quote:Originally posted by TSN: I think you missed the point. The Greek-letter names can't be replaced. If someday Hurricane Theta wipes Miami off the map, or something, how can they retire the name? What will come between Hurricanes Eta and Iota in the future?
And that's why I said the NHC ought to reconsider using names starting with the letter Q, U, X, Y, or Z like whatever authority in charge of the North Pacific basin did when they added X, Y, and Z back to their line-up.
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quote:Originally posted by Topher: The axial tilt changed not. Wobbled, the Earth did.
What I meant. That was. For my mistake. Please forgive. And sound alot like Grover on Sesame Street I do. Hmmm...
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You of all people should recognize a Yoda-ism.
Global warming this, global warming that, blah blah blah. Did y'all know that during the previous interglacial the average global temperature was higher than it is now? Something to think about.
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Much too much of global warming theory comes from computer models. In my experience, computer models crap out when trying to predict air flow over a wing, let alone trying to predict the behavior of a planet's atmosphere. Additionally, the changes in temperature that are supposedly due to global warming are so ridiculously small compared to the temperature fluctuations that nature itself produces over time that it's impossible to determine with any certainty how much, if any, of the variation is caused by humanity.
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Mabye it's a desperate scam by the science community to, you know, stop the industrilized nations from destroying the planet.
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A friendly moderator note: I consulted the oracle and she told me a thread arguing about the existence of climate change would rapidly become heated (the oracle attends an open mike night every other week, and frankly it's embarrassing for all concerned) and therefore be better suited to the Flameboard. So perhaps a spinoff?
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Like all those "Interrogation of..." threads, this hurricane season is taking forever to die.
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quote:Originally posted by Topher: You of all people should recognize a Yoda-ism.
I know it's a Yoda-ism, i was referring to the Star Wars Sunscreen song.
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You took twenty-nine days to create a comeback, and that is the best you could do?
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wow, 29 days, meh, i didn't bother looking at this thread since then.
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Actually I though the US govenment was now admitting that global warming was happening. Not that they are commting to any reductions or timescales on anything...
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Zeta is spinning peacefully away from land as we speak.
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