Now 73 days to 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Starts wiping out RED
STATES.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060316/NATION/603160344/1020
Conditions favor hurricane blitz
Atlantic Basin is likely to face 17 named storms, nine hurricanes with
five at Category 3 or higher.
It looks more and more like another nerve-racking hurricane season.
Sea surface temperatures are above average, La Nina has returned and
the Atlantic Basin remains in an "up" cycle for storms.
Hurricane forecaster William Gray predicted an above-average season,
with 17 named storms, nine of them hurricanes and five of those
Category 3 or higher. He predicted at least one major hurricane would
hit the United States.
The numbers are likely to change as forecasters analyze updated data in
the next few weeks. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
is expected to issue its 2006 Atlantic hurricane outlook on May 22.
But some facts won't change.
The Atlantic Basin -- the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of
Mexico -- is in a hurricane "up" cycle that began in 1995.
The results were particularly pronounced the last two seasons, when 42
named storms formed in the Atlantic Basin.
La Nina is expected to help sustain the drought in parts of the South
and Southwest and bring additional rain to the Northwest and the
Tennessee Valley area.
Normally, crosswinds prevent many systems from strengthening into
tropical storms. La Nina inhibits the formation of those
storm-destroying crosswinds.
Yes, La Nina circulation fertilizes hurricanes:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/elnino/fig1.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/elnino/fig5.html
Twelve years ago (1994), Landsea and Gray effectively
predicted this return to high tropical cyclone activity
in the Atlantic basin:
"Since this conveyor belt slow down is likely to be a temporary
multidecadal fluctuation and not judged to be a permanent feature, it is
to be expected that this global oceanic circulation will again speed up
in coming years with concomitant increase in Sahel rainfall and Atlantic
intense hurricane activity. When this may occur is a matter of
speculation. If the past can be used as a guide then these drought
conditions should be expected to abate in the next few years. The Sahel
has now experienced over a quarter century (1968 to 1993) of nearly
continuous drought conditions. With that in mind it is to be expected
that rainier years lie ahead in the future. While this may have the
positive impact of increasing agricultural production in the countries
of the Sahel, ironically it will have a potentially disastrous influence
around the Caribbean Sea and along the U.S. East Coast. Intense
hurricanes similar to Hurricane Andrew are likely to become more
frequent. This is especially ominous when consideration is given to the
large increase in United States and Caribbean coastal populations and
property buildup since the last active hurricane period of the 1940s to
1960s."
The problrm with the deniers is that they never stake out one clear position
that can be refuted scientifically. In other words, they don't support
actual scientific theories. If their positions were scientific theories,
then they would be able to be proven false. It's like saying you believe in
the flying spaghetti monster. Prove the FSM isn't the one that created the
earth, and that is causing global warming! :)
>From 1939-1945 every drop of oil was pumped as fast as technology
allowed and then burned immediately. Vast battles were waged over oil
supplies, and people in South America ran coal reformers to make town
gas to operate their trucks, showing how desperate it was. Every coal
field was mined to make steel and aluminum 24 hours per day and to make
ammonia for explosives.
The natural sinks clogged. By 1950 the payback started, the worst
decade every in recorded history up until the 1990s.
Here is the activity record for the Atlantic graphed by HURDAT:
http://snipurl.com/nuac
Increasing Frequency, Increasing Intensity of dangerous storms in
recent times.
Scroll down http://ecosyn.us/1/1/08.JPG
Click the pictures for enlargements.
We see the buildup ramp up by 1945, but not peak from the clogged CO2
sinks until 1950-1951 then gradually taper off over 20 years to some
resemblence to weather patterns of the previous 100 years.
But it never truely ever returned to the milder climates of
yesteryears, did it?
http://ecosyn.us/1/1/01.JPG
http://ecosyn.us/1/1/02.JPG
http://ecosyn.us/1/1/03.JPG
"...When we strip away four least significant strong hurricanes there
are only two sequences of ten years which have four strong hurricanes
left on the chart. The recent decade shows the frequency of occurance
of strong hurricanes equal to 99 years on the left side. This is 9.9
times the frequency of this number of strong storms per decade,
compared to the first 99 yesteryears. ..."
You had the audacity to post your lies on the same day that Australia
is hit by Cyclone Larry as strong as Katrina at its worst, 175 mph
winds. And Cyclone Wati is on the same track following set to hit the
same place in a few more days.
> It's like saying you believe in
> the flying spaghetti monster. Prove the FSM isn't the one that created the
> earth, and that is causing global warming! :)
How can you speak so profanely about his Holiness the flying spaghetti
monster (blessings be upon him).
You phrenetic, jumped up little spalpeen. Your missive is emotional
tripe. None of it has a fundamental understanding of chemistry. Then
you blatantly massage facts:
> "...When we strip away four least significant strong hurricanes there
> are only two sequences of ten years which have four strong hurricanes
> left on the chart.
>
You are a cheeky little boy. Go to the back of the classroom.
And be quiet about it!
Beware! The Flying Spaghetti Monster will catch you in its' ubiquitous
information net and hang you up with its' string physics (blessings be
upon him/her/it).
--
Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com :-)
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This is from the Earth Observatory March 15, 2006
CENTURY OF DATA SHOWS INTENSIFICATION OF WATER CYCLE BUT NO INCREASE IN
STORMS OR FLOODS (Their capitals not mine.)
A review of the findings from more than 100 peer-reviewed studies shows
that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified,
including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not
consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of
tropical storms or floods over the past century. The USGS findings,
which have implications on the effect of global climate change, are
published today in the Journal of Hydrology.
"We are talking about two possible overall responses to global
climate warming: first an intensification of the water cycle being
manifested by more moisture in the air, more precipitation, more
runoff, more evapotranspiration, which we do see in this study; and
second, the potential effects of the intensification that would include
more flooding and more tropical storms which we don't see in this
study," said Huntington.
Contact:
Thomas Huntington
United States Geological Survey
http://eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov//Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2006/2006031521959.html
67 days to 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Get you plywood, rubber dingies, generators and jerry cans of gasoline
now, before the power goes out for months. Most parts of New Orleans
still have no power or water or sewer services -- more than 50% of the
city.
64 days to 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Stock up on candles, batteries, barrels of drinking water, toilet
paper, shovels to dig an outhouse when the sewer system failes for
weeks like in MIAMI after Wilma.
When Cyclone Larry hit last week it had winds 50 MILES PER HOUR
STRONGER THAN WHEN KATRINA HIT NEW ORLEANS.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Cyclone-Larry-saves-reef-from-bleaching/2006/03/27/1143330961358.html
Cyclone Larry saves reef from bleaching
March 27, 2006 - 9:29AM
Cyclone Larry has helped save the Great Barrier Reef from a major
bleaching event by lowering the water temperatures, a marine specialist
says.
Category five cyclone Larry roared westwards across the reef and onto
north Queensland on Monday, leaving wrecked homes, crops and businesses
in its wake.
Also this week, Cyclone Wati developed in the Coral Sea and moved
south-east as a category three storm, parallel to the coast, and
whipping up huge seas.
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland's (UQ)
Centre for Marine Science said the two cyclones at the end of the wet
season came in time to save the reef from bleaching after a one degree
rise in sea surface temperatures above the normal summer maximum due to
global warming.
"By creating waves, storms can cause the water column to mix and this
can be a good thing, if in the case of a bleaching event, you've had
warm water sitting over a coral reef area," he said.
Prof Hoegh-Guldberg said cyclones could also have a destructive impact
if they sat over coral reefs and broke them up through wave action.
But he said Larry was one of the fastest-moving cyclones, moving around
25kph and crossed the reef within hours, before destructive waves had
time to develop.
Prof Hoegh-Guldberg said cyclones Larry and Wati together had helped
avoid an event similar to that of 2002 when over 60 per cent of the
reef was bleached and 10 per cent actually died.
"It's certainly eliminated any possibility that a final blast of summer
might have caused further damage from coral bleaching, so for that, we
are relieved," he said.
And don't forget duck tape and plastic sheeting, just in case the boogyman
strikes.
Oh, and when the end is in sight and you are about to be pummled to death
by 120mph debrits from your neighbours house, remember that .... God loves
you.
Snicker.
Shouldn't that read, "The Flying Spaghetti Monster loves you"?
Ya, whatever turns your crank.
At least Dr. Gray is good enough to predict the hurricane activity per
science instead of rigging it so that it disproves global warming
theories. He has more credibility than most GW scientists.
> > > Hurricane forecaster William Gray predicted an above-average season,
> >
> > The esteemed Dr. William Gray is a senile old bastard who doesn't even
> > believe in global warming, much less even in global warming enhancement
> > of hurricanes. His predictions are absolutely worthless pseudoscience.
> >
> > My prediction : we gonna have a whole lotta hurricances this year.
> >
> > http://cosmic.lifeform.org
>
> At least Dr. Gray is good enough to predict the hurricane activity per
> science instead of rigging it so that it disproves global warming
> theories. He has more credibility than most GW scientists.
Gray patricipated in an ORGANIZED CRIME Fraud in 2002
APCO ASSociates is a known organized crime science fraud operation who
created TASSC (The A.S.S. Coalition). Gray is a crook and that's proved
by the records.
http://www.climatesearch.com/newsDetail.cfm?nwsId=54
http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Corrupt_CFACT.html
Howard Hayden (along with FIVE other CFACT accomplices) participated in
a fake-science event, a 'news conference', organized by the APCO public
relation firm (the same group that created TASSC for the tobacco
consortium as a felony fraud conspiracy organization). News Conference
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 9:00 AM
National Press Club Dining Room
150 Wellington Street, Ottawa
please contact:
Evan Zelikovitz, Vice President
APCO Worldwide (Canada)
or Tom Harris, Associate
APCO Worldwide (Canada)
Climate Specialists speaking at the news conference:
1. Tim Patterson - Carleton University professor of earth sciences
(Paleoclimatology specialization).
2. Fred Singer, President of The Science & Environmental Policy
Project and professor at George Mason University and Professor Emeritus
at the University of Virginia.
3. Tim Ball - professor of Climatology, University of Winnipeg and
the first climatology Ph.D. in Canada.
4. Madhav L. Khandekar, Environmental consultant. 25 years Research
Scientist from Environment Canada.
5. Pat Michaels - Michaels is a research professor of environmental
sciences at the University of Virginia, with the George C. Marshall
Institute and Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato
Institute, both in Washington D.C.
6. Professor Fred Michel of Carleton University Department of Earth
Sciences
Energy Engineering Specialists:
1. J. Terry Rogers, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carleton
University. He is currently the Chairman of the Research and
Development Advisory Panel to AECL Board of Directors.
2. Howard C. Hayden, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of
Connecticut.
Not attending news conference but available for phone & email
interviews:
* Roger Pocklington, Competitve Enterprise Institute stooge
* Sallie Baliunas
* Willie Soon
* John Christy Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute,
Independent Institute stooge
* Chris Essex, McKitrick sidekick
* Roger Pielke
* William M. Gray
* Fred Seitz
* George Taylor, OISM felony fraud
* Sherwood Idso
* David Wojick, P.E.
* Art Robinson of OISM
* Herb I. H. Saravanamuttoo
* Robert Balling
* Ross McKitrick
* Philip Stott
So you have nothing to argue, except name calling and slander?
How can it be SLANDER if it is TRUE. Rightwinger websites proudly
display the facts that GRAY participated in an ORGANIZED CRIME FRAUD
event.
APCO ASSociates is known Organized Crime from the trials evidence of
the Big Seven Tobacco Conspiracy Trials where 46 states attorney
generals gathered up the evidence of ORGANIZE CRIME SCIENCE HOAXES.
APCO ASSociates was caught in the net -- the judge ordered the evidence
posted online at the defendent's expense for 10 years just so stupid
people like you couldn't get away with lying about the evidence.
FRED SINGER was caught in the net -- his involvement in FOUR ORGANIZED
CRIME FELONIES came to light. They were after bigger fish, so he
swamthrough the net, but the EVIDENCE is ONLINE of his FELONY FRAUD
SCIENCE HOAXES.
EVERYBODY connected to Singer or connected to APCO is presumed involved
in ORGANIZED CRIME SCIENCE FRAUDS more serious than the stem cells
scandal in Korea.
You are linking him to tobbaco and one has nothing to do with the
other. Also the fact that past company officers committed crime does
not make it orginized crime. If it were then it would be underground.
You are a chicken little heritic, and if anything you are hurting GW
cause, not helping.
> You are linking him to tobbaco and one has nothing to do with the
> other. Also the fact that past company officers committed crime does
> not make it orginized crime. If it were then it would be underground.
Gray is linked to KNOWN SCIENCE FRAUDS. APCO ASSociates orchestrated a
SERIES of science frauds, not just one. They used FRED SINGER as
accomplice, but SINGER committed his own frauds, five known felonies,
without them.
NOBODY honest will ASSociate with APCO ASSociates. Gray can only
participate with them if he is fraud himself.
There is NOT ONE SPECK OF EVIDENCE that any of the criminals at APCO
ever left the organization. You tell a LIE to try to give an appearance
that their criminal history is in the dim past, yet this FRAUD was
dated 2002, not so long ago. SINGER also committed a new fraud, another
fraud, in 2002, so he was still acting as a FELON then at that time
period.
Others in the group also are found involved in CRIMINAL FRAUDS.
For example FRED SEITZ is listed in the group with Gray -- SEITZ is
involved with the OISM fraud and a partner in SINGER's 1993-1994
frauds, as well as director of SINGER's SEPPtic tank. Baliunas and Soon
were both involved in the OISM FRAUD, as was Art Robinson in that list.
That is six known science criminals in one fraud operation.
> You are a chicken little heritic, and if anything you are hurting GW
> cause, not helping.
It never hurts to expose ORGANIZED CRIME ROOTS in the anti-Global
Warming Fraud Crimes.
You are given LEGAL NOTICE that you are aiding and abetting an
ORGANIZED CRIME FELONY FRAUD operation, that you have joined in an
"enterprise" as defined by law, have committed one or more acts of
fraud using WIRES or U.S. Mail in collaboration with the illegal
enterprise. From this date forward any further actions on your part to
aid this enterprise are legally considered prima facia premeditated,
willful intent to violate FEDERAL LAW.
SEPPtic Tank is an ORGANIZED CRIME front operation headed by lifelong
career-criminal S. Fred Singer.
In 1994 Singer wrote a science hoax piece for big tobacco. The piece
was submitted to RJ Reynolds lawyers pre-publication. The piece was
short some "peer-reviewers" so a request was made for some names of
tame "whitecoats" willing to lie for money to sign off on the document.
Ultimately a bunch of names appeared on this science hoax document, as
well as inside it's pages. The whole thing became evidence in the
FEDERAL trial of the Big Seven Tobacco Companies in the late 1990s. The
documents were produced by subpoena (a turm meaning "under pain", like
we will hurt you bad if you don't comply). The evidence passed due
process of law in a trial admitted as evidence. The judge ordered the
evidence posted online for 10 years at Big Tobacco's expense -- oh,
year, the Tobacco Companies also agreed to pay $246,000,000,000.00 too.
Fred Singer is corrupt and I have seen the evidence from the trial that
proved he is corrupt. He is an ORGANIZED CRIME figure who uses science
hoaxes for corporate clients to falsify the state of knowledge on
subjects his clients need confused and obfuscated.
SEPP was organized in the premises of a Sun Myung Moon-owned office
suite. Moon is also a career criminal who was convicted of tax evasion
and money laundering, sent to FREDERAL PRISON, and is a known felon
convict.
FRED SINGER's SEPPtic Tank moved to the offices of Charles G. Koch
Summer Fellows Program at the Koch-owned George Mason University.
Killer Charles G. Koch and brother Killer David Koch operate KOCH
INDUSTRIES, which itself has been convicted of the largest fine in
corporate history -- $35,000,000.00 for pollution of air, lands and
waters of six states.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2000/January/019enrd.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/mojo_400/51_koch.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37628-2004Jul8.html
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/981d17e5ab07246f8525686500621079?OpenDocument
Charges G. Koch co-founded CATO Inst., David Koch sits on it's board
watching the family interests, and SINGER, MILLOY, MICHAELS, LINDZEN &
BALLING are all organized crime figures on the payrolls of a known
ORGANIZED CRIME ring founded by known ORGANIZED CRIME Lords.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/em.php?mapid=361
http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Singer-1993-1994.html
http://www.atlasusa.org/highlight_archive/1995/H1995-02-Environment.html
Dr. Singer. SEPP's address is 4084 University Drive, Suite 101,
Fairfax, VA 22030 (Tel. 703-934-6932).
http://snipurl.com/og9j
Results about 172 for 4084 University Drive, Suite 101 Fairfax, VA
22030 Koch.
http://snipurl.com/og9o
Results about 92 for 4084 University Drive, Suite 101 Fairfax, VA
22030 SEPP.
http://snipurl.com/og9s
Resultsabout 149 for 4084 University Drive, Suite 101 Fairfax, VA 22030
IHS | "Institute for Humane Studies"
http://snipurl.com/oga1
Results about 581 for Fred Singer Koch IHS | "Institute for Humane
Studies".
http://snipurl.com/ogai
Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination
http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Singer-Nightline.html
Documenting the Corruption of S. Fred Singer
http://snipurl.com/ogay
Results about 333 for "Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A
Critical Examination".
A corporation is a person independent of their underlying officers. The
corporation in question was absolutely involved in crime and absolutely is
organized. Hence it is an organized crime ring, and members are therefore
involved in organized crime.
Leftest crock! If it is organized crime then everybody including the
delivery truck driver is a crook.
In fact, a getaway driver is equally guilty of all serious offenses
committed by any member of an organized crime operation, and can
receive the maximum sentence as punishment just like the actual
triggerman.
The law REQUIRES that all citizens abstain from participation in crime.
No exceptions for getaway drivers or cover-up operators aiding before,
during or after the actual offense.
If you have been given LEGAL NOTICE, as defined by law, the judge and
the jury can presume premeditated intent, as defined by law, if you
continue as a member of a crime operation where any honest citizen
would have carefully examined all the facts and withdrawn.
There's a 9/11 captial case right now about a guilty party who will be
executed because he withheld knowledge from authorities of crimes
others were planning and carrying out.
You are not different from him -- you have the same duty to call a
halt to crimes by reporting them to authorities, and can receive
maximum punishment for aiding others by refusal to perform your citizen
duty.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/14456302.htm
Warning: Failure to prepare for hurricane season my be dangerous
It's May Day, but before you start dancing around a maypole to
celebrate the spring weather, consider this: It's 31 days before the
official start of hurricane season.
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9050159/detail.html
Businesses Stock Up On Generators Before Hurricane Season
DORAL, Fla. -- Many South Florida businesses and homeowners are
snapping up generators after last hurricane season, when many who did
not have them swore they would not go another hurricane season without
power after storms.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12518762/
Will the levees hold this hurricane season?
With June 1 quickly approaching, Army engineers race against time
NEW ORLEANS - It's a race New Orleans can't afford to lose - repair
its hurricane protection system before the next storm season starts.
The job is 73 percent finished, with 31 days to go, and the man in
charge says it will be done June 1.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060423/LOCAL/204230334/1078/news
Post-storm gasoline may remain scarce in 2006 hurricane season
TALLAHASSEE - It was frustratingly hard to find any gas. If you were
lucky, you found a long line leading to the pumps. In most cases, you
were out of luck.
That was often the aftermath of a hurricane during the past two years
in Florida.
When state lawmakers came to Tallahassee this spring, they vowed to
find a solution to the post-hurricane gas shortages. Many suggested the
problem could be fixed by requiring gas stations to have emergency
generators to keep their pumps pumping after a storm knocks out the
electric power.
But with bills starting to take their final form, some are suggesting
the solution is falling far short of the mark.
There will essentially be no help for the 2006 hurricane season, which
begins in a little more than a month. Most of the provisions of the
bills won't take effect until June 1, 2007, the beginning of next
year's hurricane season.
David OHara
Tallahassee, FL
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/500469.html
Forecasters: Hurricane season could be wild and woolly
Batten down the hatches - early forecasts predict another fast and
furious hurricane season is brewing just around the corner.
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_4794.shtml
Hurricane Season in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico -
"Know Before You Go!"
American citizens considering travel to storm-prone regions during
Hurricane Season should carefully weigh the risks versus benefits of
their trip before finalizing plans. Those who choose to travel should
devise emergency plans in the event of a major storm. Even inland
areas, well away from the coastline, can experience destructive winds,
tornadoes, and floods from tropical storms and hurricanes.
http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=9292
FEMA Unprepared for Hurricane Season
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/14448241.htm
Agreed: FEMA isn't ready for coming hurricane season
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000016/001612.htm
Cayman gears up for 2006 hurricane season
With only a month to go before the Hurricane Season is upon us, the
country is gearing up for it. Although Caymanians and residents are no
strangers to these weather phenomena, it can be an alarming reminder
when shutters start to go up on Government buildings as they will this
week.
http://www.newschannel6.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10872
Texas Prepares for Hurricane Season
A four-day hurricane preparedness exercise is underway in Texas. The
state initiated its largest ever hurricane preparedness exercise
designed to test state, local and federal officials readiness to
respond to a catastrophic hurricane.
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive4/043006/tp13de13.htm?date=043006&story=tp13de13.htm
Are you ready for the hurricane season?
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9141451/detail.html
Miami-Dade Leaders Urge Residents To Prepare For Hurricane Season
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/LIFE/605010302/1004
Educate yourself for hurricane season
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060502005780&newsLang=en
FPL Prepares for the 2006 Hurricane Season by Conducting Its Annual
``Dry Run'' Exercise
http://wjz.com/local/local_story_121220240.html
Maryland Prepares For Hurricane Season
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS/605010345/1002/EDUCATION05
Cubans feeling vulnerable as hurricane season approaches
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfl-mayocol30apr30,0,4006050.column
Residents sweat details as hurricane season looms
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=70549_0_10_0_C
Red Cross seeks volunteers for hurricane season
http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/trident/11_12/features/41016-1.html
Preparations are being made for hurricane season
http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/tester/11_17/local_news/40978-1.html
Norfolk's NMOC prepares for hurricane season
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=4830119&nav=menu40_3
Pet Friendly Shelter Will Open This Hurricane Season
GLOBAL WARMING STORMS FROM HELL: Hail Storms, Dust Storms, Firestorms,
Tornado Storms, Hurricane Storms. Flood Storms...
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2006/04/26/67593.htm
Insured Losses to Top $100 Million in Texas Hail Storm
... Baseball-size hail pounded the city of San Marcos smashing vehicles
at car dealerships and shopping malls. An estimated 10,000 auto claims
are expected as well as 7,000 homeowner and commercial property claims.
A manager at Honda Classic in San Marcos said many of his 110 new
vehicles on his lot would be declared total losses. ... The state's
worst hailstorm struck the Dallas/Fort Worth area on May 5, 1995
causing $1 billion in damages.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.nationlede30apr30,0,3599102.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
Storms batter eastern Texas with wind, baseball-sized hail ... wind up
to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs, damaging buildings and
slamming parked airplanes into one another at an airport. ... "When you
have winds from 80 to 100 mph, it can do damage similar to that of a
tornado," said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service. "That can do some very, very big damage."
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/30/04302006wactornado.html
Saturday tornado leaves Waco reeling
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/04/29/texas.storms/
Tornadoes follow stormy night in Texas
... Friday night storms ripped through homes and tossed airplanes into
each other at an airport near the Oklahoma border. ... baseball-size
hail cause two injuries and widespread damage to business and homes.
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_120185115.html
Storm Destroys Hundreds of Structures, Few Injured ... The twin engine
Cessna was thrown into a wall and wound up resting on the Citation
business jet. Across the field, vintage aircraft once parked facing
each other were left in a jumbled pile.
http://www.thesuntimes.com/articles/2006/04/20/news/news09.txt
Two and a half weeks ago, a little hail storm came through the area
south of Heber Springs late on a Sunday afternoon. After it passed, I
had two automobiles "totaled" by the car insurance company because
of the heavy damage, and my homeowners insurance wrote my wife and I a
check for a new roof, gutters, etc. ... Just what was it like? Well,
picture a dozen kids outside your house, each with a bucket of rocks,
and they're throwing those rocks as hard and fast as they can at the
side of your house. That's what it sounded like. Then picture going
outside to survey the damage and the first thing you view, as far as
the eye can see, are hundreds of hailstones literally as large as your
fist. Hundreds were baseball-sized; hundreds were "only" as big as
a golf ball; a few were grapefruit-sized. They were lying on the
ground, and many of them were almost buried in the dirt, honestly
resembling small meteorites. The yard and surrounding field was still
white with them hours later. ... We're not sure size the one was that
finally crashed through the skylight over our dining room as we kept
rather anxious watch from the center of a room. We were too busy
dodging flying glass as the whole thing fell to the floor right at our
feet in about a million twinkly pieces. The skylight, by the way, was
thick, double-paned glass that is never supposed to break.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0428_060428_fire.html
Explosive Wildfire Season Predicted for U.S. West, South
Wildfires have been raging intermittently since the beginning of the
year in parts of the western United States, where the term "fire
season" has lost all meaning. ... In what is already by far the worst
year for wildfires in Texas history, a million acres (405,000 hectares)
burned in the Texas panhandle during one week in March, and 19 lives
have been lost since January 1. ... In terms of fire damage, 2006
already looks like a year for the record books. ... while Texas and
Oklahoma have so far experienced the most widespread damage, the entire
South is a potential tinderbox. ... "We went at one point this winter
for 132 days without precipitation," said Ken Palmrose, a spokesperson
with the U.S. Forest Service in Phoenix, Arizona.
http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=3144
FL wildfires burn homes ... Weekend wildfires damaged or destroyed more
than nine homes in southwest Florida, and authorities say the blazes
are arson. A spokesperson for the Lee County Department of Emergency
Management said the number of homes damaged and destroyed is wavering
between nine and 15 as some are just now being surveyed. ... The
wildfire also burned numerous vehicles and outbuildings as it scorched
more than 1,000 acres. While the blaze is now mostly contained,
firefighters worry that continued hot and dry weather this week may
cause it to flare up again. ... Three other wildfires are currently
burning in Florida. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag
warning for much of the state Monday due to very low humidity levels.
Every Florida county except one is also under a Fire Weather Watch.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/28/man-wildfires060428.html
Wildfires already burning in Manitoba ... With the threat of spring
flooding barely past in Manitoba, officials are expressing concern
about the threat of wildfires. ... Provincial fire officials say 20
wildfires have started across the province already this year and eight
are currently burning, mostly grass fires. Two of the eight fires are
considered out of control.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=d947e78d-34d1-4163-ad54-c35b21308fee&k=94904
Wildfire tally stands at 52 ... Twenty new fires started between Friday
night and Saturday morning in Alberta's dry forest protection area,
boosting the number of fires burning in the province to 52. ... Nine of
the new fires were immediately extinguished, nine are under control and
two were being held, said Rick Strickland, a provincial wildfire
information officer. "Held" fires have the potential to grow. ... So
far there have been 318 fires in Alberta, far more than the five-year
average of 99. They have chewed through 2,163 hectares, which is three
times the average area burned.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/537/2006/04/24/6...@80721.htm
Tracing the Source of the Storm
On the morning of April 17, Beijing citizens dragged themselves out of
bed for the start of another week's work. Drawing back their curtains,
they could hardly believe the scene present before them. Almost
overnight, the city had been coated in thick dust, somewhat similar in
appearance to a blanket of yellow snow. However, although this was
admittedly the worst incident yet, Beijingers have suffered from about
a dozen dust storms over the last month or two. Indeed, this year's
spring has been notable for extremely sandy weather conditions in the
city.On the other hand, the dust in Beijing is just small a few grains
of sand when compared to the storms which have afflicted north and
northwestern China. Just one example of the disruption caused by recent
weather conditions should illustrate this point. A train traveling from
Xinjiang to Beijing was approaching the border of Xinjiang and Gansu
Province, when a sudden sand storm smashed every window on the north
side of the train, causing numerous injuries, although fortunately, no
fatalities. After a delay of 33 hours, the train finally limped into
Beijing West Railway Station, looking extremely the worse for wear.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/285981939193599
Dust storms tangle cars ... several chain-reaction crashes due to dust
storms in Yakima and Kittitas counties, authorities said.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/703154
Dust storms give China eco warning ... A sand storm struck the Chinese
capital on Monday covering homes, streets and cars in brown dust and
leaving the skies murky yellow as northern China suffered the worst
pollution in years. The Chinese Central Meteorological Station
estimated that the storms had enveloped one eighth of the country over
recent days. Two workers died several days ago in ferocious storms in
the western province of Gansu, Xinhua said.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=35501&archive=true
Dust storms blanket S. Korea; Army takes 'proactive' approach
Yellow dust storms blanketed the Korean peninsula Saturday, leading the
South Korean government to release health advisories to the public. The
pollution levels measured at a high of 2,281 particles per million in a
cubic meter of air in Seoul. U.S. officials consider 301-500 parts per
million a "hazardous" health concern.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3828632.html
Another Asian import: bad air, Pollution rides the jet stream across
the Pacific, U.S. scientists say
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=6936
Stormy weather: 150mph cyclone kills at least 2 in Burma
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/04/28/stories/2006042801732100.htm
Cyclone Mala is strongest after Orissa Cyclone ... the severest storm
in the Bay of Bengal basin after the Orissa Super Cyclone of 1999...
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/04/29/stories/2006042902232100.htm
Cyclone Mala churns into Category 4 status ... Tropical Cyclone Mala
is now a very severe cyclonic storm (Category 4) and most weather
models indicate that the system is just a churn away from being a
category-topping super cyclonic storm. Both the London-based Tropical
Storm Risk Group and the US Navy's Joint typhoon Warning Centre agree
that Cyclone Mala will undergo another round of intensification during
the next 12 hours when winds are seen clocking speeds in excess of 125
knots (230 kmph) gusting to 150 knots (277 kmph).
http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=600
Schools damage and 3 trawlers sank as Cyclone Mala hit Arakan ... the
cyclone produced winds up to 120 mph.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200604301510.htm
2 killed, 21 hurt as cyclone Mala slams into Myanmar ... "Even
containers fell and cars were blown into the air by what looked like a
tornado," he said, requesting anonymity because of the political
climate in the country.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1687683,000500020010.htm
Four people were killed and 31 injured as Cyclone Mala battered
Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy delta, its west coast and the outskirts of the
capital, state-run media reported on Monday. The tropical cyclone,
packing winds of 240 kilometers an hour, slammed into Myanmar on Friday
and Saturday destroying hundreds of houses, two beach resorts and at
least five factories, the Kyemon daily and the International Federation
of the Red Cross said.
Which of those events DIDN'T HAPPEN? And which one would you prefer to
happen to YOU?
MORE STORMS FROM HELL --
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2006/05/01/1558788-sun.html
Beijing hit by killer storm
BEIJING -- Hail and rainstorms killed 12 people, destroyed thousands of
homes and caused millions of dollars in damage in China's eastern
Shandong province, the official Xinhua News Agency said today. The wild
weather battered the Shandong cities of Heze, Linyi, Zaozhuang, Jining
and Liaocheng from Wednesday to Friday last week, Xinhua reported. The
news agency cited Shandong's civil affairs department as saying that
2.18 million people were affected by the storms, without elaborating.
Twelve people died and 58 others were seriously injured. The hail and
rainstorms destroyed 3,243 houses and damaged 155,000 hectares of
farmland, resulting in an economic loss of 2.2 billion Chinese yuan,
according to Xinhua.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200605/kt2006050317473311960.htm
Dust Storm Brings Higher Density of Heavy Metals
The yellow dust storm that blanketed the country last month contained a
density of heavy metals 12 times higher than the average measurements,
according to the Ministry of Environment.
http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=4429
Bush issues disaster declaration for Hawaii
The order comes after 43 days of rain and flooding this year
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=002
Storms kill at least 27 in Midwest, South
A line of thunderstorms spun off high winds and howling tornadoes
Sunday, killing at least 27 people and leaving a swath of shredded
buildings, downed trees and power lines across six states.
Twenty-three people were killed in northwestern Tennessee, 12 of them
in Dyer County and eight in neighboring Gibson County, officials in the
Volunteer State said Monday. Three people died in Missouri and another
in Illinois, authorities said. Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Holt said his
county saw "absolute total destruction of homes." "There's nothing left
but a foundation on some houses," he said, adding that large trees
across roadways had slowed the deployment of emergency equipment early
on. The National Weather Service said it had preliminary reports of 63
tornadoes overnight, according to The Associated Press.
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/TSR/200602W_02W.htm
Tropical storm 02W
09 May 2006 02:29:00 GMT
Source: Tropical Storm Risk
Mark Saunders
Website: http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com
Tropical storm 02W is forecast to strike the Philippines as a typhoon
at about 08:00 GMT on 12 May. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air
Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall
will be near 13.0 N, 125.7 E. 02W is expected to bring 1-minute maximum
sustained winds to the region of around 138 km/hr (86 mph). Wind gusts
in the area may be considerably higher.
According to the Saffir-Simpson damage scale the potential property
damage and flooding from a storm of 02W's strength (category 1) at
landfall includes:
* Storm surge generally 1.2-1.5 metres (4-5 feet) above normal.
* No real damage to building structures.
* Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and
trees.
* Some damage to poorly constructed signs.
* Some coastal road flooding and minor pier damage.
There is also the potential for flooding further inland due to heavy
rain.
The information above is provided for guidance only and should not be
used to make life or death decisions or decisions relating to property.
Anyone in the region who is concerned for their personal safety or
property should contact their official national weather agency or
warning centre for advice.
This alert is provided by Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) sponsored by
Benfield, Royal & SunAlliance, Crawford & Company and UCL (University
College London). TSR acknowledge the support of the UK Met Office.
> 22 days to 2006 Hurricane Season -- FIRST PACIFIC TYPHOON HAS FORMED.
At the end of this season, I'm hoping someone will remember all the names
they're given and in both tribute and in jest, will present them in the
form of a horse race.
--
Listed? You must be joking http://relays.osirusoft.com
Pallorium V. Jared ruling http://www.oretek.com/lawsuite/ruling.pdf
http://www.oretek.com/lawsuite/
(1) If New Orleans gets in the way of another hurricane before the November
elections, who believes Ray Nagin will be re-elected, or will the survivors
just chalk that up their dumb luck to dumb luck?
(1a) If anyone needs any proof in the stupidity of the human race, consider
that the mayor actually has people who will vote for him again.
(2) If they can find him this time, will the survivors shoot Ray Nagin, or
just stake him out on the side of some really low spot?
(3) Will Mega-Movers get a contract to move the whole city about 50 miles?
(4) Will Ray Nagin make a deal to have the first moslem "nuke" go off in the
newly flooded city, thus moving it about 50 miles?
Some people may realize that Ray Nagin does not control hurricanes.
--
Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")
We have known since the 1800s that pumping more and more greenhouse
gases into the air will make it hotter. We have been pumping them
faster than ever, so we should expect on average the oceans to be a
little hotter than the previous year. We have seen this effect through
direct measurement. However predicting hurricanes is not quite that
simple since the oceans have currents that change periodically and
drastically rearranging the heat. However, ON AVERAGE you should
expect each hurricane season to be a bit rougher than the last.
--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching.
At the end of the Season I'm wondering if any of you will be left alive
to care about old usenet messages.
22 days to 2006 Hurricane Season -- FIRST PACIFIC TYPHOON HAS FORMED.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_climate_optimum
That was THEN, this is NOW...
"Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product."
"Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product." "Doubt is our product."
http://www.markhertsgaard.com/Articles/2006/WhileWashingtonSlept/
"... But if the deniers appear to have lost the scientific argument,
they prolonged the policy battle, delaying actions to reduce emissions
when such cuts mattered most. "For 25 years, people have been warning
that we had a window of opportunity to take action, and if we waited
until the effects were obvious it would be too late to avoid major
consequences," says Oppenheimer. "Had some individual countries,
especially the United States, begun to act in the early to mid-1990s,
we might have made it. But we didn't, and now the impacts are here."
"The goal of the disinformation campaign wasn't to win the debate,"
says Gelbspan. "The goal was simply to keep the debate going. When the
public hears the media report that some scientists believe warming is
real but others don't, its reaction is 'Come back and tell us when
you're really sure.' So no political action is taken."
Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chaired the
1994 hearings where tobacco executives unanimously declared under oath
that cigarettes were not addictive, watches today's global-warming
deniers with a sense of déjà vu. It all reminds him of the
confidential slogan a top tobacco flack coined when arguing that the
science on smoking remained unsettled: "Doubt is our product." Now,
Waxman says, "not only are we seeing the same tactics the tobacco
industry used, we're seeing some of the same groups. For example, the
Advancement of Sound Science Coalition was created [in 1993] to debunk
the dangers of secondhand smoking before it moved on to global
warming."
The scientific work Frederick Seitz oversaw for R. J. Reynolds from
1978 to 1987 was "perfectly fine research, but off the point," says
Stanton A. Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, and a lead author of The Cigarette Papers
(1996), which exposed the inner workings of the Brown & Williamson
Tobacco Corporation. "Looking at stress, at genetics, at lifestyle
issues let Reynolds claim it was funding real research. But then it
could cloud the issue by saying, 'Well, what about this other possible
causal factor?' It's like coming up with 57 other reasons for Hurricane
Katrina rather than global warming."
For his part, Seitz says he was comfortable taking tobacco money, "as
long as it was green. I'm not quite clear about this moralistic issue.
We had absolutely free rein to decide how the money was spent." Did the
research give the tobacco industry political cover? "I'll leave that to
the philosophers and priests," he replies. ..."
http://snipurl.com/no7h
Countdown to Start of Hurricane Assault on East Coast and Wall Street
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Atlantic_hurricane_season
Pre-season forecasts
On December 5, 2005, Dr. Gray's team issued its first extended-range
forecast for the 2006 season, predicting a well above-average season
(17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 5 of Category 3 or higher).[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Indian_cyclone_season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-06_Southern_Hemisphere_tropical_cyclone_season
In 2006 so far there have been 3 category-5 hurricanes (cyclones), 2
category-4 hurricanes (cyclones/typhoons), 1 category-3 Hurricane
(cyclone), and one ongoing category-2 hurricane (typhoon) predicted to
reach category-4/5 at Hong Kong by midweek.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Larry
Category 5
Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a tropical cyclone that made landfall
in Australia during the 2005-06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone
season. It is considered to be the worst cyclone to hit the coast of
Queensland since 1931.[2]
Formed March 18, 2006
Dissipated March 21, 2006
Highest winds 290 km/h (180 mph) gusts estimated, 200 km/h (125 mph)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Monica
Category 5
Cyclone Monica, also designated Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica, was a
tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia from April 17, 2006
until April 26, 2006. It is the strongest storm of the 2005-06 Southern
Hemisphere tropical cyclone season thus far, and one of the strongest
tropical cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.
Formed April 17, 2006
Dissipated April 26, 2006
Highest winds 350 km/h (215 mph) (Gusts), 250 km/h (155 mph)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-06_Southern_Hemisphere_tropical_cyclone_season#Severe_Tropical_Cyclone_Glenda
Category 5
Severe Tropical Cyclone Glenda
A tropical low entered Joseph Bonaparte Gulf on March 21. The low made
landfall just west of Northern Territory/Western Australia border.
Though slightly inland, the low showed potential for development and
TCWC Darwin started issuing tropical cyclone advisories on this system
on March 24. The low tracked westward across North Kimberley District
and into Indian Ocean late March 26. On the next day, it strengthened
quickly into Tropical Cyclone Glenda. The strethening trend went on and
its sustained winds increased from 35 knots to 115 knots with pressure
dropping from 990hPa to 915hPa in just 32 hours. It attained Category 5
status on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on 28 March 2006 before weakening
slightly.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-06_Southern_Hemisphere_tropical_cyclone_season#Severe_Tropical_Cyclone_Floyd
Category 4
Severe Tropical Cyclone Floyd
On March 21, TCWC Perth started issuing advises on a Tropical Low. That
low later strengthened to Tropical Cyclone Floyd as a Category 1 on the
Australian scale. Overnight on March 22, it became a severe tropical
cyclone. Strengthening further, Floyd reached Australian Category 4 at
8 p.m. AWST (1200 UTC) on March 23. Floyd attained its peak intensity
with maximum sustained winds up to 105 knots (10-minute average) on
March 24. A steady weakening trend occurred thereafter and Floyd became
a tropical low about 285 kilometres west northwest of Exmouth on March
27.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mala
Category 4 hurricane,
Formed April 25, 2006
Dissipated April 29, 2006
Highest winds 184-202 km/h (115-126 mph)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-06_Southern_Hemisphere_tropical_cyclone_season#Severe_Tropical_Cyclone_Wati
Category 3 cyclone
Severe Tropical Cyclone Wati
Tropical Depression 16F formed on March 17 and strengthened into
Tropical Cyclone Wati on March 19 north of New Caledonia. It moved
westwards and slowly strengthened into a Category 3 cyclone on the
Australian scale before coming to a near standstill over the Coral Sea.
After remaining stationary for most of March 22, Wati took a
southeasterly course on March 23, gaining speed and continuing that
course on March 24. A cyclone watch was issued for Lord Howe Island and
a cyclone warning was issued for Norfolk Island. Wati passed between
the two islands and became extratropical on March 25. The remains of
Wati brought heavy rain and strong winds to the North Island of New
Zealand on March 26, with gusts of 140km/h reported at Cape Reinga.
[17]
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Typhoon Chanchu (Caloy)
Predicted to go to category 4-5 by midweek at Hong Kong.
An area of disturbed weather formed around May 5 and moved westward.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center released a Tropical Cyclone Formation
Alert on May 8, shortly before it upgraded the storm to a Tropical
Depression. At the next update at 3 AM May 9, the JTWC upgraded the
system to a tropical storm. The Japan Meteorological Agency named the
tropical storm Chanchu later that same day. The name "Chanchu" was
submitted by Macao and means pearl in the Macanese language. The JTWC
then upgraded it to a typhoon on May 10. The storm made two landfalls
in the Philippines. After leaving the Philippines, the JMA upgraded the
storm to a typhoon.
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9 Days to beginning of 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
140 days into 2006 US Tornadoes Season.
http://ecosyn.us/1/Tornadoes.html
Those of us who grew up in the 1950s, lived through the 1960s, 70s,
80s, 90, and Naughties know there were never these many tornadoes
before.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/torn/monthlytornstats.html
2006 2005 2004 2003 3-year
average
Jan 45 33 3 0 12
Feb 15 10 9 18 12
Mar 226 62 50 43 2
Apr 324 132 125 157 138
May 116 123 509 543 392
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Total 724 360 696 761 606
YEAR TO DATE (Jan-May)
(Note: prior years include full May Totals)
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FULL YEAR TOTALS
2006 2005 2004 2003 3-year
average
726 1264 1819 1376 1488
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http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/tornado-totals-monthly-US.html
U.S. Tornado Frequency 1950 - 2005 (Annual totals extracted from above
links).
In the table below, years marked with YELLOW background had less total
tornadoes for 365 days than 2006 had for the first 140 days. Years with
more than 1000 tornadoes are marked in Bold Red color.
1950 = 201 1951 = 260 1952 = 240 1953 = 422 1954 = 550
1955 = 593 1956 = 504 1957 = 858 1958 = 564 1959 = 604
1960 = 616 1961 = 697 1962 = 657 1963 = 463 1964 = 704
1965 = 897 1966 = 585 1967 = 926 1968 = 660 1969 = 608
1970 = 653 1971 = 889 1972 = 741 1973 = 1102 1974 = 945
1975 = 919 1976 = 834 1977 = 852 1978 = 789 1979 = 855
1980 = 866 1981 = 782 1982 = 1047 1983 = 931 1984 = 907
1985 = 684 1986 = 765 1987 = 656 1988 = 702 1989 = 856
1990 = 1133 1991 = 1132 1992 = 1297 1993 = 1173 1994 = 1082
1995 = 1234 1996 = 1173 1997 = 1148 1998 = 1424 1999 = 1342
2000 = 1167 2001 = 1351 2002 = 941 2003 = 1376 2004 = 1819
2005 = 1264
As is seen, no year reported 1000 or more tornadoes before 1973, and it
was 9 years later the second year over 1000 was counted in 1982, then 9
years more before the next 1000+ year. After 1990 there has only been
one year with under 1000 tornadoes.
The claim is made that more short duration weak tornadoes are being
reported, and that accounts for the higher modern numbers. This is not
plausible. As seen above, the months of March and April 2006 have more
total tornadoes in each month than entire years bygone. The tornado
season started earlier and more violently than the three prior years.
The tornado alley of frequent tornadoes has expanded in size, and there
is now a previously unknown "bonus tornado season" or "second season"
which previously never existed.
More made-up crazyass republicrap. Good luck with your tiny cult!
Well I accept you option of your flacid, limp, impotent emissions, but
the rest of the hairy-chested red-blooded Ummericans of the Exited
Snakes have damned potent emissions, red hot emissions, Global Warming
Testasterone Emissions.
Sorry about you, GirlyMan. Maybe if you keep taking your oral
testasterone doses by Sucking on a BIG KOCH-Industries pipreline of
propaganda you might at least get hair on the palms of your hands, just
like your momma told you would happen.
http://ecosyn.us/adti/Christy/John_Christy_CEI.html
John Christy
Associate of known TASSC science-fraud felons Patrick J. Michaels, and
Steve Milloy, also continuous association with felony fraud organized
crime operation APCO Associates. Court records ordered to be publically
posted online for the nation to see unequivically shows that TASSC was
conceived as a criminal fraud operation by Philip Morris Tobacco and
engaged in a years-long series of public deceptions using compliant
science-hoaxers known as "whitecoats" by the crime masterminds and
moneybags.
Christy uses the "TASSC METHOD" of inserting errors into the public
record, which when caught are reluctantly retracted, but the false
results are quoted endlessly into the future by collaborative
operators. [Background evidence passed through due process in a Federal
Court of Law establishing the criminal fraud nature of TASSC has been
ordered posted online on the internet by the judge so that every
citizen can examine this evidence of fraud for themselves. The trial
ended with $280,000,000,000 settlement by the tobacco paymasters, so
this is hardly a trial which wasn't fought tooth & nail. This is a very
partial listing of evidence. Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, ... Fred Singer Euro-TASSC 276, 277, 278,
279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, ... Heidelberg Appeal
304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, ... Milloy TASSC 356, 357, 358,
359, 360, 361, 362, ...]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christy
Satellite temperature record
Christy became famous as early as 1993 [creation of TASSC] for
claiming the global temperature was actually decreasing based on the
"more accurate" satellite data. But others over the years have shown
errors in his interpretation of the data which has slowly and
consistently increased his results. This is in addition to the
improving accuracy of the short data set [4] (it begins in December
1978). In 1997 his testimony to the Committee on Environment and Public
Works pointed out that his (and Dr. Roy Spencer's) data indicated a
decrease in global temperature. Before the same committe in 2001, he
stated it was at an increase that was "a rate less than a third that
observed at the surface" at 0.045 C/decade and it showed "remarkable
consistency between independent measurements [by radiosonde] of these
upper air temperatures". In 2003 before the U.S. House Committee on
Resources he stated his data was "less than half of the warming
observed at the surface." In 2004 his published results showed a 0.08
C/decade increase. A new error in his interpretation of the data found
in 2005 has now increased his results by 60% in only a year to 0.13
C/decade but he still claims "all radiosonde comparisons have been
rerun and the agreement is still exceptionally good" [5] as was claimed
in 2001 when his results were 1/3 as high as now.
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200605190003
Fri, May 19, 2006 10:35am EST
In new global warming special, Fox News interviews scientists with
industry ties, records of misinformation ---------------
Fox News employs Executive Director of TASSC, Steve Milloy.
No reputable and law-abiding organization will have any TASSC fraudster
on their payroll, or quote them, or give them a platform. Christy's
affiliation with organizations employing TASSC fraudsters is beyond
accidental coincidence.
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http://timlambert.org/2005/07/spencer/comment-page-3/
Fri 1 Jul 2005
Significant errors found in global warming study
Posted by Tim Lambert under science
http://timlambert.org/2004/08/gwarming/
Thu 12 Aug 2004
"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do,
Sir?"
Posted by Tim Lambert under science
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FACTSHEET: The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, TASSC
--- KEY PEOPLE: S. Fred Singer, Science Advisor; Patrick J. Michaels,
Science Advisor; Steven Milloy, Director/Founder of Advancement of
Sound Science Coalition; Frederick Seitz, Science Advisor.
FACTSHEET: The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Inc., TASSC
--- KEY PEOPLE: Steven Milloy, Publisher, JunkScience.con; Bonner
Cohen, Board of Directors.
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FACTSHEET: Competitive Enterprise Institute, CEI
John Christy Contributing Writer
Steven Milloy Adjunct Analyst (TASSC)
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FACTSHEET: John Christy
ORGANIZATIONS
--- Competitive Enterprise Institute John Christy, Steven Milloy
(TASSC)
--- Cato Institute KEY PEOPLE: Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow,
Environmental Studies (TASSC); S. Fred Singer, Editorial Advisory Board
(TASSC); Steven Milloy, Adjunct Scholar (TASSC); John Christy,
Conference Speaker; Robert C. Balling Jr., Conference Speaker; Richard
Lindzen, Contributing Writer, Reason Magazine.
--- Independent Institute KEY PEOPLE: David R. Legates, former Research
Fellow; Frederick Seitz, Research Fellow (TASSC); S. Fred Singer,
Research Fellow (TASSC); John Christy, Panel on Global Warming
Graphic of key relationships with John Christy and Competitive
Enterprise Institute and TASSC Fraudsters and other key operatives.
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* --- John Christy contributed to a book by CEI-TASSC Fraudster
Patrick J. Michaels. http://snipurl.com/qtrm Google Results about 77
for "John Christy" Shattered Consensus : The True State of Global
Warming.
* Table of contents for Shattered consensus : the true state of
global warming / edited by Patrick J. Michaels.
* --- John Christy is used on the book cover and sales pitch for a
book published by Competitive Enterprise Institute, authored by Ronald
Bailey (CEI Adjunct Analyst), Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How
the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death
* --- Google has 120 links to CEI.org website using John Christy's
"erroneous data", and has not corrected them or retracted them.
http://snipurl.com/qtt0 Google Results about 120 from www.cei.org for
"John Christy" "Patrick J. Michaels" | "Competitive Enterprise
Institute".
* --- John Christy is used on the book cover and sales pitch for a
book published by Cato Institute, authored by Cato-CEI-TASSC Fraudster
Patrick J. Michaels. Meltdown : The Predictable Distortion of Global
Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.
* --- TASSC operative S. Fred Singer's SEPP website has 35 webpages
with Christy's erroneous data, which has never been corrected or
retracted. http://snipurl.com/qttt Google Results 1 - 35 from
www.sepp.org for "John Christy" SEPP.
* --- TASSC operative Frederick Seitz, and longtime partner with
Singer in SEPP, was president of the George C. Marshall Institute.
http://snipurl.com/qttx Google Results 7 from www.marshall.org for
"John Christy" Marshall Institute. Webpages propagating 'erroneous"
data from John Christy have never been corrected or retracted.
* --- TASSC operative Steve Milloy's Junkscience website has
Christy's Junk Science. http://snipurl.com/qtum Google Results 45 from
junkscience.com for "John Christy". Webpages propagating "erroneous"
junk science from John Christy have never been corrected or retracted.
--- Heartland Institute controlled website connects John Christy
to a known TASSC Organized Crime operation, APCO Associates --
http://www.climatesearch.com/newsDetail.cfm?nwsId=54 -- With TASSC
Singer, TASSC Michaels, and TASSC Seitz involvement. APCO created TASSC
as a fraud operation, and still maintains ties with the operative
"whitecoats".
* --- CEI-Registered website www.globalwarming.org has 40 webpages
with John Christy's "erroneous" data. http://snipurl.com/qtw6 Google
Results about 40 from www.globalwarming.org for GlobalWarming.org "John
Christy". Webpages propagating "erroneous" junk science from John
Christy have never been corrected or retracted.
* --- CEI-Registered website
http://www.globalwarming.org/sitemap.htm sitemap has two links that go
off-site to TASSC-Ally Fred Seitz's old lair at George C. Marshall
Institute: Brief Synopsis of the Global Warming Issue, and Guide to
Global Warming - Questions and Answers on Climate Change. The
http://www.globalwarming.org/about.htm pretends that "Consumer Alert"
still exists, but the link is a dead parked page. Further down the page
"National Consumer Coalition" link
http://www.consumeralert.org/ncc/index.htm leads to the same dead
parked page. They are not even trying to keep up appearances of all
their phoney front operations any more. They do have a link to their
roots as tobacco fraudsters from the Good Old Days, in The Smoker's
Club website, with Competitive Enterprise Institute clearly on the
bottom of the page. Who knows how many more fly-by-night websites they
have out there posing as citizen's groups and grassroots coalitions?