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Yubaru
I hope everyone is safe. For as many hurricanes that hit those areas I am amazed many times at the amount of damage that occurs.
We see so many monster storms here and there is a fraction of the damage and rarely anyone dying from the storm, and often times storm surges that double what are being predicted for this hurricane.
Seems to me at least that they could learn something from here.
CrazyJoe
This is the new normal. All of this was predicted by climate scientists and it's just going to get worse. If people think global warming won't affect them, think again. This massive devastation is just a taste of much worse things to come.
Toasted Heretic
And it's ordinary folk who bear the brunt of these storms. If it were the elite in their ivory towers, you might just see some movement on climate change.
smithinjapan
Yubaru: "Seems to me at least that they could learn something from here."
Only the victims learn, the leaders usually don't. Instead some continue intent on denying that any of this is our own doing, and insist on further degredation of the environment. Hell, Rush Limbaugh just the other day said the Hurricane was "liberal propaganda", and of course now has quickly left his usual broadcast center out of fear and is blaming the media for "twisting (his) words", even though he literally said that. He certainly won't learn. And these storms are getting bigger, and stronger. Japan is eventually going to face worse typhoons as well.
albaleo
I can't believe I'm defending Rush Limbaugh, but he didn't "literally" say that. He implied that hurricanes are used as liberal propaganda. Not quite the same.
The article below gives a lot of info about Hurricane Irma. I find Judith Curry a voice of reason amongst the hysteria that global warming tends to whip up. She certainly knows her hurricanes.
https://judithcurry.com/2017/09/08/hurricane-irma-eyes-florida/#more-23347
smithinjapan
albaleo: Here's what he said, in part...
“Here comes a hurricane, local media goes on the air, ‘Big hurricane coming, oh, my God! Make sure you got batteries. Make sure you got water. It could be the worst ever. Have you seen the size of this baby? It’s already a Cat 5. Oh, my God, oh, my God, it’s bigger than the island of Haiti. Oh, my God.’ People run to the stores, they stock up everything, and they hoard. And they end up with vacant stores, nothing there. And it’s a big success. TV stations got eyeballs, the advertising businesses have sold out of business, gotta restock and the cycle repeats.... The views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right 99.8 percent of the time. There is a reason for that because we engage in a relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth and we find and proclaim it and that happens to drive people crazy.”
Morons actually LISTEN to him. If anyone is hurt or killed -- and he has already fled, of course -- he should be charged as a criminal.
albaleo
@smithinjapan
I think Rush Limbaugh is an imbecile. But he didn't literally say that "the Hurricane was liberal propaganda". He also prefaced his comments with, "I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction." Whatever he said, I don't think it's relevant to serious discussions about hurricanes and climate. If some people want to believe him, that's their problem.
katsu78
It becomes the rest of our problem when those dittoheads turn around and vote for Republicans who deny climate science and destroy the environment for the rest of us.
lostrune2
There's hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and there's a couple named Harvey (104) and Irma (93) married for 75 years:
http://people.com/human-interest/real-life-harvey-irma-married-75-years/
Then there's Jose and Katia - bringing to 3 active hurricanes on the Atlantic for the first time since 2010:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJEflJjW4AERvZe.jpg
albaleo
Democracy can be a bummer when other folks don't vote the way you want them to. You could always try and convince them to your way of thinking, but I suggest you skip the "deny climate science" argument. It sounds a bit fanatical. If you have the time and patience, you might pick up some ideas from the video at this link:
https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/full-committee-hearing-climate-science-assumptions-policy-implications-and