This Guy Wanted To Be The GOP Candidate For President | Real Science
Chris Christie (a man who obviously has a huge amount of self respect) swooned over Obama and probably gave him four more years in the White House.
Obama did heal the planet, but he forgot to take care of New Jersey.
New England has been hit by four major hurricanes since the end of the Civil War, with the most recent one in 1954. From 1938 to 1954, three major hurricanes struck New England.
On September 7 1869, three ships observed hurricane force winds over the western Atlantic Ocean, between the Bahamas and Bermuda. The storm moved northward, impacting several other ships as it paralleled the east coast of the United States; one of them reported a pressure of 956 mbar (28.24 inHg), which indicated the system was an intense hurricane.[2] Late on September 8, it reached a peak intensity of 115 mph (185 km/h) with a pressure of 950 mbar (28.05 inHg). After brushing Long Island, the hurricane weakened slightly and made landfall on southwestern Rhode Island at peak intensity.[6]It was one of four hurricanes, along with the 1938 New England hurricane, the 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane, and Hurricane Carol in 1954, to strike New England as a major hurricane, or Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale.[7]
1869 Atlantic hurricane season – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ed Markey wants the government to stop hurricanes.
Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey is calling on Congress to take action to protect the Northeast and other regions from the effects of climate change, in response to Superstorm Sandy.
Mass. Rep holds climate change meeting after Sandy – News – Boston.com
I hate cold weather, and would love to see Barack Obama sign a law banning winter.
The US fire season has nearly ended, with the fire count being the fourth lowest on record since 1960. The only years with fewer forest fires were the wet years after the eruption of El Chichon.
National Interagency Fire Center
National Interagency Fire Center
In 1939, there were 185,000 fires, compared to 50,000 in 2012.
I live three miles away from the High Park Fire, which the experts said in June would burn until the snows came in October. The fire was out the next week.
An 1898 fire in Colorado was about 100 times larger than the High Park Fire, so the experts pretend that time began in 1970.
Greens tell us that our lives would be better without readily available fossil fuels. Obama’s science advisor said that the US is threatened by too much energy.
Greens shut off the lights in New York and bragged about their ability to survive an hour when they had to rely on their phones for electronic entertainment.
A couple of recent events put this theory to the test. An earthquake in 2011 gave Japan the opportunity to experience the joys of living without an adequate supply of fossil fuels.
New York is currently experiencing a similar opportunity at green joy.
New York City authorities say a motorist was arrested after he tried to cut in line at a gas station in Queens early Thursday and pointed a pistol at another motorist who complained.
Drivers in parts of New York and New Jersey lined up Thursday for hours at gas stations that were struggling to stay supplied. The power outages and flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy have forced many gas stations to close and disrupted the flow of fuel from refineries to those stations that are open.
New Yorker Sean Bailey accused of pulling gun in gas line – CBS News
Pretending that we don’t need fossil fuels is fun for complete morons like Bill McKitten and Barack Obama, but without fossil fuels society would collapse into a Mad Max state in a matter of days.
We can’t say for certain that Andrew Freedman wouldn’t be clueless without his CO2 paranoia, but it almost certainly has made his condition worse. He rants about Sandy without checking his facts.
Scientists cannot yet answer the specific question of whether climate change made Hurricane Sandy more likely to occur, since such studies, known as detection and attribution research, take many months to complete. What is already clear, however, is that climate change very likely made Sandy’s impacts worse than they otherwise would have been.
There are three different ways climate change might have influenced Sandy: through the effects of sea level rise; through abnormally warm sea surface temperatures; and possibly through an unusual weather pattern that some scientists think bore the fingerprint of rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice.
The most damaging aspect of the storm was the massive storm surge that struck the coastline from Massachusetts to Maryland. Global warming-related sea level rise gave the surge a higher launching pad than it would have had a century ago, making it more damaging than it otherwise would have been. This is only going to get worse as sea level rise continues as a result of warming ocean waters and melting polar ice caps and glaciers.
The storm surge at The Battery in Lower Manhattan was the highest ever recorded at that location. It surpassed even the most pessimistic forecasts, with the maximum water level reaching 13.88 feet above the average of the daily lowest low tide of the month, known as Mean Lower Low Water, including a storm surge component of 9.23 feet. That broke the official record of 10.5 feet above Mean Lower Low Water set in 1960 during Hurricane Donna, as well as a record set during a hurricane in 1821.
How Global Warming Made Hurricane Sandy Worse | Climate Central
Manhattan has been steadily subsiding for thousands of years due to post glacial rebound. Tide gauge records show no global warming footprint.
Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY)
The 1821 storm which he casually mentions was nearly identical to Sandy, and actually split Manhattan into two islands – despite the fact that the island was nearly two feet higher in 1821 as it is now. It came from a category four hurricane.
Sandy’s storm surge was largely driven by the fact that it was a full moon high tide, which raised tides almost a foot higher than the date of the 1821 storm.
As far as sea surface temperatures go, there is no indication that global warming had anything to do with it. Sandy hit an anomalously warm spot, but sea surface temperatures over much of the globe are anomalously cold. Freedman is using water temperature off New Jersey as a proxy for the planet, putting him on a par with one-tree Briffa for scientific malfeasance.
Sandy was largely powered by unusually cold inland temperatures. There is absolutely no reason to believe that global warming either caused or exacerbated Sandy’s storm surge.
Freedman has no idea what he is talking about.
Wind farm noise does harm sleep and health, say scientists – Telegraph
Wind farms may drive you insane – but are worth it because they are ugly, unreliable and environmentally destructive.
Swathes of British countryside are being sacrificed
Too much faith – and subsidy – is ploughed into wind power when there are alternatives to butchering Britain.
We know all about life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness, but what of beauty? This week hundreds of marchers have converged on Cardiff from the west Midlands and mid-Wales in a desperate bid to halt what, on any showing, is an aesthetic travesty. By what right?
The protested plan, which has seen the Welsh marches in uproar for six months, is to erect 800 more wind turbines across the Cambrian Mountains and build a 100-mile network of 150ft pylons over the Powys hills, down the upper Severn valley into Shropshire. It will turn the largest wilderness area of Britain outside a national park into hundreds of square miles of power station. There is no market demand for this and the electricity generated will be less than one conventional power station. It is all political. The entire project is financed by the taxpayer in grants and by a compulsory levy on electricity bills.
In 22 days, Antarctic sea icea area will have been above normal for 365 days in a row.
According to logic invented by crack scientist Jeff Masters, the odds against this happening are astronomical at 2^343 power to one. Proof that we are all going to die in an ice age.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008
Global warming skepticism is still alive and well, thanks to an effective campaign of public disinformation — one heavily financed by oil, gas, electric utility and coal interests, and employing tactics pioneered by the tobacco industry.
Global warming: More Americans believe ‘big lie’ | Sun Journal
New Yorkers are practically killing each other to get access to the fossil fuels they used to take for granted, while moron lefties in more fortunate parts of the country continue to suffer psychotic delusions. These geniuses should move to Staten Island, and enjoy the charms of the low carbon lifestyle which they advocate.
Below is my complete list of financial backers.
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People in New York are having to use makeshift weapons to defend themselves. The lesson is, exercise your right to purchase arms – before Obama tries to take your rights away during his lame duck second term.
Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters.
Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected official — who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn’t arrive soon — to call for the city to investigate the utility.
Further exacerbating desperate conditions, it could take at least a month to repair the the bridge that connects the Rockaways to the city subway system, officials said.
“We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,” said Danielle Harris, 34, rummaging through donated supplies as children rode scooters along half-block chunk of the boardwalk that had marooned into the middle of Beach 91st St.“We heard gunshots for three nights in a row,” said Harris, who believed they came from the nearby housing projects.
Carly Ruggieri, 27, who lives in water-damaged house on the block, said she barricades her door with a bed frame. “There have been people in power department uniforms knocking on doors and asking if they’re okay, but at midnight.”
And another local surfer said he has knives, a machete and a bow and arrow on the ready. Gunshots and slow-rolling cars have become a common fixture of the night since Hurricane Sandy.
Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters – NY Daily News
Campaigning is a big physical and emotional drain. Obama has even had to quit playing golf for the last few months, because he had to pretend that cared about other people.
If he wins the election, he gets to take many more multi-million dollar golf vacations at taxpayer’s expense.
