scientists-warn-of-superstorm heading for California

[harry 48]

all they are trying to do is let the people imagine the sheer size of it , they could not say a pool of water is heading south.

i dont know if you get the tv pictures of the devastation but its very bad

i have had my garage flooded twice with storms and the mess took weeks to clean and dry out and i lost all my tools and equipment etc.

[patio]

they could not say a pool of water is heading south.

Why not ? ?

I'll say it right now..." A pool of water is heading South"...

[BC_Programmer]

all they are trying to do is let the people imagine the sheer size of it , they could not say a pool of water is heading south.

That doesn't make it less of a metaphor.

i dont know if you get the tv pictures of the devastation but its very bad

irrelevant. Wether the devastation is bad or not does not make a difference, it's not a lake.

i have had my garage flooded twice with storms and the mess took weeks to clean and dry out and i lost all my tools and equipment etc.

Also redundant. What you've lost  due to storms (you're not even talking about actual floods anymore, just storms?) or how many tools you lost has nothing to do with the floods they are having now and even less to do with the fact that the water that rises as a result of a flood is no more called a lake then if a water main burst and filled an intersection with water.

[harry 48]

That doesn't make it less of a metaphor.

is that an animal


quote:- it's not a lake.

an expanse of water entirely surrounded by land



quote:- a flood is no more called a lake than if a water main burst and filled an intersection with water.

thats called hard luck

i lost my gear by a flood due to the storm

[BC_Programmer]

is that an animal

Wow. Just... wow.

[harry 48]

Wow. Just... wow.

i'm glad you like it 

[patio]

A pool of water is heading South"...

[Geek-9pm]

Pool? Media says it is a Wall of Water. In Australia..

Australia is Flooding
Post by foxfire on Jan 1, 2011, 10:05am
Nature is so cruel...
We have just recovered from the worst drought in history.
There were entire towns with no water to drink, no water for anything.
Now we have floods like you would not believe. QLD in the north east of Aus has 38 regions and 300,000 sq miles flooded, and once again some towns have little drinking water. There are about 1,000 people living in evacuation centers

So therefor if such a rare unexpected flood could happen down under, then we might conclude that such a thing in California is more that just possible.

[BC_Programmer]

So therefor if such a rare unexpected flood could happen down under, then we might conclude that such a thing in California is more that just possible.

your apophenia is getting worse.

[Geek-9pm]

your apophenia is getting worse.

Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad,[1] who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".
In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a type I error (false positive, false alarm, caused by an excess in sensitivity).[citation needed]
Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying the presence of neurological differences or mental illness.
In 2008 Michael Shermer coined the word 'patternicity', defining it as "the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

No, my apophenia is the same. The meaningless events have increased, which causes normal people to display symptoms of he distortion of reality.

Example; If an tempt to kill you happens three times in one day you would become very alert and fearfull. Even with no real proof found of a deliberate plot to do you in. The lower level of the brain is driven by survival, not intellect. Such is normal, not psychotic, behavior.

There  have, in fact, been an increase in natural  events that have taken many human lives and brought great destruction of property. This may be a statistical deviation from the norm. But human survival instinct  overrides  cold logic.

BC, if you drown in a flood, I would not find any pleasure in saying "I told him so."

More bad stuff is coming and ignoring it is not a safe refuge. The is a saying, "Better a living coward dog instead of a brave dead lion."

[BC_Programmer]

Example; If an tempt to kill you happens three times in one day you would become very alert and fearfull. Even with no real proof found of a deliberate plot to do you in. The lower level of the brain is driven by survival, not intellect. Such is normal, not psychotic, behavior.

This is stupid. Natural disasters of any sort are not something anybody of a sane mind should at any point consider to be an "tempt" to kill (or an attempt even). An attempt indicates some sort of intelligence. a Tornado cannot attempt to rip down your house any more then water or the vacuum of space can "attempt" to kill you.

There  have, in fact, been an increase in natural  events that have taken many human lives and brought great destruction of property.

No, there hasn't.

More bad stuff is coming

How can you say this? What proof is there? What the *censored* difference does it make? Like I SAID, "scientists" (by which I mean, self-proclaimed experts) have been saying that WE should be getting a gigantic cataclysmic earthquake for over 30 years. We had a minor, almost unnoticable shake in February 2002 but that's about it. As far as I'm concerned warnings like this are not perpetuated or started by actual scientists and are either fabricated entirely by the media or by some self-indulgent dickhead trying to further their own agenda. In this case it could be anybody; clearly this nonsense ties quite well into the complete nonsense that is the world ending in 2012, because after all the bajillionth time is the charm, I suppose.

and ignoring it is not a safe refuge. The is a saying, "Better a living coward dog instead of a brave dead lion."

What? That isn't even remotely related.

[harry 48]

There  have, in fact, been an increase in natural  events that have taken many human lives and brought great destruction of property. This may be a statistical deviation from the norm. But human survival instinct  overrides  cold logic.


More bad stuff is coming and ignoring it is not a safe refuge. The is a saying, "Better a living coward dog instead of a brave dead lion."

your statement is true , over this past 2 years the weather pattern has turned upside down

[harry 48]

a few people may not believe these staements

the year 2010

1/   The first nine months of the year have seen the highest number of weather-related events since German reinsurance giant Munich Re started keeping records.

2/   This year has so far been the warmest since measurements began 130 years ago, with new temperature records set in Russia (37.8 degrees centigrade) and in Asia (53.5 degrees in

 Pakistan).

3/    a new temperature record was set in Los Angeles, with the mercury hitting 45 degrees

4/    Northern Australia had the wettest May-October on record, while the southwestern part of that country had its driest spell on record. And parts of the Amazon River basin struck by

 drought hit their lowest water levels in recorded history.

5/    After strong early year blizzards, nicknamed Snowmageddon, paralysed the US mid-Atlantic and record snowfalls hit Russia and China, the temperature turned to broil.

6/    In the southeastern United States, the year began with freezes in Florida that had cold-blooded iguanas becoming comatose and falling off trees

7/    Even the extremes were extreme. This year started with a good sized El Nino, a recurring Pacific Ocean weather oscillation, which causes all sorts of extremes worldwide. Then later in

 the year, the world got the mirror image Pacific weather system with a strong La Nina, which causes a different set of extremes. Having a year with both a strong El Nino and La Nina is

 unusual.

8/   Britain had it coldest winter for 30 years , northern irelands coldest winter sinse 1963

9/   In the U.S., it was the 23rd warmest year on record and the 14th year in a row with an annual temperature above the long-term average

10/ floods in Australia were it should be dry this time of the year

11/  brazil  got a months rain in one hour which killed nearly 600 people


but then everything is fine there is nothing going wrong with the weather pattern and the earth is fine , just leave things as they are and everything will be ok .

dont bother cutting down on your carbon footprint or recycling , just carry on wasting

[patio]

Source ? ?

There's at least 1/2 of those i would dispute...not counting the falling Iguana's...

[harry 48]

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/2010+exceptional+year+weather+disasters/3740043/story.html

http://www.usatoday.com/

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BU09620110102

http://www.news24.com/World/News/2010-Natural-disasters-bad-weather-20101220