Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by techumseh
It really isn't good enough to use blogs to support your arguments. It's using someone else's opinion to support your opinion. It's clear that the source of a Hurricane's energy is warm surface water. As the oceans warm as a result of the greenhouse effect, the hurricane season begins earlier, lasts longer, and produces more frequent and more powerful hurricanes. Here is a scientific article which cites several studies that indicate this: http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html There are lots more.

While I really hate to support Drake, I would trust this guy's opinion about the causes of Atlantic basin hurricanes over anyone else's.

[techumseh]

That's not who DT used to support his position. It was a blogger called GEA 3 or something like that.

As for William Gray's opinion, you have to respect it, given his credentials. However, he is in the minority when he dismisses human activity as a significant cause of climate change.

[chequita guevara]

Just cuz DT used a bad source didn't mean he was wrong. That's my only point.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

You're right, Techumseh. If only the US had supported Kyoto then none of this would have happened.

What point exactly are you trying to make with all this backhanded sympathy and down-talking?

[Tingkai]

Well, DT's blog does have a link to a government website showing a decline in previous decades, but a potential increase in hurricanes in this decades.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

But, I don't think the numbers alone supports either argument.

[Kuciwalker]

Anyway, couldn't the increase in hurricanes be a sort of spearman-beats-tank effect? Like just a whim of the RNG gods?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Richelieu


Not for rescue: to keep or reestablish order while FEMA or the Coast Guard does their work.

when they said it was too dangerous for FEMA to do boat rescues, did they mean from violence, or from the water hazards? I did see reports of rescue boats being fired at - but again that means you need guys in boats - Coast Guard, police boats, etc. And if all you need are trained men with guns, theres tens of thousands of National Guard headed that way now. I dont think the 3rd infantry division is a better idea than regional NGs. Unless youre trying to make an unrelated political point.

[chequita guevara]

It's not random, it's just the input factors are so comlicated it's impossible for our lazy brains to figure it out. According to William Gray, it's much more closely linked to African rainfall and El Niño than global warming. See the link in one of my previous postings.

[Kuciwalker]

It's not random, it's just the input factors are so comlicated it's impossible for our lazy brains to figure it out.

I know that. That still makes it practically random (though obviously influenced by things we can detect).

[techumseh]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
You're right, Techumseh. If only the US had supported Kyoto then none of this would have happened.

What point exactly are you trying to make with all this backhanded sympathy and down-talking?

Oh, hi Imran! Using your "Canadian" alter-ego to put words in my mouth is a very clever tactic. But no.

[Brundlefly]

The highest-profile lawmaker impacted by the storm: Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. His antebellum home in Pascagoula was leveled by the storm surge.

"Instant karma's gonna get you.." - John Lennon

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Brundlefly
The highest-profile lawmaker impacted by the storm: Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. His antebellum home in Pascagoula was leveled by the storm surge.

"Instant karma's gonna get you.." - John Lennon

So karma killed thousands and displaced millions just to get to Trent Lott?

[Sandman]

I see Dubya is putting in a dismal showing, as usual. He can't even do phoney sympathy without an inane grin spreading over his face.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Sprayber


So karma killed thousands and displaced millions just to get to Trent Lott?

No, it spared millions of lives and spared millions of homes from damage, but it found Trent Lott's home..

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Sandman
I see Dubya is putting in a dismal showing, as usual. He can't even do phoney sympathy without an inane grin spreading over his face.

I wasn't too impressed with his remarks either but what would you want him to do. Cry like a baby for a few hours?

What I want to know is where is Hollywood? Where are the benifits and donations? Should we lie to them and say it happened in a foreign country so that their give a **** is triggered?