High taxes, earthquakes, landslides, and now superstorms. The weather isn't that nice...
Scientists warn that California could be facing a superstorm "sometime" that could cause a lot more damage than an earthquake and flood a major part of the state...yada, yada, yada.
Here's a quote:
The risk is gathering momentum now, scientists say, due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere, which has generally made weather patterns more volatile.
Yep, that pesky global warming is making it more likely that this will happen. But let's look at the facts listed in the article:
The threat of a cataclysmic California storm has been dormant for the past 150 years. Geological Survey director Marcia K. McNutt told the New York Times that a 300-mile stretch of the Central Valley was inundated from 1861-62. The floods were so bad that the state capital had to be moved to San Francisco, and Governor Leland Stanford had to take a rowboat to his own inauguration, the report notes. Even larger storms happened in past centuries, over the dates 212, 440, 603, 1029, 1418, and 1605, according to geological evidence.
Such a superstorm is hypothetical but not improbable, climate researchers warn.
"We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes," Geological Survey scientist Lucy Jones said
So despite the fact that these storms have happened in the past, and they happen "once every 100 or 200 years", and one hasn't occurred in 150 years (meaning if one doesn't occur in 50 years it'll be overdue), AND during that 150 years is when humans have been blamed for causing "global warming", global warming is to blame for this super storm, or at the very least, is making it more likely?
These are some really impressive scientists...
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Troy wrote:I'll bet there is already a green-lit movie by the same name.
SyFy already has fifty movies that in some way relate to a storm tearing ass through the U.S. or world.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Did anyone see that two night event one of the big networks ran last year? I think it was called "Category 6" or something like that. Anyway, I have no idea how I became aware of it, but I saw just enough of it to see that the category 6 hurricane formed over Lake Michigan.
I wonder if the scientists who contributed to this story helped consult on that mini-series?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
