Posted on 02/23/2007 4:19:11 PM PST by blam
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Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Remember when the environmentalists said Alaska's shoreline would be ruined when the Exxon-Valez spilled oil? The fish and wildlife thrived after the accident.
Yah, sure.
Generally, winds on the Oregon Coast are southerly in the winter swinging northwesterly after the passage of a low pressure system. In the summer, the winds are generally northwesterly due to the presence of the Pacific High. In fact, this "rule of thumb" prevails along the entire Pacific Coast of the US. In the article, Mr. Barth has the general wind pattern completely backwards. In fact, by mid May, the general wind direction is northwesterly. Strange conclusions indeed. A NOAA Weather Fax for the next 24 hours shows NW winds shifting to strong southerly winds. Go figure.
Yup...and, the Caribou heards thrived. The pregnant Caribou began to have their babies under the warm (elevated) oil pipelines and more Caribou babies survived as a consequence.
Without long term trend data these assertions are totally useless. On the east coast we have red tide which creates problems for the clam flats. These evidently have been known for eons. I would check this story out with some long time fishermen in the area - especially those who are not likely to look for a Government bail out.
I'd look at the hot underwater vents just off the coast...may be the exit flows have increased, became more toxic, hotter?
I am sure these scientists have exhausted all possible alternative causes, especially the more obvious ones, before resorting to Global Warming. /s
The more this continues the more it feels like we are returning to a society as rendered in Gibson's Apocalypto where the "scientists" (the could predict eclipses) acted as priests and used their slightly greater knowledge to control the superstitious and ignorant locals. We are seeing science being attacked by a homocentric myth akin to pre-Kepler astronomy. Fortunately it will take only a few additional solar based empirical findings to blow this nonsense out of the water. Perhaps this time we can maintain the focus on the damage done by the hysteria - most of Africa is still plagues by the banning of DDT courtesy of Rachel Carson and the failure to adequately use the scientific tools we have to control diseases.
Analyses of recent wind patterns suggest that year-to-year variability in the winds off Oregon is getting stronger, says Barth. The wind changes that the scientists have noted are consistent with what's expected in response to climate change, but the specific cause of the change in wind patterns is unknown, Lubchenco says.
Now that's hard science!
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When they atart naming scientists and experts I might start believing these articles, until then sounds like spin.
By the way my fav other is unnamed sources buzz word for made up/untrue or facts not in evidence.
"Such zones were first appeared discovered in 2002, it's not known if they occurred naturally before then"
No... the zones were first discovered in 2002. Whether they have appeared periodically over the last 4 billion years is an open question
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