The experts can't explain what is happening currently but we are expected to believe that they can see years down the road all of the catastrophes which will be wrought by global warming. Puhleeaase!

No hurricanes by September 7? It must be caused by global warming!

I used to get all the weather info I needed from two old, now resting, farmers. They didn't have charts and graphs and certainly, no Doppler radar. They just looked skyward and observed the clouds, they'd keep tabs on the wooley worms and note the behavior of other insects, birds, animals and the fish in the ponds. It was quite uncanny, they were a heck of a lot more accurate than the "meteorologists" on TV.

(hey, maybe that's the problem, they should be studying meteors instead?)

I just realized something. If Africa gets slave reparations, then those of us who lived through major hurricanes that started in Africa should get hurricane reparations. Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew came from storm cells out of Africa. I'll take gold or diamonds please.

These guys aren't neccessarily the kool-aid drinkers that advocate the theories of man-made global warming. Quite the opposite, generally.

"...The experts can't explain what is happening currently but we are expected to believe that they can see years down the road all of the catastrophes which will be wrought by global warming. Puhleeaase!..."

If I were a leftist prophet of doom I would type out every prediction I could think of... more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes, earlier hurricanes, later hurricanes, etc., etc.

I'd enclose them, separately, in envelopes, signing each across the sealed flap, send them certified mail to myself and put them in a safety deposit box as soon as they arrived. (A small mark or blemish on each envelope would allow me to cross reference to a master list recording which predictions are in which envelopes.)

Then I'd make a point of showing my colleagues how brilliant I was by pulling as many 'accurate' predictions from that box as the laws of chance allowed in any given year.

It would take a few seasons, but the word would spread.

Soon the media would embrace me as a weather-prophet, maybe even a weather-demigod...

I'd write a book...

Then, when its sales tapered off, I'd write a second book telling all how I bamboozled them, but how crucial it was -for the children- to fight the good global warming fight.

You go to more extreme measures than necessary. Paul Erlich does it much simpler. He makes catastrophic predictions. Then when they prove wrong, he diverts attention by making different catastrophic predictions. In the media's eyes, he's still a genius, and much sought after on the lecture circuit.

Evidence is only necessary when you challenge the leftist position. None is needed when you support it.

The fact that it ISN'T global warming is why the experts aren't speculating. This has been a fairly cool and wet summer throughout the US.

I'm wondering if the hotter El Nino cycle is totally ended and we're entering a cooler cycle. (I know nothing of weather, other than what I get from the tube, so if this is altogether off the mark, feel free to blast away.)

The scientists 20 years ago calling for a new ice age were also baffled by cyclical data.

I'm wondering at the impact of a cooler, wetter cycle in one country affecting weather elsewhere...such as in the region where hurricanes develop.

I was looking forward to the storms. I'm dying to see a newsperson broadcasting from the oceanfront, screaming, "It's wet and windy out here" /sarcasm

The florida weatherpeeps are SO VERY DEPRESSED over the lack of hurricanes. The get a special twitter scaring the blue haired retirees out of their rockers.

Experts baffled? The headline should be reading "The sky is not falling, Chicken Little baffled". Experts, hah! My personal favorite is when the global warming "experts" tell us that the earth getting hotter is causing winters to be more severe and last longer with cold fronts pushing farther south for longer periods of time every year.

No hurricanes by September 7? It must be caused by global warming!

Look for the good in everything and don't try to change it.

Post #4 ||| I'll take gold or diamonds please.

I'll take a Lexus and 40 acres, like the Lady on Chicago TV.

Ask Gary Condit.

Maybe the next round of job layoffs will hit the Weather Channel--they've got nothing to report.

No hurricanes?

I think God didn't want to disturb the shark's eating...

Tuor

PS Yes, this was a joke.

Actually, if global warming prophets are to beieved, there would be more hurricanes. Hmmm....

Uh, maybe it is because God didn't send any yet. Seriously.

I remember reading an article on FR a couple months ago about some sort of new spray that could possibly break up hurricanes before they formed.

Maybe we need some better experts.