Katrina real name
Portu Cale MK3
08-09-2005, 20:16
THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.
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When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.
When 124-mile-an-hour winds shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and the United Kingdom, the driver was global warming.
When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the Missouri River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was global warming.
In July, when the worst drought on record triggered wildfires in Spain and Portugal and left water levels in France at their lowest in 30 years, the explanation was global warming.
When a lethal heat wave in Arizona kept temperatures above 110 degrees and killed more than 20 people in one week, the culprit was global warming.
And when the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai) received 37 inches of rain in one day -- killing 1,000 people and disrupting the lives of 20 million others -- the villain was global warming.
From here (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/30/katrinas_real_name/)
Refused Party Program
08-09-2005, 20:17
THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.
Dude, that was smooth.
You do realize that over there are THOUSANDS of Scientists and Researchers (along the lines of 10,000 I believe) that say MAN MADE global warming is purely fictional.
Refused Party Program
08-09-2005, 23:14
You do realize that over there are THOUSANDS of Scientists and Researchers (along the lines of 10,000 I believe) that say MAN MADE global warming is purely fictional.
Don't worry, we are doing our best to ignore those nutjobs.
Blackfoot Barrens
08-09-2005, 23:25
Globing warming is a complex, hard to measure and bloody confusing issue. All this year's funky weather proves is that it's been a funky year for weather. They happen. Automatically pinning it on global warming without any kind of proof or data is bad science.
It's fun reading some of the articles blaming Katrina on global warming. They include quotes from scientists to make them seem factual, but the scientists never tie themselves down to anything. They get quotes like, "It's possible that Katrina may be part of a trend showing an increase in extereme weather that may or may not be related to global warming. Perhaps." Most scientists are far too clever and too careful to blame it all on something like that at this stage.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
08-09-2005, 23:47
I like this global warming stuff, becuase you can apparently blame anything on it. Hey, wait, I just found this on the Intarweb (www.google.com):
Researcher hasn't gotten a date in 12 years, blames global warming
Anytown, USA
Brian B. O'Brian hasn't been able to get a date in 148 months, and has recently discovered that Global Warming is causing this. At first, other things may come to mind, such as the fact that O'Brian hasn't taken a bath since the Reagan administration and that he can't go 22 consecutive minutes without breaking into tears as a result of the George Bush (admitted evil nazi) withdrawing from the Kyoto Accord, but O'Brian insists that it is all due to "Global Warming."
"At first I thought that girls were fleeing from my presence like people fleeing from something really horrible was due to George W. Bush threatening to kill/rape/severely tickel them should they enjoy themselves around me. Now I've realised that, in fact, it was due George W. Bush's more insidious plan to personally eat the Ozone layer, one delicious bite at a time."
He points out that as things get warmer, the demand for sunblock goes up, and that causes women, who are sensitivve about their skin, to all run inside and apply a neew layer when ever he is around.
At this point O'Brian starts screaming and jumps through an open window, he was later found naked and in a tree watching a funeral that just happened to be happening at that very moment.
O'Brian is a well known scientist who has discovered several other things that were caused by Global Warming, such as:
One time when he was little, he got stung by a bee and his left arm swelled to twice its regular size. The Bee stung him because it was warmer by .12 degrees Farenheit that summer than it had been two weeks ago
Ice cream is definitely more melty now, and it also has more stupid movie related tie-ins
The decline in the quality of James Bond movies
-Associated Scientific Wackjobs Pressed to Find A Good Use of Time