Posted on 08/26/2011 5:21:52 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Was Hurricane Irene caused by global warming?
By: Bob King August 26, 2011 05:38 PM EDT
Hurricane Irene hadn’t even made landfall in the United States before some people figured out what to blame it on.
“Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming,” environmental activist Bill McKibben wrote Thursday night in The Daily Beast. He argued that this year’s hot Atlantic Ocean temperatures and active spree of hurricanes — coupled with droughts, floods and melting sea ice elsewhere on the globe — are “what climate change looks like in its early stages.”
Besides, “what’s a ‘tropical’ storm doing heading for the snow belt?” asked McKibben. He also said the storm represented bad timing for the Obama administration’s favorable environmental impact statement on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which environmentalists label a danger to the Earth’s climate.
But not so fast, hurricane scientists say: Not only is it impossible to tie any single hurricane to global warming, but researchers are also still fiercely debating whether the changing climate is making — or will make — tropical cyclones either stronger or more frequent.
It’s also not even clear that hurricane seasons are getting worse over time, some researchers say. After all, New York City and Long Island have been hit by nine previous hurricanes from 1858 to 1991, according to NOAA records, including the disastrous 1938 storm known as the Long Island Express. And the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history struck 111 years ago — the 1900 storm that killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.
“I think the state of the science is such that you cannot link any singular event to global warming,” said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center near Miami.
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It’s Bush’s fault!
Damn Obama! He was supposed to fix global warming. He said he’d make the ocean levels fall. This storm is his fault!
Short answer? No. It was the Cavity Creeps...
Back to the Katrina psychosis, eh? The crazy person who blamed that hurricane on Bush and his “environmental policy” is now kissing up to our enemies as Secretary of State.
You knew they’d get around to this sooner or later. If Irene hadn’t shown up so early, the lefty media would be spouting the suggestion that “the earthquake was caused by global warm...uh, climate change! Boo!”
I guess the science hasn't been done.
CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
What a load of crap.
Right around 2005 we had a flurry of hurricanes.
The leftists sobbed that this was global warming and Bush’s fault.
Then for the next several years there were almost no hurricanes. The leftists were silent.
Now we have one hurricane and its crying time again.
One hundred percent pure crap!
Screw the commies!
How many hurricanes have there been in the last 3 years? Sure looks like all of our efforts to reduce hurricanes have succeeded.
Problem is, there are actually people who will believe this con’s bilge.
EVERYBODY knows it's fracking in Pennsyvaia that caused it ... and EVERYTHING else.
Hangnail, gout, sugar in your gas tank, illegal aliens .... all caused by fracking.
Bill McKibben is a moron. Where did the “global warming” come from on September 3, 1821 when a big one rolled up the coast and smashed NYC. Just say “NO” to drugs!
Global warming is a lie.
The other day I heard one of them suggest that Fracking caused the earthquake.
CERN: ‘Climate models will need to be substantially revised’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
Face palm GIF is perfect.
Bill McKibben is a classic example of Maslow’s aphorism that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He’s made a living for years preaching apocalyptic global warming idiocy. So, of COURSE Irene is caused by global warming in his worldview. What else could it be?
Don’t be silly. Of course not.
It was caused by Bush, Rove and Cheney and their hurricane machine. Same one that caused Katrina.
So typical . Every time there is a large weather event , these dopes come out like maggots on dead meat. Pathetic.
Wouldn't that make Obama in control of the secret government hurricaine making machines?
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