New Orleans and Global Warming

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Going with the God thing, I might tell my evangelical, anti-Catholic ex girlfriend

..................see, see? I've been telling people that people like that still exist around here for years but they wouldn't believe me.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Dis
This has nothing to do with global warming. There were hurricanes long before global warming came about.

global warming = warmer oceans = more hurricanes

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
.................see, see? I've been telling people that people like that still exist around here for years but they wouldn't believe me.

It's pretty much a non-argument when you have many mission trips to South America to convert Catholics. Then they go around and accuse Catholics of not being evangelical enough because they don't send many missions to South America, even though there are large Catholic evangelical efforts in places like Southeast Asia and Africa.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Sava
global warming = warmer oceans = more hurricanes

= stronger hurricanes...

Can't be any simpler really.

[MOBIUS]

Global warming 'has doubled storm threat'

Tropical storms have doubled in destructive potential in the past 30 years because ocean surfaces have become warmer, according to a leading climate researcher...

Funny, I remember mentioning this cause and effect last year when all those hurricanes hit Florida one after the other...

[pchang]

I prefer the term Global Heating. I think it is a better description of what is going on.

[Sava]

heating

warming

eh?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Dis
This has nothing to do with global warming. There were hurricanes long before global warming came about.

Yeah, but there have been 11 named hurricanes so far this season. Usually there are 4 by now.

[Sava]

looks like CNN has caught on...

the poll on their webpage:

Do you believe global warming is a factor behind the recent severe weather?

[MOBIUS]

Global warming may pump up hurricane power

From the New Scientist...

So will New Orleans be the sacrificial cow that finally wakes up the US to the potential destructive effects of global warming by mankind's emissions into the atmosphere?

[lightblue]

Don't think New Orleans will be completely destroyed. And the US government would rather pump a couple of billion into FEMA/aid after the effect than deal with the causes which might hurt the size of the dinners they get bought by the oil companies.

Oil over $70 a barrel, in what basically seems a continuous rising trend over the the last 6 months or so, might start pushing more and more Americans into more fuel efficient vehicles though.

[Drake Tungsten]

Katrina isn't even the strongest hurricane to hit this area.

[pchang]

Global Warming models have been primarily static ones with temperature increases inserted inyto equations at or near equilibria. Global Heating implies a thoroughly dynamic model where it is the heat transfer terms that are allowed to dominate the equations. The math is much more difficult, but I believe science is far superior.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Lancer


Hmm, there ARE alot of Fwench there...

One bright spot is that Fort Polk might be destroyed.

No, it will only make it worse for us poor bastards who have to go there from time to time.

[orange]

New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim