This was in this morning's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Houston —- Texans went to bed Wednesday night expecting to be struck by a tropical storm. They awoke to find they'd been hit by a hurricane instead.The stunningly fast buildup of what became Hurricane Humberto shocked scientists, some of whom said there was nothing like it in the historical record.
I know! I know! It was global warming! It had to be.
In 18 hours, Humberto strengthened from a tropical depression with 35 mph winds to a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds before crashing ashore. It did not grow into a hurricane until after midnight."That has never before happened" in the more than 150 years scientists have been tracking hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, said James Franklin, a senior specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Quick! Call Pope Algore. Have him hold a news conference. It's global warming.
Here's the money shot.
"This took everyone by surprise. This just wasn't forecast to be this bad," said Sgt. Ken Carona of the Port Arthur Police Department. "We knew we were going to get heavy rains, but we did not expect hurricane-strength winds at all.
Weather forecasters can't even predict what's gonna happen eighteen hours ahead of time. These are the same people who are predicting catastrophic global warming sometime in the near future.
As I have stated many times Pope Algore of the Church of AGW said we only have ten years to take action before we're at the point of no return. He said that six years ago, so we'll all know for sure in four more years, right? Wait! He's still saying ten years! He keeps moving the goal posts. And watch, he's gonna continue to do this. Fifteen years from now, when he's made his latest "documentary" on global warming, he'll still be saying ten more years.
What's really funny is we have people who have been saying that Bush is a moron for the last seven years now saying Bush is smart (*cough* Prosper *cough*) because he's signing on to the global warming bullshit. Doesn't matter. The Senate still won't ratify Kyoto or any other global warming crap that would destroy our economy.
AGW is a scam and Algore is a snake oil salesman. Do you think he believes his own bullshit? If he did he would lead by example. Instead, just one of his houses (the one in Nashville) uses twelve times the energy of the average American's house. Yeah, the Pope really cares as he flies off in his private jet to go preach to his flock of suckers believers. Just like a TV evangelist, he's selling bullshit and getting rich doing it. And, just like a TV evangelist he has a bunch of suckers believers who buy into his bullshit. Even intelligent people, like my buddy Prosper, believe in him.
In less than twenty years, when none of his predictions come true will they still believe? Probably. This is a religion after all. Look at all the people waiting for Jesus to return. They've been waiting for two thousand years and He's still not here. He ain't coming back and AGW is bullshit.
I've just offended two religions: AGW and Christianity. My mission here is complete.
Posted by denny at September 14, 2007 12:37 PMWell if that isn't peak of bad taste and political incorrectness I don't know what is. Well done Denny!
Posted by: B....... on September 14, 2007 04:01 PMWow - they actually had all this sophisticated tracking stuff 150 years ago!!! Really? Then how come they didn't manage to pass on some of that illustrious technology to the country at large back in the day? Because 150 years ago is 1858...
I mean... Edison didn't even get the lightbulb invented until 1879 that's 21 years later. Yet they can say for certain what hurricanes were doing before landfall back then?
I wonder why the National Weather Service held on to such technology for so long without helping out the everyday people of the world. And why were they acting as a stealth operation... cause their very own web site says they weren't even formed until 1870...
150 years.... Hmmmm...
It's a conspiracy I tell you. I think they're running the weather and feeding stories to Algore.
Idiots!
Posted by: Teresa on September 14, 2007 05:54 PMWell... actually it was 1857 but I can't type or proofread worth a damn...
Posted by: Teresa on September 14, 2007 05:55 PMIn other words the asshat weather people cannot forecast worth a fleas fart in a wind tunnel.
Posted by: Glenn B on September 14, 2007 05:59 PMIn reality, the storm formed as any storm would that forms so close to that section of the U.S. coast at this time of the year.(which is extremely rare) The air at the surface on land was dryer and became cooler after sunset. The lift from the migrating air gave the storm a kick, which caused the rapid intensification after dark. The high winds were only in the thunderstorms near the center, which amounted to a narrow zone of around 15 miles from the center. Granted the center was powerful, but the areas outside the center received little rain and winds were substantially lower. Nothing was bizarre, although the Weather Channel gurus probably had a group orgasm.
Of course, physics play no part in the church of Algor, so never mind.
Posted by: jon on September 14, 2007 08:35 PMHumberto, calm and agreeable by day, ragingly crosses our boarders by night. Sounds typical to me.
Posted by: Dale on September 14, 2007 09:34 PMHey Denny
Before long you will be able to add your global warming taxes to the list.
As a side note: I got up this morning hoping to load up my deck boat and head for the lake I had planned to spend the night tonight on the boat drift fishing but its down right cold here this morning. They are saying it will be in the 40's tonight. Kinda hard to tell when you get a bite when you are shaking and shivering. Fucking global warming must have caused all that melted polar ice water to run down into Missouri. Now I guess instead of fishing I'll have to out with my big gas guzzling truck and cut down some trees so I can build a big hot CO2 belching fire in the fireplace tonight. Maybe that will help warm things back up a bit.
And I saw something somewhere about some idiot in congress(I know, that's redundent) wanting to mandate the use of flourescent bulbs. I guess I'll have to start buying incandescent bulbs like I do ammo and food - by the case.
Posted by: emdfl on September 15, 2007 10:32 AM