Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/19/2011 2:36:05 PM PST by CedarDave
(CNSNews.com) – Meterologist Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel predicted that the world will see more extremes in weather, a possible side effect of so-called climate change.
During a Newsmaker Luncheon at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Cantore was asked how relevant the issue of climate change is to his “day-to-day duties” and whether it changes “the business of forecasting on a short-term basis.”
“If you look at today’s dollars and you go back to the 1980s, we averaged about $1 billion disaster a year. In the 2000s, we’ve averaged almost five, and in the last two years, we’ve averaged $7.5 billion disasters per year. So, we’ve seem more extremes, and we’re … going to continue to see more extremes,” Cantore said.
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“And being a guy who stands out in the rain all the time, it rains, it’s raining harder out there. And that’s really weird. It’s not scientific, but when I’m out there in it, it just seems to be raining a lot harder. More water vapor means more rainfall,” he said.
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Ok, just had to say it.
Six-minute Q&A by Cantore in video clip at the link. Cantore goes on to say that damage costs for extreme weather events has increased per year since the 1980's. (Doesn't discuss increased costs of replacement, more people/vacation homes in flood prone areas (esp. coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes), or more total area (suburbs, etc.) now exposed to tornadoes.) He first hems and haws when asked about global warming but then goes into sea level rises and increasing extreme weather. Has drunk the Kool-aid, no doubt about it.
Of course the weather channel, owned by NBC which itself is owned by GE, follows the Obama/Al Gore/environmentalist party line that global warming and climate change are real and caused by human CO2 emissions. So his answer "it seems to be raining harder out there" does not contradict global warming theology.
Only time I see weather on fox ,it’s from the “Extreme Weather Center” blah , bull
Global warming PING!
Uh...we are starving for rain (AND snow) this December!!!
It was delicious. Cantore spun himself into a knot and tried to wiggle out of it by the usual contortions of logic that we've all now heard: warming can cause cooling, blah, blah, blah.
I eventually changed the channel, but I should have checked back later to see whether that "skeptical" anchor who challenged Cantore still remained on the network.
I somehow doubt it.
Cantore's an attention whore.
On the front linea now in tx and it’s true... it rained very hard here in the last hour and we lost power. Posting from phone. Send help
[ “If you look at today’s dollars and you go back to the 1980s, we averaged about $1 billion disaster a year. In the 2000s, we’ve averaged almost five, and in the last two years, we’ve averaged $7.5 billion disasters per year. So, we’ve seem more extremes, and we’re … going to continue to see more extremes,” Cantore said. ]
He forgot to add in the inflation and graft that the government agencies add into the cost of each disaster and the amount of money that is added by people not rebuilding and not reporting like people used to in the old days. Also the insurance fraud.
What a frickin looney toon.
Yep, and we were going to see the worst most frequent hurricanes on record after Katrina too.
That sure panned out. It was over six years ago.
Katrina was a devastating storm in terms of destruction, but by no means the worst storm in terms of strength. If you go back a few decades, there were plenty stronger ones.
If they were stronger, why was Katrina evidence of a new terrible weather pattern. Well, it wasn’t. It was merely a lucky hit at a place and time when infrastructure failed, and emergency services partially melted down.
You’re right. He also forgot to mention that FEMA has escalated what they’re willing to replace today.
We didn’t have government mobile homes rolled out in earlier times. We didn’t have fields full of mobile homes left over years after the event either.
We blow more money, because of mismanagement and idiotic responses that aren’t really reasoned or called for.
Seems to me that Cantore’s explanation doesn’t hold water.
Cantore is an idiot. Increased gov spending is a sign of global warming? So since there was no federal gov spending on disasters 100 years ago, there were no disasters back then? Dufus.
Exactly right. Good point.
Local communities used to fend for themselves for the most part. It’s the rush to the cities that has in some ways destroyed who we are as a people, and maee it more necessary (if you buy into that), that we have a nanny state at all.
You referring to those coming out of Colorado before the start of each season? Apples and oranges, IMO.
In the low of sunspot cycle, atmosphere shrinks, weather gets more extreme.
We are just coming out of biggest low - prolonged dip in the sunspots and that is what is causing some extremes, plus God's finger telling us to stop the PC crap and attacking Christmas and religion!!!!
LOL, this idiot Cantore doesn’t understand inflation.
He can't show his face in the Panhandle of Florida because he has ruined many tourist seasons with his hyperbolic predictions of hurricane doom that never materialized.
Same for man-made global warming. If people fear climatic Armageddon, they will tune in to the Weather Channel to reinforce their delusions.
The key phrase in that spew: “It’s not scientific.”
The rest of it is crap.
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