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<p>[QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1568945, member: 41665"]Sandy was barely a Category 1 storm. And in hurricane season, those trees ALWAYS have leaves on them. We cannot declare Sandy "out of character" on those counts. </p><p><br /></p><p>But something <i>has </i>changed, to be sure. Intensity and direction? Sea-level, too. This IS the new normal - adapt (or suffer) accordingly.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">Prediction: The major US bourses (currently in coastal New York/New Jersey) will radically transform</font></p><p><font size="5">and ALL move inland & elsewhere within 10 years.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"></font>From wikipedia:</p><p><b>"Sandy was second to 1938 New England hurricane for the most intense storm, at 946 millibars, to hit land in the United States north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. </b>(The 1938 storm was 941 mbar at landfall.)[49] The barometric pressure hit a record low of 948 mbar (28.0 inHg) over Atlantic City, New Jersey, breaking the previous record of 961 mbar (28.4 inHg) low set in 1938.[50] Sandy also broke the record for producing the lowest pressure in Philadelphia, with a minimum of 954 mbar (28.2 inHg); this broke the 962 mbar (28.4 inHg) record set during the 1993 Storm of the Century.[47]"</p><p><br /></p><p>Sea levels don't rise uniformly across the globe; <b>the ocean has risen faster than average on the East Coast of the USA.</b> These predictions are "old news" but date from the period when 'global warming deniers' were most virulent that no such event was occuring, LOL Are we still trying to wish it away, playing make-believe, praying it'll stop? Uh-oh.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/" rel="nofollow">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/</a></p><p>"Analyzing tide-level data from much of North America, U.S. Geological Survey scientists unexpectedly found that sea levels in the 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) stretch of coast from Cape Hatteras (map), North Carolina, to the Boston area climbed by about 2 to 3.8 millimeters a year, on average, between 1950 and 2009." <b>Seven inches?!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html" rel="nofollow">onalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html</a></p><p>"Yet New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C., area <b>seas will rise 14 to 20 inches by 2100</b>, according to the study, published online today in the journal Nature Geoscience."</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think the New York metro area can become a flood-prone hurricane alley <i>without massively eroding national GDP?</i> No, and we're obviously not "European socialist Dutch" to save New Amsterdam with a new system of levies and dikes. It WON'T happen - we have NO MONEY for that. <i>"No new taxes!"</i> Our gandiose imperium (with extortionate satraps in the 'stans, the Pacific Rim, etc.) and the military-industrial complex (global corporate welfare clients) need our dwindling tax dollars more. Hard choices ahead, people: do the math! So what's Gotham's future look like... and did you forget that film already? </p><p><br /></p><p>Kurt Russell! Ernest Borgnine! Donald Pleasence! Harry Dean Stanton! Isaac Hayes! Adrienne Barbeau!</p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]214426[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1568945, member: 41665"]Sandy was barely a Category 1 storm. And in hurricane season, those trees ALWAYS have leaves on them. We cannot declare Sandy "out of character" on those counts. But something [I]has [/I]changed, to be sure. Intensity and direction? Sea-level, too. This IS the new normal - adapt (or suffer) accordingly. [SIZE=5]Prediction: The major US bourses (currently in coastal New York/New Jersey) will radically transform and ALL move inland & elsewhere within 10 years. [/SIZE]From wikipedia: [B]"Sandy was second to 1938 New England hurricane for the most intense storm, at 946 millibars, to hit land in the United States north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. [/B](The 1938 storm was 941 mbar at landfall.)[49] The barometric pressure hit a record low of 948 mbar (28.0 inHg) over Atlantic City, New Jersey, breaking the previous record of 961 mbar (28.4 inHg) low set in 1938.[50] Sandy also broke the record for producing the lowest pressure in Philadelphia, with a minimum of 954 mbar (28.2 inHg); this broke the 962 mbar (28.4 inHg) record set during the 1993 Storm of the Century.[47]" Sea levels don't rise uniformly across the globe; [B]the ocean has risen faster than average on the East Coast of the USA.[/B] These predictions are "old news" but date from the period when 'global warming deniers' were most virulent that no such event was occuring, LOL Are we still trying to wish it away, playing make-believe, praying it'll stop? Uh-oh. [URL]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/[/URL] "Analyzing tide-level data from much of North America, U.S. Geological Survey scientists unexpectedly found that sea levels in the 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) stretch of coast from Cape Hatteras (map), North Carolina, to the Boston area climbed by about 2 to 3.8 millimeters a year, on average, between 1950 and 2009." [B]Seven inches?! [/B][URL="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html"]onalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090315-new-york-sea-level.html[/URL] "Yet New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C., area [B]seas will rise 14 to 20 inches by 2100[/B], according to the study, published online today in the journal Nature Geoscience." Do you think the New York metro area can become a flood-prone hurricane alley [I]without massively eroding national GDP?[/I] No, and we're obviously not "European socialist Dutch" to save New Amsterdam with a new system of levies and dikes. It WON'T happen - we have NO MONEY for that. [I]"No new taxes!"[/I] Our gandiose imperium (with extortionate satraps in the 'stans, the Pacific Rim, etc.) and the military-industrial complex (global corporate welfare clients) need our dwindling tax dollars more. Hard choices ahead, people: do the math! So what's Gotham's future look like... and did you forget that film already? Kurt Russell! Ernest Borgnine! Donald Pleasence! Harry Dean Stanton! Isaac Hayes! Adrienne Barbeau! [ATTACH=CONFIG]214426[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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