With the natural disasters of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, we have once again seen the unlimited capacity of politicians and their funding-hungry toadies (climate scientists), and of mainstream media and business persons……to use the misfortunes of others to promote political agendas, and to sell advertising space and product.
There’s no reason for me to cite examples. They’re everywhere. Be my guest and add some to the comments.
Still on holiday.
Ciao!
Bob
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I see the pope has gone on the blame game again
Pope Francis is a true socialist through and through. You should not expect any different behavior.
God is telling the Marxist goon to STFU by crashing the popemobile into his ignorant Commie noggin. Hope it knocks some sense into the fat-mouthed fool.
IMO Trump did the right thing in overturning Obama’s unconstitutional DACA EO. Presidents are supposed to enforce laws, not write them. Congress will probably enact something similar to DACA. Under the Constitution, that’s its role, not the executive branch.
Also watch for the talking heads on TV to use the term “Florida dodged a bullet with Irma,” or similar construct.
The counter is that “No, the bullet called Irma made landfall on a FL city (Naples) and then drove straight-up the center of the state to Lake City.”
That the damage and severity of winds and water were far below expectations means the human forecasts and expectations were grossly off. The state didn’t dodge anything with Irma.
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/09/08/publix-supermarket-selling-hurricane-irma-themed-cakes-and-twitter-responds.html
It isn’t Mann & Co. politicizing climate change, it’s all those damn climate change deniers! http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-looming-disasters-20170910-story.html
Repent and be saved! Or else risk going to hell! http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/852663/Pope-Francis-Hurricane-Irma-climate-change-deniers-latest-news
People who wouldn’t believe the Pope on anything he said about their immortal souls somehow find him infallible when discussion immigration or climate change.
When people say stuff like, “Climate change made this hurricane/tornado/flood/event more likely”, I rarely if ever get any sense of HOW MUCH more likely it would be. I try to read the abstracts and the papers if they are not paywalled, but does anyone have a ballpark for this? Personally I think it’s in the small single digits but I wanted to see what other people’s impressions are.
Bob,
According to Brenden Moses, a researcher at the National Hurricane Center, of all Category 5 landfalls on record in the Atlantic since 1851, one-quarter have occurred this season. So where is your scientific argument about why this happened? Oh that’s right, you’re not a scientist so you can’t answer that.
Dennis this is a stupid answer. We have good data on all hurricanes prior to satellites, NOT.
And scientist isn’t a title, it’s a vocation.
Dennis this is a stupid answer. We have good data on all hurricanes prior to satellites, NOT.
And scientist isn’t a title, it’s a vocation.
Bob has no real title, at least he has never provided even a general summary of what his working background is. Why is he not proud to display his credentials or who he worked for? He only had a pseudo-science blog site that he uses to sell his wares to all of his gullible followers, asks them for donations and pushes the sales of his books that are not based on any real science. So yes, I have every right to question his credibility on the subject he tries to proclaim he is some sort of expert on.