Put in the GW note because I suspected people (as has become common) wouldn't read the article and immediately post and respond assuming it was a global-warming panic article, which it is not.
Kind of odd that Dr. William Gray wasn't quoted at all in the article, as he's basically the Isaac Newton of hurricane climatology; he's suddenly been frozen out by the media. He was the first promoter of the idea that we were entering a long era of heightened hurricane activity;
However, Gray is one of the most vocal OPPONENTS of global warming in climatology, and I've read that at a conference that he suspects his GW stance is freezing him out of funding and publicity.
Key thing to remeber is that Isabel is perfectly NORMAL, and we should expect a lot more (and stronger) hits; it was the LACK of hits and activity from 1970 through about 1996 or so that was the oddity. From 1996 till now, the activity has markedly increased, but without the same increase in hits; likely because of pure luck.
Of course, a return to the normal level of hurricane destruction, with regular powerful hits, will allow the FR loonjob "we get hit as punishment from God" crowd to gain traction among the clueless.
1 posted on
09/21/2003 4:19:38 PM PDT by
John H K
To: John H K
No, the hurricane was Bush's fault.
2 posted on
09/21/2003 4:23:51 PM PDT by
Cold Heat
("It is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other." [Samuel Clemens, on lawyers])
To: John H K
3 posted on
09/21/2003 4:24:21 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
(When the countdown hits zero, something's gonna happen..)
To: John H K
Was Isabel the First of a New Wave of Big, Bad, Atlantic Hurricanes?We see what we look for.
4 posted on
09/21/2003 4:26:41 PM PDT by
yankeedame
("I assure you I was just whistling for a cab.")
To: John H K
Was Isabel the FIRST of a New Wave of Big, Bad, Atlantic Hurricanes? ......Only three Category 5 storms have hit the U.S. over the past 100 years — Andrew, Camille and the Labor Day storm of 1935--and Isabel was not one of them.
Uhhhhhhh.....
To: John H K
6 posted on
09/21/2003 4:39:30 PM PDT by
blam
To: John H K
err...wasn't this only a category 2 when it hit?
Doesn't sound like a catastrophic event .
8 posted on
09/21/2003 4:57:16 PM PDT by
steplock
(www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
To: John H K
Dr. William Gray’s expertise on hurricanes is not what the ‘global-warming’ crowd want to hear. And as Kerry Emanuel, another hurricane expert so succinctly put it – “"We really don't have the foggiest idea why hurricane formation in the Atlantic was inactive in the '70s, '80s and '90s and so active in the '40s, '50s and early '60s.” - that really frosts the global warming cultists and junque scientists who make big bucks from their so called knowledge about these storms. Good science is out there if the media would report it – but hey! it doesn’t sell ink!
9 posted on
09/21/2003 5:19:33 PM PDT by
yoe
(Term Limits - and 2 terms are the limit for all Federal offices!!)
To: John H K
I remember a couple in the '70s that were worse than this. One took the roof off of Bayside HS in VaBch, another tookdown two bridges in Woodbridge,VA.
13 posted on
09/21/2003 6:08:32 PM PDT by
opbuzz
To: John H K
16 posted on
09/21/2003 7:22:09 PM PDT by
syriacus
(Prankin' Al Franken....says he didn't lie to Ashcroft. His letter was only a prank. A Frankenprank?)
To: John H K
More reason to put the power lines in these parts underground.
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