(c) 2008, wunderground.com, accessed 19 July 2008.
According to the National Weather Service (6:15 PM EDT, 19 July 2008)
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico...What?! A hurricane that far north? And that's not all. According to Reuters, accessed 6:23 PM 19 July 2008:The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Bertha...located about 450 miles east-southeast of Cape Race
Newfoundland.
MIAMI, July 18 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened again into a hurricane on Friday as it accelerated toward the northeast over the open Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.I am not a meteorologist, but I am a bit of a weather fanatic (meaning I'm very interested in it). It's this kind of extreme, "longest-lived Atlantic storms on record," that I will post as I see them. Briefly noted, there has been a back and forth about whether global warming will make hurricanes more fierce. A current research report just released goes back to the notion that hurricanes will be more fierce:
The top sustained winds of the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season had increased to 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour), just over the threshold at which tropical storms are upgraded, the Miami-based center said at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT).
Bertha, an unusually resilient storm that appears likely to enter the history books as one of the longest-lived Atlantic storms on record [emphasis added], was no threat to land.
The nation can adapt to the changes that will result, the EPA report says, but it will have to weather heat waves and downpours, strengthened hurricanes, heat waves, air pollution and droughts. Source: http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Environmental_Protection_Agency_Warns_Of_Climate_Change_Toll_On_Health_20562.html, accessed 19 July 2008.The report was issued on July 17 and reportedly was deliberately held back when it was ready to be presented in April. The document has extreme predictions about the effects of Global Warming, and this is an agency run by the Bush Administration (which probably explains the delay, but makes the dire predictions all the more striking).
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The site was accessed 17 July 2008 and included in the "About" section is this paragraph:
The problem is not all blogs are so crystal clear. In creating a taxonomy of blogs related to global warming, finding a prominent and truthful "About Us" would seem to be a good thing. Let's see, how can we test this theory. Without knowing, I would assume the political movement, GreenPeace, probably is on the side of those who want to change, for example, the amount of CO2 artificially put into the atmosphere by human activities including all fossil fuel powered motors (lawn mowers, for example, add their share of pollutants in the air). OK, let's see if GreenPeace has a blog on global warming or a position statement from their web site.
Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate change will not save us. As a matter of survival, we must decrease our dependence on the industries and institutions that are destroying the planet and work toward community autonomy and sustainable living.
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The rains that fell during the weekend of June 7-8 were fueled in part by moisture from Tropical Storm Alma/Arthur, which affected Central America May 29 - June 2. The Cedar River is expected to crest today at 31.8 feet, which is an amazing 19.8 feet above the flood stage of 12 feet. During the historic 1993 flood, the worst in recent history, the river hit only 19.27 feet, 7 feet above flood stage. Nine rivers in Iowa are at all-time record flood levels, and Iowa Governor Chet Culver has declared 83 of the state's 99 counties state disaster areas. Additional heavy rainfall is not expected over the Cedar River watershed over the next two days, so today should mark the peak of this year's historic flooding. SOURCE: JeffMasters, 1:07 PM EDT on June 13, 2008 at http://wunderground.com.
Source: http://www.achooallergy.com/images/environment-global-warming.jpg accessed 8 June 2008.
Source: United States Centers for Disease Control from http://dynamicmt.com/asthma%20growth.jpg accessed 8 June 2008.
Skeptics, do you really want to be on the side of those who don't give a damn about asthma? Skeptics with asthma, would you wish your asthma on anyone else?
Source: wunderground.com
"We've already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," according to James Hansen, 67, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. "But there are ways to solve the problem" of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which Hansen said has reached the "tipping point" of 385 parts per million.
