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The forecaster on duty in Galveston back then, Isaac Cline, had tried to issue a warning, Emanuel said.

“His hands were tied rather badly by the Washington bureaucracy,” Emanuel said. “The U.S. Weather Bureau had forbidden Cline from issuing his own hurricane warning, it had to go through Washington first.

“He understood a hurricane was coming, but his hands were tied.”

At the time, Cubans had become expert hurricane forecasters and had established “the very first hurricane observation network.” But just three weeks before the deadly storm, the federal government sent out an edict that meteorological information from Cuba to the U.S. was forbidden.

“That one was a confluence of a lot of silly politics,” he said.

After the flood, which claimed his wife and their unborn baby, Cline “was instrumental in agitating for a more advanced network of observations,” Emanuel said.

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Hurricane Irene received a massive amount media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming played in the storm. We speak with someone with his eye on climate change and its impact. “We’ve had not only this extraordinary flooding, but on the same day that Hurricane Irene was coming down, Houston set its all-time temperature record, 109 degrees,” says Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org. “We’re in a new situation.”

http://www.democracynow.org/

There are 1200 USHCN stations (Houston is not one of them.) The temperature record is 120 years long. We would expect that on average, ten stations would break their all time high record this year      1200/120 = 10 .

Superstition is not an excuse for dimwitted alarmism.

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Elusive subatomic particle may not exist after all

Scientists chasing a particle they believe may have played a vital role in creation of the universe indicated last week that they were coming to accept that it might not exist after all.

But they stressed that if the so-called Higgs boson turns out to have been a mirage, the way would be open for advances into territory dubbed “new physics” to try to answer one of the great mysteries of the cosmos.

http://www.washingtonpost.com

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h/t to latitude

This makes about 15,000 ice-free summers in a row which the bears have survived.

Within a short time the hustle and bustle of polar bear season will be upon us…

http://churchillpolarbears.org/blog/

New York City is clanking back to life as its train, buses and airports slowly return to service, and communities from North Carolina to Vermont are toting up the damage, which is believed to be in the billions of dollars, making it the tenth billion dollar storm of 2011.

http://abcnews.go.com/

To put this in perspective, the US Government increases the national debt by a billion dollars every six hours. Hurricane Barry is vastly more expensive than $1 billion in total tropical storm costs over the last 35 months.

Another stillborn gust of wind, during a record gust naming season.