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September 24, 2004

MoveOn.Org: Bush to Blame for Hurricanes

Figures. As Bill Clinton was responsible for the rising of the sun and the fruiting of the vines, it must also be the case that the gods are angry that George Bush won't endorse the Kyoto Accords. Poseidon, God of the Oceans, is in a particular snit over this matter.

Thanks to Jim for the link:

SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Attempting to take political advantage of the devastating hurricanes that have hit Florida and the southeastern section of the United States in the past few weeks, liberal political action group MoveOn.org is saying that President George W. Bush is to blame for "making extreme weather stronger."
In an e-mail to supporters, MoveOn.org rhetorically asks "why such extreme weather" has taken place with Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Ivan causing billions of dollars in property damage and loss of life.

"Scientists agree that global warming makes sea levels rise and makes storms stronger, because temperature shifts disrupt the normal balance," MoveOn.org explained. "Warmer water makes more violent hurricanes."

The group added that insurance companies such as Swiss Re and Munich Re say "global warming is causing more losses."

...

"By writing to our local papers, we can reach out to neighbors who are concerned about the extreme weather but don't yet know the connection to President Bush protecting the polluters," MoveOn.org argued.

The e-mail concluded, "And best of luck coping with the weather."

In related news, Ares, God of War, just announced that he "really like[s] the cut of Don Rumsfield's jib."

posted by Ace at 01:24 PM

Comments

In related news, Ares, God of War, just announced, "I really like the cut of Don Rumsfield's jib."

This has to be one of your best snarky remarks. As Master P might say, It slices like a f***ing hammer.

Courage Ace.

Posted by: Scott R. on September 24, 2004 01:41 PM

That's funny moveon.org is blaming it on global warming because i remember just a few weeks ago on NBCs' today show that a weather man from noaa said that he didnt think it was global warming, he thought it was normall cycle that the atlantic goes through every 40-50 years.

Posted by: Randy J. on September 24, 2004 01:53 PM

Ace,

Don't be so snarky. Everybody knows the hurricanes are Gods way of election manipulation. You know, the whole Gore county=no hurricane, Bush county=fucking maelstrom.

Posted by: sentinel on September 24, 2004 02:03 PM

A friend pass ed this along to me the other day - apparently sent to him by a liberal friend (I choose not to associate with them - heh) - the guy has a graphic of the hurricane's paths overlaid with the county by county vote records of 2000. Kinda funny - hurricane's beat the shit out of the counties Bush won, and spared those Gore won.

*update* Fuck it, just saw the comment before mine, and I'm still gonna post this bitch.

Posted by: fat kid on September 24, 2004 02:06 PM

I seem to remember reading that solar activity has a lot to do with hurricane formation. Like sunspots or flares or some shit?? How the fuck did Chimpy manage THAT???

Must be something that only an Evil Genius Retard could figure out how to do.

Posted by: lauraw on September 24, 2004 02:22 PM

"Good luck coping with the weather"? I'd like to take the author of that email down to Pensacola with that quote taped to his back and tell him, "Good luck coping with the locals."

Two words: Gator Bait

Smarmy MF'er. People Died, but what does he care. They might have been Republicans. M****rF****r.

BTW I live in Florida
/rant

Posted by: Brett on September 24, 2004 02:55 PM

I simultaneously question the the timing of these ads, Ace's motivation for bringing attention to them, and Karl Rove.

Posted by: Senator PhilABuster on September 24, 2004 02:55 PM

The above plst should have read "and BLAME Karl Rove".

Posted by: Senator PhilABuster on September 24, 2004 02:58 PM

What'll you have, Kim: nuclear disarmament or a supertyphoon?

Posted by: George Weathergod Bush on September 24, 2004 03:25 PM

Tony Blair has also made a case against global warming, trying to save his job in Britain. Scientists aren't in agreement on global warming in the first place and none of the people studying it think it has anything to do with the hurricanes.

Randy J. has it right.

Posted by: on September 24, 2004 04:00 PM

Randy J. has it right.

Posted by: Roundguy on September 24, 2004 04:00 PM

It appears that facts don't seem to bear out the claim....

A quick google search notes this paper which looks at data from 1944 to 1996 of a DOWNWARD trend in the number of hurricans:

link: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/downward/index.html

Does not have the last 8 years but that does not seem to bear out the claim of Moveon of more due to global warming.

Another link is this bit that will link to 12 other papers saying the same thing.

Not that such folks as MoveOn will agree of course; their claim of increasing numbers of hurricans even when demonstrated false will be "Fake but Accurate!"

A Fool

Posted by: Fool on September 24, 2004 05:37 PM

Opps! forgot the link to the second cite

http://www.co2science.org/edit/v5_edit/v5n18edit.htm

A Fool (yes indeed)

Posted by: Fool on September 24, 2004 05:40 PM

Just for the sake of it:

I read somewhere that US greenhouse gas emissions dropped quite a bit during Bush presidency.

Might be interesting to do a check and see if the Moveon guys just threw another boomerang and turned...

Posted by: The Guest on September 24, 2004 06:11 PM

Hurricanes caused by global warming? That's rich!

Everyone knows they're caused by Karl Rove's diabolical weather machine!

Posted by: Sean M. on September 24, 2004 06:50 PM

Sean,

You would do well to unlock your VRWC Secrets Handbook and turn to page 19. Skim down to the second sentence in the third paragraph. Using your official Repug decoder ring, you should be able to read that any and all conversations about Rove's WeatherFucker v.3 ARE NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION.

This is how conspiracy theories get started, Bub. Tighten it up or we'll have you deported.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation,

Posted by: lauraw on September 24, 2004 07:13 PM

Great post.
Great comments.
Damn Ace, this site has it all.
But seriously, Sean M. ixnay on the eathermachineway.

Posted by: Birkel on September 24, 2004 07:55 PM

Aw, nerts! Looks like I let the cat out of the bag!

Uh-oh, I think someone's breaking down my door! Oh no--it's the jackbooted Rove goon squad, and if I can't escape their clutches, I'm doomed to the Bu$hCo. secret gulag for sure!

Help! Help! Someone call the ACL...

Posted by: Sean M. on September 24, 2004 11:13 PM

It's okay--I'm back. It seems Rove's thugs just wanted to "crush my dissent a little bit" because I'd visited Andrew Sullivan's website within the last 6 months.

Once I recited the neocon loyalty oath to Leo Strauss (in Hebrew, natch) they let me go with a warning.

Posted by: Sean M. on September 24, 2004 11:46 PM

Strauss! Almost forgot about that-

I just may go over to DU and post some excerpts there. Just to sit back and listen to the squeals and enjoy the sound of their pants filling up with fear.

Posted by: lauraw on September 25, 2004 09:22 AM

I am an airline pilot. When I'm at work and begin to get that uncomfortable shaking inflight which makes it difficult to stand, I always turn on the seat-belt sign, and turn to my co-pilot and say "Damn that Global Warming! I hate that stuff!"

Posted by: azlibertarian on September 25, 2004 11:19 AM

WOW! I ran a recursive analysis on the a matrix of MoveOn and Hurricane ASCII characters. I then limited the range of the returned pseudorandom integers to a range of 1900 to 2000.

These were then assigned as years into the NOAA database of Atlantic hurricane paths for Sept 25th. These paths were plotted on a common map and the following composite image appeared!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v459/CoA_Marcus/Random%20Stuff/Drawing2.jpg

Mariss

Posted by: Mariss on September 25, 2004 05:38 PM

From the world of facts: water temperatures in the Atlantic averaged near normal this year. There were a few patches above and below, as usual. One of the warm patches, east of the Windward Islands, helped boost a couple of the developing hurricanes when they passed over. Global warming? Not a factor.

And sea level is not rising.

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