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Re: [OM] [Way OT] And the science is hardly settled...

Subject: Re: [OM] [Way OT] And the science is hardly settled...
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:19:03 -0600
The "hybrid storm" aspect of this has me pretty interested, in a way. For
many years, I've been studying the various Great Lakes "Superstorms" going
back into the 1800's. For the most part, they follow the same pattern and
are the result of two storm systems merging. When I saw the projections and
that a merge was going to happen, I knew things could go horribly bad. But
the hurricane itself didn't do anything too unexpected or out of the
ordinary. It was the storm surge which was the result of very specific
positional and timing factors which was the problem in that regard.

Specific positional and timing factors CAN NOT be blamed on climate change.
At least, not directly. Do hurricanes happen? Yup. Do high pressure systems
happen. yup. Do powerful lows and frontal boundries occur? Yup. Not a
single aspect of that is unusual or out of the ordinary. It was the weather
equivalent of a lottery that all those things were in exactly the right
position at exactly the right time to get those specific results. If this
was normal or part of a trend, then it really wouldn't be "news" since it
would occur frequently enough that we wouldn't have had 100 year old homes
detroyed.


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Ken Norton
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