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To: combjelly who wrote (751884)

11/9/2013 11:50:46 AM

From: koan

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Third in a row.

Asia's getting clobbered again...

Super Typhoon Haiyan Finishes Pounding the Philippines, Headed for Vietnam

By: Dr. Jeff Masters, 3:50 PM GMT on November 08, 2013

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After spending 48 hours at Category 5 strength, the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in world history, Super Typhoon Haiyan, has finally weakened to a Category 4 storm. With top sustained winds of 155 mph, Haiyan is still an incredibly powerful super typhoon, but has now finished its rampage through the Central Philippine Islands, and is headed across the South China Sea towards Vietnam. Satellite loops show that Haiyan no longer has a well-defined eye, but the typhoon still has a huge area of intense thunderstorms which are bringing heavy rains to the Central Philippines. I've never witnessed a Category 5 storm that made landfall and stayed at Category 5 strength after spending so many hours over land, and there are very few storms that have stayed at Category 5 strength for so long.
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To: combjelly who wrote (751884)	11/10/2013 9:47:18 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1576217

I agree with you. Those are inconvenient facts for many on this thread, though. You know, once again, this is why I don't belong on the Obama thread and I don't belong on the Conservative threads either. On the Obama thread, they believe in Fantasy Economics. On the Conservative threads, they don't believe in science. Am I doomed to be on forums where everyone is a fucking idiot in some regard? Sheesh. Where are the smart people who believe in science and also simlutaneously believe that printing money is a bad thing? Are those two things mutually exclusive? Please feel free to post to me. I'm dying to meet one rational person. Are there any left?

To: combjelly who wrote (751884)	11/11/2013 1:09:19 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576217

The Earth will survive. But nothing says we have to be in the mix. Yes, that's what many on the right don't realize. Like many other species before us, we may well go extinct. Oh, I suspect many in the developed world will survive. But much of the rest of humanity is going to have it pretty tough. Persistent droughts have caused more than one civilization to fall in our history. Not to mention many of our staple crops are adapted for our current climate. Most of them are also grown as a monoculture, so there aren't the gene reservoirs there used to be to help those crops to adapt to a new climate. Have you seen the photos coming out of the Philippines. It looks like a massive tornado combined with a massive tsunami hit the place.