I knew it was going to be said sooner than later. If he would stop spending money and bring our troops home, California could be saved! \ It's not to late!!!!!
hey, remember when i started this thread? and then we got to hurricane epsilon (admittedly, nothing past wilma was any threat to land, but still, EPSILON?!?), and now lots of fires across texas...
but i'm sure the environment's just hunky-dory and the past 5-10 years have just been one big ol' coincidence.
When it comes to earthquake, it's pure hazard. There is more deaths than ever, because the concentration of people living in this aeras is higher.
Now the climate has changed. There is more hurricanes in the south of USA now, than in 1930. In 1930 there was an average number of 3 hurricanes per year, now it's seven. Hurricanes are more powerful and more common right now.
So climate related catastrophes are way up, but earthquake catastrophes are not.
When it comes to earthquake, it's pure hazard. There is more deaths than ever, because the concentration of people living in this aeras is higher.
Now the climate has changed. There is more hurricanes in the south of USA now, than in 1930. In 1930 there was an average number of 3 hurricanes per year, now it's seven. Hurricanes are more powerful and more common right now.
So climate related catastrophes are way up, but earthquake catastrophes are not.
did i mention we had a richter level 3 earthquake in BATON ROUGE last week? the ground here is so soft, though, hardly anyone felt it, but the seismic meters picked it up.
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
did i mention we had a richter level 3 earthquake in BATON ROUGE last week? the ground here is so soft, though, hardly anyone felt it, but the seismic meters picked it up.
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
I don't know what you mean, but there is always a small amount of sismic activity everywhere. An sismic activity noticed by no one, except instruments do not fit with the word earthquake.
As Groverat implied, it's not so much 'more disasters' but 'more reporting of pretty much the same number of disasters'... and then combine that with a population increase in areas potentially at risk from the effects of severe weather (in major river flood plains, hurricane affected coastlines, fire prone regions etc.), and disasters will assume not only a greater frequency but also a greater intensity.
Re. global warming and tropical weather... who knows for sure to what extent human activity is responsible for greater frequency and/or greater intensity of tropical systems? What is the ratio of human activity to natural cycles re. global warming? We don't know. Reliable meteorological records go back 200 years at the most, which is not long enough to determine the contribution of natural climatic cycles... some cycles have periods of far longer than 200 years so interpretation is at best speculative. We've just had two severe tropical seasons, so of course we're asking the questions, especially considering the unprecedented scenario of no less than three 175mph category 5 storms with central pressures of 900hPa (and below), all forming within a few weeks of each other, and causing such enormous loss of life and property damage.
Combining last year's fearsome foursome and this year's terrible trio and Floridians are probably wondering "wtf did we do to deserve this?"
24 hour news is a blessing and a curse. You hear about stuff that wouldn't have been on the nightly news or in your morning paper, but there's also a lot of crap.
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
Dats why we bury our dead above de ground...don't want dem earthquakes to swallow em up!
Back on subject..its seems way hotter than normal this time of year in Louisiana than previous years. But I am sure someone will post a graph that proves me wrong . Still warm though.
I remember that the december after Hugo in SC, the lake froze in my neighborhood and I went sledding on the streets. Hurricanes often disrupt normal weather conditions locally for a long time... So it wouldn't surprise me if it was hotter than normal in LA...
Dats why we bury our dead above de ground...don't want dem earthquakes to swallow em up!
Back on subject..its seems way hotter than normal this time of year in Louisiana than previous years. But I am sure someone will post a graph that proves me wrong . Still warm though.
i agree... i've only felt barely two weeks of what i would call "cold" weather (and i have lived in canada AND florida for much of my life, so i have a sense of scale here). i mean, louisiana's tropical and all, but it still gets colder than this for longer.
Can you believe this? There's yet another tropical storm out there... Zeta. Named storm #27! The tropical season (by rights) should have ended by the end of November..and now we're almost into January and a good way into the Greek alphabet. I guess the only consolations are that Zeta is of no danger to any land area, and will definitely be the last storm of the 2005 season. (!)
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Originally posted by Aquatic
I blame Bush.
I knew it was going to be said sooner than later. If he would stop spending money and bring our troops home, California could be saved!
but i'm sure the environment's just hunky-dory and the past 5-10 years have just been one big ol' coincidence.
Now the climate has changed. There is more hurricanes in the south of USA now, than in 1930. In 1930 there was an average number of 3 hurricanes per year, now it's seven. Hurricanes are more powerful and more common right now.
So climate related catastrophes are way up, but earthquake catastrophes are not.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
When it comes to earthquake, it's pure hazard. There is more deaths than ever, because the concentration of people living in this aeras is higher.
Now the climate has changed. There is more hurricanes in the south of USA now, than in 1930. In 1930 there was an average number of 3 hurricanes per year, now it's seven. Hurricanes are more powerful and more common right now.
So climate related catastrophes are way up, but earthquake catastrophes are not.
did i mention we had a richter level 3 earthquake in BATON ROUGE last week? the ground here is so soft, though, hardly anyone felt it, but the seismic meters picked it up.
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
Originally posted by rok
did i mention we had a richter level 3 earthquake in BATON ROUGE last week? the ground here is so soft, though, hardly anyone felt it, but the seismic meters picked it up.
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
I don't know what you mean, but there is always a small amount of sismic activity everywhere. An sismic activity noticed by no one, except instruments do not fit with the word earthquake.
Re. global warming and tropical weather... who knows for sure to what extent human activity is responsible for greater frequency and/or greater intensity of tropical systems? What is the ratio of human activity to natural cycles re. global warming? We don't know. Reliable meteorological records go back 200 years at the most, which is not long enough to determine the contribution of natural climatic cycles... some cycles have periods of far longer than 200 years so interpretation is at best speculative. We've just had two severe tropical seasons, so of course we're asking the questions, especially considering the unprecedented scenario of no less than three 175mph category 5 storms with central pressures of 900hPa (and below), all forming within a few weeks of each other, and causing such enormous loss of life and property damage.
Combining last year's fearsome foursome and this year's terrible trio and Floridians are probably wondering "wtf did we do to deserve this?"
Now why would that be........?
Originally posted by rok
zen question: if an earthquake occurs under louisiana, but no one feels it, did it ever really exist?
Dats why we bury our dead above de ground...don't want dem earthquakes to swallow em up!
Back on subject..its seems way hotter than normal this time of year in Louisiana than previous years. But I am sure someone will post a graph that proves me wrong
Originally posted by trailmaster308
Dats why we bury our dead above de ground...don't want dem earthquakes to swallow em up!
Back on subject..its seems way hotter than normal this time of year in Louisiana than previous years. But I am sure someone will post a graph that proves me wrong
i agree... i've only felt barely two weeks of what i would call "cold" weather (and i have lived in canada AND florida for much of my life, so i have a sense of scale here). i mean, louisiana's tropical and all, but it still gets colder than this for longer.
This has been an extremely mild winter here.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...l/310243.shtml
That discovery channel thing was awesome.
I just watched this. Awesome indeed. Mexico closed the border on us.
The Day After Tomorrow was no consolation either. Ominous warnings.