Big oil has a history of propaganda as well-see leaded gasoline and the decline of IQ of half of the US population.

Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrank IQ Scores of Half of Americans | Duke Today

Since they covered up the toxic effects of leaded gasoline for 70 years (!), why would you not think they are covering up global warming?

Joe

In my view, there may be global warming. It certainly seemed to have happened during the dinosaur era. At that time there were no people to blame. Today, it seems like, there is an unashamed attempt at trying to make people feel guilty in corder to control their behavior. Reminds me a bit of how some religions work.

Laws and religion are meant to keep people's behavior in check but then we have lawyers who look for the loopholes and politicians who create them for lawyers to find. Just a general statement not aimed at anyone particular. And then we had religious leaders who kept everything in dead languages and/or in books they only had access to .

May be? The data shows very clearly that there IS global warming. While the climate constantly changes, this time it is warming many times faster than in the past and the process started accelerating from the beginning of industrialisation.

Improvements in measuring temperatures (air, land and sea), including from space, have given us much better data than late last century, when it was fairly easy to deny mankind's involvement.

Accepting that the rapid warming is caused by us is hard, because it means we need to take action and be part of the solution but, if you don't do this for yourself, at least do it for your grandchildren. We caused this mess - it is up to us to tackle it.

My late husband was with the National Flood Insurance Program for 25 years covering the entire Southeastern US. The best I can tell you is (a) that’s why I don’t live on either coast; and (b) they really have no clue what a hurricane is actually going to do day to day.

Be alert. That’s about the size of it.

I understand I think what you are saying. My thoughts are that, no, we are not going to be able to influence climate change because the forces are much greater than us. Reminds me of when they exploded nuclear bombs in order to try to change volcano flows.

To think that we can, is hubris. This does not mean we can’t be better actors, only that it’s not going to make a significant difference. (And yes, I am familiar exactly, with how statistical models work.)

Typically, model forecasted storm tracks show considerable skill about 4 days out with increasing accuracy as you get closer to landfall. Occasionally, I see some remarkably accurate storm tracks 5-6 days out with the NCEP global model. Furthermore, the uncertainty in the storm tracks can be quantified. Simulations of storm intensity changes typically have less fidelity than the storm tracks. I am a retired research meteorologist and I worked at NASA and the National Weather Service where I developed research and operational computer forecast models.

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Might help a bit with climate change.

That's what i say
 

i can't get no satisfaction either

The United Nations and the majority of scientists in the WORLD believe that Global Warming is "settled Science". There are a few naysayers that repeat the doctrine put out by the gas and oil conglomerate simply because, for them, billions of dollars are at stake. They buy and control whole TV networks in the US so that they can maintain their ANTIQUATED industry.

we can talk politics now?

We always bark at the moon
 

where is k pax to explain it all ?

Kudos! That is a great article and the personal summation is right on point.

I believe that these facts basically sum up the current situation with respect to POTENTIAL hurricane strength. The Gulf temperatures CURRENTLY are at a RECORD 85 to 90 degrees which is the warmest EVER ON RECORD. Also the Atlantic close to the US coast is also the warmest on record. The size and strength of hurricanes depend on the temperature of the waters that they pass over. This summer Florida may or MAY NOT get lucky, but every year the World will get hotter (due to man's methane and CO2 production) and likely in the next 5 years - Florida will be hit with a Category 6 hurricane. I wonder how that will affect the price of coastal homes. Maybe even inland ones?

Nicely worded. Thank you OBB. I look at Erin as a "shot across the bow". It's not even September and Erin made it to a CAT5 in record time. The Atlantic continues to get warmer. The next CAT5 may not be as likely to head north/northeast.