But, of course...
Posted on 08/16/2007 3:51:49 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
It has been less than a day since Tropical Storm Dean has developed into a hurricane and already global warming is being mentioned in a news story about this weather development. Credit for the first known citing of global warming in a Hurricane Dean story goes to The Daily Green. Correspondent Chris Mooney starts out by giving his story, Nothing But Land to Stop Hurricane Dean … or Supertyphoon Sepat, an authentic all caps touch with this weather advisory from the National Hurricane Center:
BASED ON WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW ABOUT INTENSITY CHANGE … THERE DO NOT SEEM TO BE TOO MANY INHIBITING FACTORS TO A FUTURE INTENSIFICATION OF DEAN. GLOBAL MODELS UNANIMOUSLY DEVELOP A LARGE UPPER-LEVEL ANTICYCLONE NEAR THE CENTER OF THE HURRICANE AS THE SYSTEM TRAVELS INTO THE CARIBBEAN SEA. IN COMBINATION WITH VERY DEEP WARM WATERS … THIS PATTERN WOULD FAVOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POWERFUL HURRICANE.
From this promising beginning, Mooney quickly descends into the global warming blame game:
Very few hurricanes achieve their maximum potential intensity, but some do. For this reason, maximum potential intensity theory is a leading reason for believing that global warming should cause the average hurricane to strengthen. Climate change is expected to increase the maximum potential intensity, period. And if it does so, then those storms that achieve their maximum potential will be achieving a higher one than before. By these lights, as global warming sets in we ought to see hurricane intensity records breaking across the globe...
Growing up in South Florida, I used to enjoy tracking hurricanes on maps provided for that purpose by the Miami Herald. However, my interest has changed in recent years. I now prefer to track how many reporters cite global warming whenever new hurricanes develop. So far, Chris Mooney is the first reporter tracked citing global warming in a news story about Hurricane Dean. However, I have every confidence many more reporters will follow in Mooney's footsteps as Hurricane Dean continues to develop. Global warming hurricane reporter tracking maps will be provided exclusively here on NewsBusters.
You people DON’T GET IT.
BUSH’S FAULT !
I wondered when the global warming nuts would come out about this. Whenever there’s a disturbance in the weather it’s somehow attributed to global warming. Whatever happened to basing your opinions on SCIENCE, not politics? Oh wait, if the Dems looked at anything objectively the lies behind their propaganda would be exposed. I forgot...
It was 106 ( approx 40.9 c ) in Saitama Prefecture in Japan yesterday ...a new record ...broke the old record ( 40.8 ) set SEVENTY years ago ...Was there global warming in 1937 ?
You would think that global warming would produce some wind shear to knock these storms apart.
And of course anyone who would dare disgaree with his assertion is a just stupid lunatic who is owned by Big Oil.
And even non-weather events such as tsunamis, spreading of diseases, mental illness, whatever. Global Warming is the root of all evil these days.
I hope the warm-mongers and hotheads keep blaming everything too. The more they do, the more they water it down, and the less people listen.
Yes. Then there was global cooling. Then global warming. Now it seems like global cooling, but no doubt there will be global warming again and then . . .
The DUmmies base their arguments on neither science nor politics but rather their own perverse pagan Earth-worshipping religion.
But, of course...
Hurricane Dean is a stalkin’
Earthquakes are a rockin’
Volcanoes are a poppin’
Vick is a coppin
Padilla ain’t gonna be walkin’
and its all Bush’s fault
Cause al Gore is a talkin’
This just out, warm temperatures experienced during the summer months have been conclusively tied to globull warming
Dean? They named a hurricane Dean? Eeeeeyahhhhh!
Sorry, got to post this again.
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