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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Skul on November 01, 2012, 04:03:46 PM
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Primitives go haywire trying to explain why a minor hurricane (barely) is the biggest major catastrophe this country ever faced.
I don't meen to sound as if I'm deminishing the hardships the citizens are going through, only the primitives reaction.
I've been through three of the ones the DUmmie listed, so I have a good idea.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021685274
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 12:36 PM
berni_mccoy (17,337 posts)
We. Were. Warned.
In 2005, Al Gore made "An Inconvenient Truth".
The movie, based on his work of many years prior, made its National Debut.
Here are some key quotes:
"Now I’m going to show you, recently released, the actual ocean temperature. Of course when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms. We have seen in the last couple of years, a lot of big hurricanes. Hurricanes Jean, Francis and Ivan were among them. In the same year we had that string of big hurricanes; we also set an all time record for tornadoes in the United States."
Story from Today:
"Real Cost of Storms"
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9238/costlystorms.png Take a look at this one.
*photos of democratic doomsayers and other Gorebull worming hysreia.
Several comments from easily dupped chicken-littles, follow.
Then, guess who shows up? Not gNads, the other DUmbass.
6. That list of costliest Atlantic Hurricanes is a bit outdated
And not just because Sandy isn't on there but it also doesn't have IRene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes
Billions Name Year
$108.0 Hurricane Katrina 2005
$55.0†Hurricane Sandy 2012
$37.6 Hurricane Ike 2008
$29.2 Hurricane Wilma 2005
$26.5 Hurricane Andrew 1992
$18.6 Hurricane Charley 2004
$18.1 Hurricane Ivan 2004
$16.6 Hurricane Irene 2011
$15.2 Hurricane Agnes 1972
$14.1 Hurricane Hugo 1989
Please go the link s/h/it provides.
Notice the numbers are cherry picked.
Scroll down a little further, and you find a little more honest listing.
Without cherry picking, here is what she didn't tell anyone. Same link ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes
example, the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane is estimated to about $50 billion in costs if it would hit Georgia today.[40]
Name Year Cost at the time
(in billion USD) Inflation adjusted cost[41]
(in billion 2004 USD) Cost adjusted for wealth normalization[39]
(in billion 2005 USD)
Great Miami Hurricane 1926 0.1 2.58 157.0
Hurricane Katrina[1] 2005 108.0 108.0 108.0
Galveston Hurricane 1900 0.02 0.52 99.4
Galveston Hurricane 1915 0.05 0.92 68.0
Hurricane Andrew[2] 1992 11.5 44.9 55.8
New England Hurricane 1938 0.31 6.2 39.2
Pinar del RÃo Hurricane 1944 0.1 5.5 38.7
Okeechobee Hurricane 1928 0.1 1.4 33.6
Hurricane Donna 1960 0.9 3.1 26.8
Hurricane Camille 1969 1.42 9.1 21.2
Hurricane Wilma 2005 20.6 20.6 20.6
Hurricane Betsy 1965 1.42 11.1 17.9
Hurricane Diane 1955 0.83 7.2 17.2
Hurricane Agnes 1972 2.1 11.6 17.2
Hurricane Hazel 1954 0.38 3.0 16.5
Hurricane Charley 2004 15.0 15.0 16.3
Hurricane Carol 1954 0.46 3.95 16.1
Hurricane Ivan 2004 14.2 14.2 15.5
Hurricane Hugo 1989 7.0 12.6 15.3
South Florida Hurricane 1949 0.05 2.7 14.7
Hurricane Carla 1961 0.33 2.5 14.2
Fort Lauderdale Hurricane 1947 0.11 0.9 13.7
Great Atlantic Hurricane 1944 0.1 5.4 13.2
Florida Keys Hurricane 1919 0.02 0.2 13.2
Southeast Florida Hurricane 1945 0.05 0.6 12.3
Hurricane Frederic 1979 2.3 6.5 10.3
Hurricane Rita 2005 10.0 9.4 10.0
Hurricane Frances 2004 8.9 8.9 9.7
Chesapeake Potomac Hurricane 1933 0.03 0.4 8.2
Hurricane Dora 1964 0.28 1.9 7.7
Hurricane Georges 1998 5.9 7.3 7.6
Hurricane Jeanne 2004 6.9 6.9 7.5
Hurricane Alicia 1983 2.0 4.38 7.5
Hurricane Floyd 1999 4.5 5.76 6.7
Tropical Storm Allison 2001 5.0 6.0 6.6
Vagabond Hurricane 1903 0.008 0.18 6.5
Yankee Hurricane 1935 0.005 0.08 6.4
Hurricane Opal 1995 3.0 4.32 6.1
Galveston Hurricane 1932 0.007 0.1 5.9
Mobile Hurricane 1916 0.0015 0.05 5.8
Hurricane Fran 1996 3.2 4.53 5.8
Hurricane Celia 1970 0.45 2.76 5.6
Hurricane Cleo 1964 0.2 1.4 5.2
Hurricane King 1950 0.03 0.26 4.4
Hurricane Beulah 1967 0.15 1.1 4.0
Hurricane Isabel 2003 3.37 3.64 4.0
Hurricane Juan 1985 1.5 3.1 3.9
Hurricane Audrey 1957 0.147 1.0 3.8
Hurricane Ione 1955 0.088 0.7 3.7
Nassau Hurricane 1926 0.008 0.09 3.7
Anyway, they ended up in a slapfest, arguing about why such-and-such should have been included or omitted.
More treehugging and pearlclutching goes on.
Response to berni_mccoy (Original post)
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 03:02 PM
grahamhgreen (8,395 posts)
31. Time for a windfall profit tax on big oil to pay for their messes.
Another one??
Idiots are starting to PMO, so I quit now.
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The press is overdoing the Obama fellatio to the point that it is becoming comically counterproductive.
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The press is overdoing the Obama fellatio to the point that it is becoming comically counterproductive.
Hopefully, it's swaying an undecided or thirty to RSquared.