Yasi - Be scared, very scared of this storm

[Qilue]

The cause of the extreme weather this summer has been known to meteorologists for months. It's a combination of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and a very strong La Nina cycle with the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

How climate change has affected those two weather cycles is unknown despite the ravings of Facebook scientists.

[MOBIUS]

Yes, I'm amoral and you're a sick freak who gets off on misery. Other people's misery has no effect on me one way or the other. Amoral != immoral.

I've never once implied I get off on other people's misery. All I've said is that if people wilfully disregard their own safety and get killed - don't expect any sympathy from me.

Again, if you're hellbent on losing the argument by putting words into my mouth - it's fine by me.

[MOBIUS]

]known to meteorologists for months.

I rest my case!

[Lorizael]

Nature's revenge for the Aussies (QLDers being the worst offenders) voting down Kevin Rudd's climate change bill...

Then they can reap the rewards of that attitude.

Think of it as Darwinism in action.

I'm a douche. You're okay with wholesale destruction and death if it happens to people you disagree with.

Pretty much, I guess, yes.

The fact that there are less of them and that those that survive might actually stop and think about the ****ed up policies of their country can only be a good thing.

If this isn't fap material, I don't know what is.

[-Jrabbit]

I rest my case!

Yes, please.

Now, how are our Aussie friends doing?

[Donegeal]

If you just ignore him, he goes away.

As for our Aussie friends... no word yet. I read on Yahoo that the storm will last almost 2 days after landfall.

[SlowwHand]

I've never once implied I get off on other people's misery. All I've said is that if people wilfully disregard their own safety and get killed - don't expect any sympathy from me.

Again, if you're hellbent on losing the argument by putting words into my mouth - it's fine by me.

Again showing that you don't know crap about a mass evacuation.

[Dinner]

Think of it as Darwinism in action.

Somehow I have a feeling that those Aborigines still living in traditional ways (those that are still left after the genocide inflicted upon them by the Australians, or forcible resettlement into a western way of life!) are smarter than that.

Traditional ways? You mean when the average life expectancy of your average Aborigines was around 35 years old?

[ricketyclik]

The cause of the extreme weather this summer has been known to meteorologists for months. It's a combination of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and a very strong La Nina cycle with the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

How climate change has affected those two weather cycles is unknown despite the ravings of Facebook scientists.

So the fact that La Nina is basically driven by sea surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific and that the western Pacific tropical sea surface temperatures are at record levels has nothing to do with record-setting rainfall events and cyclones is just a coincidence I guess.

[MOBIUS]

Traditional ways? You mean when the average life expectancy of your average Aborigines was around 35 years old?

That's cos you're lumping in all the ones who've been forcibly 'civilised' and subsequently turned to alcohol and drug abuse.

Imagine the **** that went down with the Native Americans in your own country and then imagine how much worse they could have been treated?

Welcome to Australia!

[MOBIUS]

So the fact that La Nina is basically driven by sea surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific and that the western Pacific tropical sea surface temperatures are at record levels has nothing to do with record-setting rainfall events and cyclones is just a coincidence I guess.

He's an Aussie. Of course it's a coincidence...

[ricketyclik]

Cyclone now inland and downgraded to Category 2. No reports of injury or fatalities (touch wood).

[MOBIUS]

I bet he still flies on aeroplanes though.

Return flights to Madrid booked for later this month. Four nights at the Radisson Blu Prado Hotel - looking forward to it already!

[MOBIUS]

Again showing that you don't know crap about a mass evacuation.

Dude, you're a Texan. You don't know crap - full stop!

[BlackCat]

He's an Aussie. Of course it's a coincidence...

Of course it's not a coincidence

Cyclones in Queensland from 1906 to 2007