a great plan, either. I'm throwing that in for free in case you need to fix up your house after the storm.

[Jess Kitting]

Middle Easterns should be the last ones to be complaining about global warming.

Pollution comes from cars and factories which are powered mainly by petroleum products. And where does much of the world buy its petroleum--from the the Middle East!

[muawiyah]

Hmmmm. A CAT 5 coming in at just the correct angle, and a 35 foot storm surge, and you aren't around to fire up your generator or to use your gun.

You haven't thought about this very much have you?

[sheik yerbouty]

They have much experience in that regard..

[ncountylee]

Australia get a ton of tornados, second to only the US.

[p23185]

>>Never thought I would read advice on science from these 7th-century Neanderthals.<<<

Isn't it amazing indeed - these folks want all people of the planet to be back in the 7th century with them. Sheehag and Demoncrats, greens, liberals all want us to stop living in our modern/scientific times also. Signing of the Kyoto treaty would not even make a dent in the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere anytime soon. Just more "HATE BUSH" propaganda.

[spinestein]

[The White House still rejects the link between carbon dioxide pollution, of which America is the biggest offender, and global warming.]



I just can't stop laughing at the idiocy of this sentence.

And I can think of about 15 punch lines that go with it.