Hurricane Irma

[dragoneggs]

People: Climate change is fake

Nature: Hold my beer...

Ha ha... honestly I did laugh but until someone can explain the last couple ice ages and warm ups long before people thought we were more powerful than nature, I will be a skeptic.

 

[CalG]

Dang cool interactive map... drag it around to see Irma and what is coming next or anywhere else in the world! Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

It's my go to for reality, but there are some data upload delays to be expected. Hmm Freezing cold at the Sino -Soviet border the other day, un seasonable.

Mostly I use it to bolster my confidence that the world is at best an unstable system. Cold at the poles, but only a few degrees latitude distant, Australia is a hot box.

Go figure!

 

[California]

CNN report: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN

"On Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, Kennedy Banda said fierce winds blew out the windows of his home. He and his family were taking shelter in a bathroom; he said he was bracing his body against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. "Everything is blown out," he told CNN by phone near Road Town. "Everything is gone."

Oh man. I visited there in 1974. Tortola is really unusual. Most of the locals live modestly, many of the houses are simple, clean, while a small percentage represent wealth. "Everything is gone" I would interpret literally.

Meanwhile Tortola is a hub for all kinds of anonymous corporations, brokers, 'Pentagon Papers' types of offshore law firms that conceal huge, unimaginable, world-class anonymous fortunes. I saw one British lawmaker just now called for finally shedding some light on these lawyer's files and the shadow corporations as a reciprocal gesture for the assistance GB is sending. (Tortola is a British Overseas Territory). If any of that economic activity became subject to local tax, the 25 thousand or so citizens could have their homes replaced immediately.

 

[CalG]

Oh man. I visited there in 1974. Tortola is really unusual. Most of the locals live modestly, many of the houses are simple, clean, while a small percentage represent wealth. "Everything is gone" I would interpret literally.

Meanwhile Tortola is a hub for all kinds of anonymous corporations, brokers, 'Pentagon Papers' types of offshore law firms that conceal huge, unimaginable, world-class anonymous fortunes. I saw one British lawmaker just now called for finally shedding some light on these lawyer's files and the shadow corporations as a reciprocal gesture for the assistance GB is sending. (Tortola is a British Overseas Territory). If any of that economic activity became subject to local tax, the 25 thousand or so citizens could have their homes replaced immediately.

That's not funny!

 

[California]

And a tip for anyone in Irma's path: Roofs get blown off when there is a severe instantaneous drop in atmospheric pressure. The house simply explodes. Open the windows!

I went through a minor hurricane in Maracaibo where it occurred to me to throw open all the shutters when my ears popped. I'm sure that saved the simple corrugated iron roof. A minute later a sickening drop in air pressure, things got intense and some neighbors roofs went flying away. A house sealed up to modern energy conservation standards wouldn't stand a chance against a pressure drop like that.

 

[teg]

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

cool site!!! :thumbsup:

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[teg]

Ha ha... honestly I did laugh but until someone can explain the last couple ice ages and warm ups long before people thought we were more powerful than nature, I will be a skeptic.

If you are a skeptic, Do a test, go set a gallon of gas on fire... now multiply that by what we use worldwide every single day... If you don't think man can screw up the world... your dead wrong. It's getting hotter in our little fish bowl. :2cents:

 

[CalG]

If you are a skeptic, Do a test, go set a gallon of gas on fire... now multiply that by what we use worldwide every single day... If you don't think man can screw up the world... your dead wrong. It's getting hotter in our little fish bowl. :2cents:

And you are sure that is bad? How?

It's been "hotter" in the past.

 

[/pine]

...And a tip for anyone in Irma's path: Roofs get blown off when there is a severe instantaneous drop in atmospheric pressure. The house simply explodes. Open the windows!

This is an old myth and very bad advice...!

 

[vvanders]

Ha ha... honestly I did laugh but until someone can explain the last couple ice ages and warm ups long before people thought we were more powerful than nature, I will be a skeptic.

It's not just the peaks and lows, higher temperature means higher humidity which means that storms which may have been less intense are now much more severe(see Harvey, Irma and Jose).

There's also the Web Bulb Effect( Warming to boost deadly humidity levels across South Asia - BBC News ) which has pushed India into ranges where the humidity + heat is so high that you cannot cool off and will die if you spend more than a few hours outside.

I don't know about you but I'm not in favor of playing chicken with the next Ice Age/Heat Wave. Let's say that we're wrong, and this is just some natural cycle, worst case we've built much stronger infrastructure and generated a bunch of new technology(which always ends up cross-pollinating to other industries). Is that really so bad?