More BRUTAL Climate Change Smackdown -- SYDNEY joins Canberra in power outages from monster hail storms
Carbon Criminal Polluters
19,000 premises lose power during freak Sydney storm [photos]
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Two Chinese tourists huddle under an umbrella as a storm hits Sydney
yesterday. Photo / Reuters
Two Chinese tourists huddle under an umbrella as a storm hits Sydney
yesterday. Photo / Reuters
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SYDNEY - One man was injured by lightning, at least 12 cars were
swamped by stormwater and 19,000 homes and businesses were blacked out
as summer thunderstorms dumped heavy rain on Sydney yesterday.
The storm systems moved across Sydney from south to east with more
than 20 millimetres of rain recorded in the city's south-west.
The storm and its associated flash flooding and lightning caused
serious delays for people trying to travel by road, rail and air.
Flights due to depart from Sydney Airport between 2.40pm and 3.45pm
AEDT (12.40pm and 1.45pm NZ time) were delayed, with ground crews
unable to work due to lightning strikes.
Sydney rail commuters were warned to expect delays on the Bankstown,
Inner West and South coast lines with services between Campbelltown
and Macarthur affected this afternoon.
Roads were clogged with traffic, with visibility poor and conditions
dangerous due to the weather.
Integral Energy said 19,000 homes and businesses were blacked out
about 3.30pm AEDT (1.30pm NZ time) and 4400 homes remain without power
tonight.
In Sydney's south-west, a 52-year-old man was hit by lightning at
Narellan Road, Campbelltown at 3.20pm AEDT (1.20pm NZ time), a NSW
Ambulance spokesman said.
The man was taken to Campbelltown Hospital where he is in a stable
condition.
Nearby at Menangle, commuters watched as cars were swamped with water
outside Broughton Anglican College.
A police spokesman said one of the vehicles was washed into a culvert,
causing water to back up and flood Menangle Rd, at Menangle. No one
was injured.
"All reports from local police are that the students from that school
are not in any danger or under threat," a police spokesman said.
The college has cancelled today's classes.
State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Steve Delaney said flash
flooding was recorded at Camden, Liverpool and Parramatta as the storm
crossed the metropolitan area.
He said small hailstones were recorded in the Campbelltown area.
A Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said the storm system stretched from
Sydney to the Victorian border, the central west slopes and central
tablelands.
Canberra was lashed on Tuesday night by a severe hail storm which
closed schools, government departments and a university as road crews
cleared hail drifts up to one metre deep around city streets.
raylopez99
Davee? When I was visiting people talked about golf-ball sized hail
like it was common. It's a land of extremes.
I guess you want to blame the Florida Space Shuttle delay, due to a
hailstorm, on GW as well?
Learn from Roger: weather is not climate.
RL
Gonna Bust Up Exxon's Crime Ring
> Dude, have you been down under? This stuff happens all the time, right
> Davee? When I was visiting people talked about golf-ball sized hail
> like it was common. It's a land of extremes.
>
> I guess you want to blame the Florida Space Shuttle delay, due to a
> hailstorm, on GW as well?
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> Learn from Roger: weather is not climate.
>
> RL
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Learn from me, climate is nothing except the aggregate of weather. If
meter-height (40 inch) drifts of hailstones is "normal" then we have
already died and gone to hell.
Hail storms that strip the leaves off trees in summer can't be that
"normal" or else the threes don't survive from lack of food -- they
eat through their leaves.
The very fact that there are trees shows this isn't normal, not to
mention the headlines calling it "freak storm".
wnc...@adelphia.net
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Gee since when did a few "freak storms" don't constitute GW
wnc...@adelphia.net
<CrookWa...@ScienceCop.info> wrote:
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Sorry about that I meant to say "Since when did a few "freak storms"
constitute GW" look at the real science. Science isn't predictions its
tested facts. We have been comming out of an ice age 20,000 years ago.
When you come out of an ice age things get warmer. The oceans have
been consistantly rising about 4" a century for the last 8,000 years.
Anybody who is trying to make you believe you will have beach from
property in Denver this century is dead wrong.The facts don't support
it. The myth about things drying up really looks different when you
look and see that the Sahara Desert is SHRINKING because it is being
taken over by plant growth. Funny, plants love higher CO2 levels.
Photosynthesis is much more efficient at higher C02 levels than we
have now. So maybe we will be able to actually feed this planet with
the extra production.
Ray Lopez Kiddie-Porn@NAMBLA.org
Since the frequency increased and the intensity was outside the norm.
Got any idea how high a "meter" of hailstone drifts are? Well wait a
little bit and you'll see for yourself.
Ray Lopez Kiddie-Porn@NAMBLA.org
NOTHING IS SCIENCE unless it can do two things:
(1) Explain the underlying forces at work on phenomena, and
(2) PREDICT what is likely to happen based on the explanation.
If the predictions fail the explanations fail and you start over.
> Funny, plants love higher CO2 levels.
> Photosynthesis is much more efficient at higher C02 levels than we
> have now. So maybe we will be able to actually feed this planet with
> the extra production.
Not all plants LOVE CO2. CO2 has none of the big three fertilizer
components and is used only for bulking up with sugars and starches,
sort of "plant fat", which attracts predators who seek out the fat
plants for the cheap energy supply of fast sugars.
Plants get plenty enough CO2 from the air they evolved to breath.
You are just another guy who licks Karl Rove's dick in public. Have
you no shame? Naw, I knew that.
Joe Fischer
<Crook...@ScienceCop.info> wrote:
>Learn from me, climate is nothing except the aggregate of weather. If
>meter-height (40 inch) drifts of hailstones is "normal" then we have
>already died and gone to hell.
Forty inches is very abnormal, but it is also
very local, hail does not fall over a large area, ever.
>Hail storms that strip the leaves off trees in summer can't be that
>"normal" or else the threes don't survive from lack of food -- they
>eat through their leaves.
And roots. The fact that hail is very local means
it is not a major threat to trees.
>The very fact that there are trees shows this isn't normal, not to
>mention the headlines calling it "freak storm".
Forty inches of hail, even if only against objects
or buildings is a "freak storm", but freak storms occur
all the time, just like two headed snakes and calves.
I think usually hail occurs when conditions
are favorable for tornados, it is rain that was carried
up high by warm moist air, possibly multiple times,
and hail brings the "cold" from high up down to
the ground.
And it is as much moisture that is involved
in causing hail as it is heat, the precipitation of water
vapor is where the heat comes from that drives
the rain drops up high enough to freeze.
The things in the report are scary to some,
but the report does not consider the reductions in
emissions resulting from mandates or agreements,
so maybe things won't be as bad as predicted.
Also, several predictions refer to a millennia,
which is what, a thousand years?
It is a safe bet that there won't be much oil
in a thousand years, and hopefully there will be
fusion power plants by then.
Joe Fischer
Snap Whipcrack..............
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After the Yellowstone volcano goes off the earth's temperature will fall
25 degrees! So stop crying about global warming.
zzbu...@netscape.net
wrote:
> Carbon Criminal Polluters wrote:
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> After the Yellowstone volcano goes off the earth's temperature will fall
> 25 degrees! So stop crying about global warming.
After the Yellowstone goes off, morons like Republicans
will definietley be dead so it doesn't matter.
Since the only people who are goiing to pick up the moron
bodies are Alaskan brridge retards.
Arnold Walker
<zzbu...@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:1172853747.4...@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
periods.
And life managed to continue .....you think life is too sensitive now to
survive.
Maybe as soon you get a grip on that, you can help with the globalwarming on
the other three planets.
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