Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal 448
MatthewVD writes "The National Hurricane Center reported today that the combined energy and duration of all the storms in the Atlantic basin hurricane season was 30 percent above the average from 1981 to 2010. At Weather Underground, Dr. Jeff Masters blogs that record low levels of arctic ice could have caused a 'blocking ridge' over Greenland that pushed Hurricane Sandy west. Meanwhile, Bloomberg BusinessWeek says, 'it's global warming, stupid.'"
Global warming stories (Score:5, Funny)
Sure do cause heated debate on Slashdot.
Obviously, what we need (Score:2, Funny)
... or even more onerous laws and regulations.
Large Sodas = Root of All Evil (Score:4, Funny)
>> Bloomberg BusinessWeek says
This is the guy who just banned large sodas, right? Go on...
Re:Global Warming Hurricanes! (In 1978....) (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot: Where tyrrany, repression and genocide are cool as long as the perpertrators suck up to Assange in public.
Slashdot: where apologist strawmen and know-more-than-the-experts armchair quarterbacks abound.
Re:30% stronger... (Score:1, Funny)
citation needed.
Really.
Unless you're a YEC where 120 million years ago was actually 6000 years ago with some tricks to make it look older put there by Satan, your fix there is bollocks.
Climate Change: dramatically increasing the amount of "Whooooosh!" over the past 15 years.
Re:Sure it is (Score:4, Funny)
Is this the largest hurricane ever recorded? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_records [wikipedia.org]
Large is good, the energy is spread out over a greater area. Did you notice (a lot) more people die with the smaller ones?
You want big, they're weaker Sandy 1 & 2. Katrina was a 5 and smaller and moved more quickly. It had way more energy. Sandy just had the bad taste to hit the NYSE, but really it was fairly unremarkable and wouldn't have raised so much as an eyebrow if it hadn't hit NYC.
On the bright side it did destroy area and buildings Jersey Shore used for that horrible show which is to date the best argument for the existence of God.