Comments on: South Carolina Rain

By: dean

dean — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:53:22 +0000

sn, some people would say you have to work hard to appear so stupid and out of touch. I have faith however – I believe it comes naturally.

By: See Noevo

See Noevo — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:02:57 +0000

Speaking of “100-year” precipitation events,
here’s one from around a hundred years ago:
http://www.history.com/news/the-superstorm-that-flooded-america-100-years-ago

Just imagine how bad it would have been with today’s SUVs!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:29:26 +0000

It is quite possible that my poor abused sarcasm detectors and irony meters have gone on the blink after too much blogging on this topic over the years! Bought new ones just the other day and all but just get through so many these days! Sigh.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:26:54 +0000

Or you could maybe be clearer or add a sarc tag to avoid confusion?

Sorry but if I am confused maybe its Poes law at work and if you write in a style that is satirical maybe you need to allow for the fact that people are going to get fooled by it at times.

If that was satire then, well done I guess. Got me.

By: Magma

Magma — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:15:00 +0000

@ StevoR:

That’s two posts in a row where you’ve replied to a comment of mine that you’ve entirely misunderstood. Please refrain from commenting on them until you figure out my writing style and tone… or feel perfectly free to skip over them.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:06:00 +0000

@19. Magma : Umm.. did ..did you really confuse the standard ‘Once in X years’ indictator of the frequency of extreme weather events with actual forecasting i.e. in 10,000 years will get a flood this big? Presumably on Tuesday afternoon 10,2015 CE!

Seriously?

Also if you see a huge problem coming in , pretty much any field really, aren’t you ethically obliged to raise the alarm?

If say you see a house on fire or an iceberg in front of your boat, do you think its admirable to just ignore it and pretend it isn’t real or a problem until say the house is burnt to the ground with all occupants inside or the ship sunk and lost with all hands?

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:33:58 +0000

Not that it matters much to this, but humans started altering the GHGs in atmosphere with agriculture (CO2) 7000+ years sgo and then CH4 with rice paddies ~5000. By now CO2 “should” have been down to ~240-250ppm.
Ruddiman and co.

By: Magma

Magma — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:35:54 +0000

Family members outside of Charleston received 145% of the NWS 1000 year, 96 hour rainfall for the area. So what's that... a 10,000 year storm? Or is time to ditch these very long-term forecasts of extreme meteorological events? Meteorologists and climate scientists... such alarmists.

By: Narad

Narad — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:03:06 +0000

“See Noevo” and his ilk (for lack of a better word at the moment) do not know that they do not know enough about climatology to ask what Sir Isaac Newton called “the prudent question.” Or as Pauli said “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!”

S.N. is actually much, much simpler; he just incompetently goes through the motions for the sake of attention. There are two basic concepts that underlie his entire trip:

1. Nothing really bad can happen to the planet, because the Second Coming.

2. Climate change is isomorphic to evolution.

In practice, this amounts to, e.g., hanging around Breitbump a lot and substituting it for thought.

By: dean

dean — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:49:40 +0000

So much again for typing on a phone. That link is for floods but the interpretation is the same.