Super typhoon Haiyan slams the Philippines

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Whether the media is hawking the more hurricanes/less hurricanes line changes with the season, depending on how intense it was.

[BlackCat]

"global warming" is just a term used to describe a process. Words don't cause hurricanes. The increased amount of energy being stored in the oceans most certainly affected this storm. It's sheer retardation to think otherwise.

Pure BS. Surface temperatures hasn't changed so it really can't be blamed.

[Aeson]

Aeson- Get a good UPS, like from APC. They are designed to take fluctuating voltages.

We'll be building our own most likely. Things like that tend to not be readily available in this area.

We'll get a few big batteries and an inverter. A dynamo to work off of the diesel engines we already have (tractor and turtle). Maybe a new diesel engine if I can find one that's reasonably quiet.

The guy I've been going to to charge our laptops and cell phones has a nice setup like that with a Honda diesel generator.

[Aeson]

I blame global warming for what's happened to this thread ...

[MrFun]

It'd be nice if this discussion turned into stories about how others are reaching out to the people in the Philippines, and organizing disaster relief efforts.

You know .... something positive and uplifting in the aftermath of the tragedy.

[Aeson]

We can do both ... flame bait and heart-warming stories...

Capitalist Sales Aided by Communist Engineering

http://philnews.ph/2013/11/12/antonov-an-255-worlds-largest-aircraft-landed-in-mactan-cebu-airport/

The world’s biggest aircraft, the Antonov An-255 from Ukraine landed at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport early morning on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 to deliver a 140 ton power generator to the Philippines.

The Russian-built Antonov An-225 was made by the former Soviet Union, meant to ferry on its back the USSR’s version of the Space Shuttle in the 1980′s. The world’s largest aircraft is powered by six jet engines and has a total of 32 wheels.

Antonov

Antonov 225 Landed in Mactan Cebu (Photo Credit: Nigel Paul Villarete)

The aircraft which was registered in Ukraine holds the world record for heaviest take off weight of a little over 253 tons, it is larger and heavier than either Airbus A380 or the Boeing 747.

The cargo of the aircraft has a volume of 1,300 cubic meters (6.4 meters wide, 4.4 meters high and 43.3 meters long). According to a report published by the Inquirer, First Gen confirmed that the aircraft has been hired for the delivery, but did not elaborate further on the details.

In a separate report by Demotix.com, the Antonov An-225 landed earlier at the Pleso airport in Zagreb, Croatia and ship a Končar power generator to a power plant in the Philippines.

The report stated that due to thunder strike in the Philippine power plant San Lorenzo, lost one of the two generators that were made by renewed electric company Končar. The company made a new 310 MVA generator but the problem is, it weighs 140 tons and shipping by seas would take another 45 days. The Philippine power plant decided to hire Antonov An-255 for transport of the power generator to the Philippines.

[MrFun]

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The US military contracts that plane out all the time. There's all sorts of stuff out there where that is literally the only plane in the world which can carry it.

[Colonâ„¢]

It'd be nice if this discussion turned into stories about how others are reaching out to the people in the Philippines, and organizing disaster relief efforts.

You know .... something positive and uplifting in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Well, the estimated death toll got revised to ~2k, which is good news.

[Sava]

Pure BS. Surface temperatures hasn't changed so it really can't be blamed.

I hope you are trolling.

At this point, even denialist don't deny warming has happened... because it has. The argument is about whether humans have caused it or not. (hint, we have).

[MikeH]

Global warming didn't cause this hurricane. Chill out.

You are a classic case of "when you have made your conclusion, everything looks like evidence".

Increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events (including Hurricanes and Typhoons) is one of the key predictions of climate change. It's one we are observing to be correct.

[Hauldren Collider]

Increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events (including Hurricanes and Typhoons) is one of the key predictions of climate change. It's one we are observing to be correct.

1. They haven't increased in severity, or in frequency.
2. It's one of many predictions, including the prediction that we would have fewer. At this point, the whole global warming movement has observed every and any variation in weather patterns to be attributable to climate change. It's like a horoscope. Hence my aphorism that when you have already made your conclusion, everything appears to be evidence.

There is no science in global warming anymore. It's politics and activism, bordering on religion.

[MikeH]

Those two statements are both factually incorrect.

[MikeH]

The only reason there is any muddy water in climate change is on the deniers behalf, the scientific consensus is clear.

[Hauldren Collider]

Oh really? (To both of your posts)