Climate Change? Nahhh ...

[Riptide]

Fueled by near-record warm ocean water and favorable atmospheric conditions, Hurricane Patricia has become the strongest hurricane ever measured — period — with maximum sustained winds at an astonishing 200 miles per hour.

The storm will make landfall later Friday in a populated part of Mexico's Pacific coast, potentially wiping out tourist resorts and anything else in its path between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo. The storm may strengthen or weaken some before it strikes land, but it is likely to still be a Category 5 storm at landfall, which could bring a catastrophic combination of storm surge flooding, high winds and flooding rains.

Hurricane Patricia, strongest hurricane ever seen, heads toward Mexico

 

[JC]

But it is cold in New York.

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[Dick Whitman]

Only liberals get to use one weather event as evidence of their position.

 

[doctorquant]

Interesting paragraph/quote in the linked article:

Kerry Emmanuel, a hurricane expert at MIT, told Mashable in an email on Friday that the lack of a consistent record of eastern Pacific storms using hurricane hunter flights makes it difficult to determine if there is a global warming-related trend in such storms. Such flights are typically flown in the Atlantic and only occasionally in the eastern Pacific, so this was an exceptional case.

"There is no question that this is an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone," he wrote. "But I wonder whether we really know that prior storms in the region have not been equally intense and we are just lucky to have measured this one."

So there you have it ... the climate-change deniers have infiltrated the hallowed halls of academia. What other explanation could there be?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Bring back the agrarian economy!

 

[doctorquant]

I need to do a bit of the google and see how much money the Koch bros. give to MIT.

 

[heyabbott]

I need to do a bit of the google and see how much money the Koch bros. give to MIT.

Nobody at MIT gets koch

 

[doctorquant]

Nobody at MIT gets koch

I have fairly extensive ties to a similar institution (Ga. Tech). Both my dissertation chair (a she) and, later, a woman whose dissertation I chaired were undergrad alums from there. And each frequently joked that, as re: dating prospects, at Ga. Tech women encounter a situation in which "the odds are good but the goods are odd."

 

[YankeeFan]

It's stunning how the frequency of mega-storms has increased since Katrina due to global warming.

 

[Batman]

I bet this storm is strong enough to roar through Mexico, travel north across the border and stay together long enough to break the drought in California. Thus once again proving that Mexican storms are just doing the jobs that American storms don't want to do.

 

[swingline]

I have fairly extensive ties to a similar institution (Ga. Tech). Both my dissertation chair (a she) and, later, a woman whose dissertation I chaired were undergrad alums from there. And each frequently joked that, as re: dating prospects, at Ga. Tech women encounter a situation in which "the odds are good but the goods are odd."

That's an old joke at all science and technology heavy universities. And still funny.