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Still Trying To Make The Connection

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, September 01, 2008 1:42:58 PM
   The media will never give up on the idea of global warming making hurricanes more powerful.
 
Here is an AP headline from the San Francisco Chronicle.
 

Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

Sunday, August 31, 2008
 
   Headlines are important, most people don't read the story. So if all you read was this headline, you would make "the connection", right?
 But of course they save themselves from the misleading headline with the first paragraph in the article:
 
   Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate.
 
   Lets move the words around in that sentence...
"The specific connection between global warming and hurricanes remains an issue of debate, but some top scientists say it probably made Gustav stronger and wetter."
   Same words, but new meaning. This new sentence highlights the debate, not global warming. The next question is, how would we know if this hurricane was not supposed to be as wet and strong as it is? (forget the fact that it was downgraded to a category 2 instead of all the hype about its eventual category 5 status and its direct path to downtown New Orleans.)
 
 
 
   
 
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Hurricane Gustav Making Big News

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, September 01, 2008 12:48:01 PM
   It seems the media is doing all it can to make Gustav into Katrina, even when it is clearly not. Take a look at these headlines:
 
From Times Online
September 1, 2008

Hurricane Gustav begins to batter New Orleans

Check out this line in the article:
 
   The eye of the powerful Category 3 storm is due to make landfall west of the city by 1800 BST tonight, according to the National Hurricane Center. It downgraded Gustav from a Category 3 to a Category 2 storm, but disaster experts warned that its destructive potential was still enormous.
 
   So, is it a category 2 or 3?
 
Instead, here is what is really happening.
 
A police car travels down Canal Street in New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall. (AFP)

Gustav makes landfall

The eye of the hurricane hits the nearly deserted coast west of New Orleans.

   Nearly deserted...are you scared yet? Obviously, New Orleans is getting hit, but I say report the facts, not the extrta hype.

 

 

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Blogging Basics

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, September 01, 2008 11:58:58 AM
   Sometimes things don't work the way you would like them too. Simply trying to get my internet connection to work properly has been an effort in frustration. Who would have thought that the satelite reciever we have on our house is plugged into a wall outlet that decided to die.
 
   Anyway, I will continue to blog even when things don't work right!
 
I will start with this photo..
 
Martians
 
   The martians have decided they don't want us CO2 creating, war mongering, elitists humans on their planet. Here are some interesting weather facts about Mars.
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