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Hurricane Sandy
13 years ago
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KoOkY's Fox Den
I survived! Yay!! :D Though I'm still without power which sucks. Been like 5 days now or something. Work finally got power though which is where I'm at now catching up on e-mail and journals and stuff. But just letting people know I'm alive and well. Hehe. No damage to my condo, yard, car, body, Jake, etc. at least so I consider myself lucky given the level of destruction around me. Crazy stuff though. Never seen a storm that bad in my lifetime. :o Thanks sooooooo much to all the friends that let me come over to charge my stuff, chill, watch horrible scary DVDs and all that fun stuff that helped pass the time. :)
Glad you are OK Kooky!
I wonder if they are going to retire Sandy from the list of Hurricanes.
There will, for example, not be another hurricane named Katrina.
Let me make a couple of statements:
1.- There will be an Ice Age, but it was predicted after a global warming. The problem is, the global warming has accelerated and prolonged because of the greenhouse gases the industrial revolution has been producing since the beggining of XX Century and it is suspected to make it more extreme. It is this precisely this acceleration that is causing all this chaos.
Some backup data:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-arti.....ce-age-delayed
2.- Localized temperature in a midterm period osciles between episodes of warm and heat in our planet.
Well explained in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_oscillation
It is the global mean that we have to measure, and there is a clear warming trend:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lo.....arth_warm.html
One, the amount of "greenhouse gases" released by human activities (pollution) is negligible compared to the amount released by volcanic eruptions. We can't do anything about volcanic eruptions, and in fact they are very important because they bring much-needed minerals and other elements, which are essential to life, to the surface.
Two, I don't believe in this global warming stuff anyway. Wether scientific evidence supports global warming or not depends to some degree on what evidence you look at. Don't get me wrong, though, I'm all for caring for the environment!
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
I you read into the section "Volcanic versus anthropogenic CO2 emissions" you'll see that volcanic CO2 emissions in a year are 100 times less than the anthropogenic (generated by the man) CO2 emissions. It is true that given a precise moment a volcanic eruption can generate greater amounts of CO2 and other toxic gases, comparing to certain human activities. Nevertheless, if you see the table in the above-named section, the whole amount of CO2 gases generated in a year by every volcano in the world is comparable to the CO2 emanations of Argentina in the same period. Furthermore, volcanoes are not always in eruption. In fact, except from some exceptions, they are mostly asleep.
- About your second statement : you are partly right, partly wrong. First of all, a scientific issue as the "global warming phenomena" is not a matter of belief. It is a statement based exclusively in empirical verified data.
About the fact that, depending on the set of data you look at, you might be able to reach either a positive or a negative conclusion about the global warming reality, you are true, climate analysis are based upon the construction of physical models based on a determined set of data. If you get the right set of data, you might be able to orientate the analisys in order to get the expected conclusion. That's the reason why some initial studies denied the global warming. Some of them even proved to be financed by raw companies and biased on purpose, as the very same scientifics that made the studies confessed years later. There's been even a contribution from the media to that bias, as this scientific study demonstrates:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc.....59378003000669
In conclusion, there are several studies about global warming and climateic change (it is not the same thing); but scientifically speaking, I think you will agree that those studies which makes more instrospection in the time and generates models in the largest scale are the more reliable ones. In order to find those studies I recommend you to go to the websites of the major weather organizations or even space institutes :
For the #
NASA : http://climate.nasa.gov/
NOAA : http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cmb-faq/gl.....alwarming.html
For Europe :
ESA : http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Space_f.....LZ2VQUD_0.html
EEA : http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate
Hahaha
Miss ya foxy. You gotta come over to visit sometime.
Well, the Lehigh valley got hit... Not as hard as places down in NJ. Tree behind my house split in half. Another half a block away came out almost completely. Lost power for only a very short time. Less than an hour I think. Had no Internet for about a day.
Phones and roads an things closed down. People still without power here in some areas.
My folks lost power for 4-5 days. I drive down to save em. Brought them to my place and saved all their food so it didn't spoil.
Anyway, it really has been forever man.. you gotta come up to visit sometime. I make delicious pasta with chicken... got your entire diet covered! :D
Glad to hear you're ok....
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Camio does have good film choices and is very enthusiastic about his collection. Speaking as another eclectic filmgoer I like that he pushes the boundaries, it keeps the movie days interesting! Even if it aggravates the heck out of others, hoo hoo!
(But MFM is a great con too and I hope you can make it one of these years.)