Bush’s Fault.
Before And After Photos Of The Delta
Mr. Casey tactfully refrains from admitting that at least part of the problem is that the Burmese junta refuses to allow relief workers or supplies into the area. Better to blame global warming.
When did Ray Nagin move to Burma??...
Because, you moron, you're dealing with a goverment run by a military junta who couldn't care less about their pathetic subjects. Geez. UN, grow up.
"Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPRs May 6 'Fresh Air' broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by Fresh Air host Terry Gross about the release of his book, 'The Assault on Reason,' in paperback.
'And as were talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,' Gore said. 'And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China and were seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.'"
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
Because they can't get blood out of turnips, and can't get taxes out of mangrove swamps.
As we all knew, it is our fault.
Add to the the incredible fact that the f***** generals refused to pass any warning on to these people even though they had it a week in advance with timely critical updates. The same generals have sat on their hands with their troop in the street to preserve order.
Global Warming my a** Human perfidy and evil more likely. That and one hell of a storm.
Last year the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that warming oceans could contribute to increasingly severe cyclones with stronger winds and heavier rains.
Except that the oceans are COOLER THIS YEAR, Nimrods!
Sounds like Ray Nagin and Ma Blanco.
Nature 453, 84-88 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06921; Received 25 June 2007; Accepted 14 March 2008; Corrected 8 May 2008
Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector
The climate of the North Atlantic region exhibits fluctuations on decadal timescales that have large societal consequences. Prominent examples include hurricane activity in the Atlantic1, and surface-temperature and rainfall variations over North America2, Europe3 and northern Africa4. Although these multidecadal variations are potentially predictable if the current state of the ocean is known (5, 6, 7), the lack of subsurface ocean observations8 that constrain this state has been a limiting factor for realizing the full skill potential of such predictions (9). Here we apply a simple approachthat uses only sea surface temperature (SST) observationsto partly overcome this difficulty and perform retrospective decadal predictions with a climate model. Skill is improved significantly relative to predictions made with incomplete knowledge of the ocean state (10), particularly in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific oceans. Thus these results point towards the possibility of routine decadal climate predictions. Using this method, and by considering both internal natural climate variations and projected future anthropogenic forcing, we make the following forecast:
Over the next decade, the current Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will weaken to its long-term mean; moreover, North Atlantic SST and European and North American surface temperatures will cool slightly, whereas tropical Pacific SST will remain almost unchanged.
Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/abs/nature06921.html
Ah, so they were Nagin'ed to death.
Gore makes the dishonest claim that it was CO2 that warmed the earth to get us out of these past 4 glaciation periods above (roughly every 100,000, the result of periodic changes in Earth's orbit and spin axis), yet one can clearly see that temperature increases (the blue line) actually PRECEEDED CO2 increases (red line) all throughout this 400,000 year time interval that Gore repeatedly refers to as the 'proof'. In fact, temperature increases precede CO2 increases by an of average 800 years! There really isn't any evidence in the geologic record that CO2 has caused significant global warming. Water vapor, by far, is the most important of the greenhouse gas, accounting for around 75-95% of the GH effect -another "inconvenient truth" Gore left out of his sci-fi flick.(BP = before present).
Why would salt water make a flood more dangerous?
http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=66
Estimated Total Population Living within Flood-Affected Areas, Myanmar
International Charter Space and Major Disasters
Product ID: 1177 - 6 May, 2008 - English
GLIDE: TC-2008-000057-MMR
Product FOOTPRINT (LAT x LONG, WSG84 Geographic, decimal degrees)
TopLeft: 18.3 x 94.13
BottomRight: 15.6 x 97.75 This map provides an estimate of those potentially-affected people living directly within flooded areas of southern Myanmar. Red areas shown in the map represent standing flood waters identified from MODIS satellite imagery acquired on 5 May 2008 at a spatial resolution of 250m. Population estimates have been aggregated by township using the LandScan 2005 database. This flood detection is a preliminary analysis & has not yet been validated in the field. Map scale for A3: 1:1,200,000; Projection; UTM Zone 46 North; Datum: WGS 1984
Source(s):
Cyclone Data : NOAA, Un.of Hawaii, Tropical Storm Risk
GIS Data : USGS, NGA, ESRI, Respond/Keyobs
Population Data : LandScan 2005
Satellite Data : MODIS-Aqua & Terra
Imagery Date : 5 May & 15 April 2008
Resolution : 250m
Flood Analysis : UNOSAT (5 May 2008)
Map Production : UNOSAT (6 May 2008)
UNOSAT_Myanmar_Nargis_PopulationEstimate_Overview_Lowres_v1.pdf (1.1MB),
UNOSAT_Myanmar_Nargis_PopulationEstimate_Overview_Highres_v1.pdf (2.7MB)