Technically no – Sandy was a post-tropical storm when it made landfall in the US. It was dubbed Superstorm Sandy instead of Hurricane Sandy due to that technicality.
As I recall, many said Sandy was a Northern Clipper in the revision. Wow, they sure cut all that red tape after Obama hugged Christie and made his promise. They are still trying to settle thousands of claims.
you recall incorrectly. first, the storm came from the south – if anything, it would be considered a southern clipper, not a northern clipper. anyway, is was not a clipper system. when it made landfall in the US it was just a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds. rosenblatt was correct
October 22, 2015 at 4:59 pm
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Sandy was revised to a mid latitude Nor’Easter so no it was not a Hurricane even though they said it was before they said it was not.
sandy started in the tropics, so it could not have been a nor’easter or a northern clipper, as both of those terms indicate a storm that began in the north. you are still wrong and rosenblatt is still right – sandy was a post-tropical storm with hurricane force winds when it made landfall in the US.
This is bullshit rhetoric. Sandy was a hurricane, but was no longer classified that at landfall. This is relevant in insurance, because many deductibles have provisions that include hurricanes, but not post-tropical storms; however for bullshit, conspiracy theory, climate change denial it is irrelevant. There hurricane force winds, as well as damage from the storm while it was still officially classified as a hurricane, so as far as insurance is concerned it could be argued for some on the coast that their damage was in fact by a hurricane, and hurricane deductibles apply. Again though, completely irrelevant when it comes to conspiracy theories.
On top of that, it is unlikely a tropical storm classified as a hurricane would still be a “hurricane” when it landed that far north, but the outcome and causes are the same. This moronic line of denialism also ignores increased hurricane activity which has occurred around the world, and have not made landfall largely due to random chance.
I see agenda 2030 is in full bloom at bloomberg. Everyone give up your light bulbs while the elite jet set around the globe. Serfs don’t need light bulbs or barbecues.
Ok Climate Change wackos, keep trying to convince us that man is responsible for every thunderstorm, hail storm, hurricane that strikes anywhere on the planet. All we need to do is spend $80 Trillion across the Globe to reduce carbon 1%, right? That ought to do the trick.
We have seen dozens of articles in the past 7 years which said all the things that I mentioned. Your ignorance is astounding. By the way, the President said Climate Change is the most serious “national security” threat that this nation faces. His ignorance is astounding.
using my comment against me? wow, that’s really clever. i hope you didn’t strain your brain coming up with that reply agent.
i agree with you that climate change isn’t the most serious national security threat that the president claimed it was.
that said, you’re still 100% wrong that the climate change “wackos” are attributing every single weather event to climate change. i bet you can’t even find one article that says that.
October 20, 2015 at 5:47 pm
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The satellites that have been orbiting the Earth for the last 17 years have not noted an increase in the Earth’s temperature AT ALL. Gee, how could that possibly be when 97% of the scientists (who are all receiving grants from the government to do their research and what have you on the nonexistent warming of the planet)say that the Earth is heating up?
I just don’t understand how this could be? Those satellites must need to be serviced. LOL
Lord Christopher Monckton is not a climate change expert, is not even a scientist, and has already been exposed as a liar and a crackpot, even by other climate change deniers!
CRACKPOT – ‘Monckton was described by fellow skeptic James Delingpole as “another hatchet job”‘
CRACKPOT – Back in the 80s he said he wanted every member of the population to be blood-tested every month for AIDS, and said if someone tested positive to isolate them compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.
LIAR – In 2014, he reported that homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000
LIAR – ‘In 2006 he referred to himself as “a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature” in a letter to US Senators, and has said he was “a member of the Upper House but without the right to sit or vote.” The House of Lords authorities have said Monckton is not and never has been a member and that there is no such thing as a non-voting or honorary member of the House. In July 2011 the House of Lords took the “unprecedented step” of publishing online a cease and desist letter to Monckton from the Clerk of the Parliaments, which concluded, “I am publishing this letter on the parliamentary website so that anybody who wishes to check whether you are a Member of the House of Lords can view this official confirmation that you are not.”‘
I am sorry, but I cannot believe a word that guy says about anything. His track record of speaking the truth is atrocious.
October 21, 2015 at 7:42 pm
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Always Amazed, you have no idea what you are talking about. Look at any chart of average world temperatures. The idiot you cite has been debunked so often, and so thoroughly an actual thinking person would be embarrassed to cite him. Here is one simple one. He cherry-picks by choosing one extremely hot year. If you go back one year further, you have a string of historically warm years, but he, and you, do not do that, because you are ideological frauds. Look at the chart under the section of the fraud you mention:
This year is shaping up to be by far the warmest year on record. Of course you will explain that away like you did when you idiots said Hurricane Sandy doesn’t count, because it started just a little too far south, as if that matters, or as if landfall over a few years in a specific region is an accurate, coherent, or logical measure of the number of hurricanes or the temperature worldwide long-term.
October 22, 2015 at 4:48 pm
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Ben, good point. Our wonderful EPA would like everyone to stop cooking on their back yard BBQ pits because it is harmful to the environment and will cause “devastating” Global Warming. I wonder how many of our leftist bloggers still use their BBQ pits to cook their free range chicken and Tofu. By the way, the light bulbs are now the Obama bulbs which cost a whole lot more and if they ever break, the chemicals in them are very harmful.
If you bought one Obama bulb for $20 and it lasts 20 years, that’s cheaper than buying an old bulb for $5 that you have to replace every 5 years. And we haven’t even talked about the energy savings you’d get from the Obama bulb over the old school ones too.
The Obama bulb is more expensive when initially purchased, I agree, but it’s a cheaper solution over the long run.
FYI — “CFLs typically contain from three to five milligrams of mercury—about one hundredth of the mercury content of the older [bulbs]…
“Researchers have found that…even if left unattended for 24 hours, a broken bulb will release from 0.04 to 0.7 milligrams of mercury….
“The researchers found that it would take weeks for the amount of mercury vapor in the room to reach levels that would be hazardous to a child”
Obama bulb = $20 purchase & lasts for 20 years
Obama bulb cost per year = $1
Regular bulb = $5 purchase & last for 4 years
Regular bulb cost per year = $1.25
Regardless of the #s used, the point is the same: Obama bulbs cost more than the old school bulbs up front, but the Obama bulbs are cheaper over the long-term
Literally the entire scientific community attributes at most 30% of all climate change to human impact. Climate Change could possibly account for some of the increased amount of hurricane damages (highly debatable), but how can this be constructively addressed with 70% of the problem out of reach?
If climate change is the reason, why have the hurricanes decreased drastically in recent years. I remember doing hurricane duty on my September birthdays frequently in the 80s and 90s but that is not the case any more.
Aven, I think it is called El Nino and La Nina, both naturally occurring weather patterns which have nothing to do with man and CO2 emissions. Many scientist now predict we will have Global Cooling by 2030, not Global Warming. We have already seen some snow falling in the Great Lakes so this may be another heavy winter for snow and cold.
Once again Agent – we’re talking about GLOBAL temperatures here, not what it may be doing in one small section of our country. Take 2014 – record snow in the north east USA and the great lakes were frozen during the winter, but GLOBALLY it was the hottest year on record.
Rosenblatt, try Googling – Global Cooling. Several articles for your reading pleasure. It will give you all the empirical evidence you need that the planet is cooling, not getting hotter.
Hey Always, ever notice how the Progressive Environmentalists discount any other evidence that doesn’t line up with their Global Warming failed science agenda. They would rather believe Obama and Gore, two of the biggest liars ever on the public stage. I still laugh at Gore’s prediction that the polar caps would be gone by 2014. Their only solution is to institute Carbon taxing which will further hurt business and individuals.
October 21, 2015 at 10:27 am
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You talking about me, Agent? Did you forget I agreed with BS in a previous article that the measurements used by NOAA were far from perfect and left a lot of holes to fill?
Yeah, you probably don’t remember because it doesn’t fit your belief that everyone who disagrees with you has their fingers in their ears, their eyes closed, doesn’t know right from wrong, is unreasonable, and is always out to attack you.
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Empirical measurements of the Earth’s heat content show the planet is still accumulating heat and global warming is still happening. Surface temperatures can show short-term cooling when heat is exchanged between the atmosphere and the ocean, which has a much greater heat capacity than the air.
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“There was definitely a slowdown in warming from around 2000-2012 centered in the Pacific, but leading to a slowing of warming over the Northern Hemisphere,” said Mann. That local event barely impacted the global mean temperature at the time.
“There certainly is variability from year to year, and one can find periods in the record where there are small changes,” but over the long term, the world is still warming at an alarming rate, Karl said.
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That’s what my research found. Care to post anything to support your argument Agent, or you’re just going to reply with “Rosenblatt, you just don’t know how to google properly” like you’ve done in the past and not add anything to support to your comment?
October 21, 2015 at 11:17 am
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…it may have been IM and not BS, but my point is the same.
October 21, 2015 at 12:59 pm
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Rosenblatt, you have selective memory. It was integrity, not BS that handed you your head on the last article on Climate Change after you kept trotting out your fake numbers on Global Warming.
As I recall, you had to back pedal and agree with him. Why did you go back to your familiar “warming theory”
October 21, 2015 at 1:26 pm
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I have never back-pedaled from my stance, Agent. I’ve always said — (1) the earth is warming based on global temperature measurements (2) while man may not be the sole cause of this trend, we’re certainly contributing to it and (3) regardless of the cause, we need to figure out how to ensure the habitability of the planet for generations to come.
October 21, 2015 at 3:17 pm
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Yes, I have Agent. The second you disagree with their point of view, even though the evidence proves them wrong, they go off the deep end. They must be loosing their minds over the ice caps still being around and actually increasing in size, mind you. And didn’t Gore say that Florida would be under water by now? Geeze, I have friends who live there and they are all alive and well.
October 21, 2015 at 3:46 pm
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AA – I have tried explaining this to Agent and he never seems to get it. Let me ask you a question as it relates to your ice cap comment.
As you know, there are two poles on our planet and therefore two places where polar ice caps exist.
(I’m making up these numbers, but bear with me) If the antarctic ice cap increased from 200km to 400km over the past 50 years and the arctic ice cap decreased from 400km to 100km over the past 50 years – would you agree that polar ice caps as a whole have decreased by 100km?
My point is simple: if the antarctic ice cap has increased by a lower amount than the arctic ice cap has decreased, you can’t say the ice caps as a whole are increasing in size.
I’m sorry – that link took you to the main article with many different graphs. Here’s a link solely for the chart I’m talking about as it relates to ice caps
Always, I have some good and funny info for you. Today was the first day Hilliary was testifying before the House on Benghazi. One of her first statements was – I didn’t have a computer in my office during Benghazi. Of course she didn’t, she didn’t use a government provided computer since she thought her Personal Computer was “allowed” and had her info on that Blackberry or tablet, you know the one where all the info was scrubbed from?
October 22, 2015 at 3:33 pm
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It is not unusual for people serving in the highest levels of public office to forgo a computer in their office.
October 20, 2015 at 3:22 pm
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why wouldn’t anyone at least acknowledge that having 7 1/2 billion people using fossil fuels at a faster pace than anytime in history would have an impact on the condition of our atmosphere?
I believe that, and I dislike Obama and his policies.
I also don’t like Obama and think more of his policies and promises have failed than worked (Gitmo was supposed to be closed years ago, right?) and I am with you here too – while man may not be the sole reason we’re seeing the change, it’s naive for us to think we haven’t at least contributed to the situation. Regardless of what is causing the changes, we should do everything within our power to keep the planet habitable for our human ancestors.
Rosenblatt, finally a reasonable post from you. The vast majority of Obama’s policies have failed by the way. His general’s have told him repeatedly that Putin was his biggest security threat and he automatically goes right back to his Climate Change agenda. That is idiotic, sorry!
What do you propose to do about man’s contribution to the situation? Do you propose to send Al Gore to China, Japan, India and read them the riot act on their pollution? The last deal Obama made with China had them start addressing pollution issues in 2030 while Obama promised to cut by 25% by 2020. Is that a fair deal or is it another example of Obama leading from behind?
Rosenblatt, I don’t know why I expected an answer on what you propose to do about man’s contribution to the situation. Instead, you give me pablum and dodge as usual.
October 21, 2015 at 9:31 am
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I don’t know why you’re upset – I simply took a page out of the “how to post on IJ like Agent does” book. You asked a reasonable and direct question, so I ignored it and wrote whatever I wanted to. That’s how you respond to my questions, so I’m just treating you the way you treat others, albeit with less personal attacks and rhetoric.
October 22, 2015 at 4:31 pm
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More, in this information age, it is now accepted by all officials to send and receive emails. We have seen many scandals erupt from the use of them. Remember the IRS, Lois Lerner. When a high level public official like the Secretary of State and her peons were told to use the official government server for business and they disregard that completely, use their own unsecure server 30,000 or more times, then try to have it scrubbed and hide the info from investigators, there is something terribly wrong with that picture. Hilliary is as nasty as they come.
Also, Africa has lost most of its forest due to the slaughter of the beautiful Elephants who are the keepers of the forests. They will be extinct in our lifetime along with the rhinos. The forest produce the air that we breath. There was more CO2 on this planet long before man ever made his appearance.
You the guy who used a Daily Caller link? Did you bother to read it? It quoted Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. He is not a scientist. He’s tried to pass himself off as a member of The House of Lords. He’s not. And he claimed he had been named a Nobel Peace Laureate. He wasn’t This guy has as much expertise in Climatology as you do. If you ever want to be taken seriously, I wouldn’t mention The Daily Caller.
It seems a lot (but not all) of the climate change skeptics are more than willing to believe anyone who writes about the climate not warming, but they refuse to believe anything written by the actual scientists who have studied the topic in depth.
I forgive you Agent – because you’re wrong about Integrity “shooting me down”, you’re wrong that I changed my thoughts on the matter, and because I am used to you ignoring reality and history when you post.
Reading these comments was good for a laugh as usual. Lefties preaching climate change while ignoring anything contradictory to their “beliefs” A belief is NOT evidence.
The fact that the solution to this “problem” will involve taxes, tells you all you need to know about it. I love how we’re being brainwashed to believe we should cut our carbon footprint by the very same people flying around in private jets, burning more fuel in one trip than most of us use in a year! Taxes…that’ll fix it..just like all the other problems the govt created, then later fixed through higher taxes. I’m sure they’ll be “temporary” too, until they’re permanent.
It’s amazing (sad really) that posters such as “agent” are naïve enough to fall for this narrative. Hey Agent, do you have a “ready for Hillary” or “feel the bern” bumper sticker on your prius? LOL
The fact that the solution to this “problem” will involve taxes, tells you all you need to know about it. I love how we’re being brainwashed to believe we should cut our carbon footprint by the very same people flying around in private jets, burning more fuel in one trip than most of us use in a year…
It’s amazing (sad really) that posters such as “agent” are naïve enough to fall for this narrative. Hey Agent, do you have a “ready for Hillary” or “feel the bern” bumper sticker on your prius? LOL
…I’m trying to decide if this is sarcasm, trolling, or that you just didn’t actually read the comments?
Hey BS & Joker, it will be a “cold day in July” before I ever have a bumper sticker for Hilliary or the Communist Sanders. I would just as soon they be led off in handcuffs. They don’t have Biden to worry about now. I guess he didn’t have the stomach to challenge along with Webb who quit the other day. We are talking about the new Democratic Socialist Party now.
Considering his comment implies that he’s anti-climate change, but then takes a swipe at you for being for it, it has me questioning if it was supposed to be sarcasm/trolling or if he didn’t actually read the comments, like he said he did.
Sorry to disappoint you confused. You sure are confused about a lot of things, aren’t you? Texas, to your great surprise is not in the southern hemisphere. Did you ever take geography in school? Apparently not. By the way, we average in the 90’s in July and we don’t consider that Global Warming. Are you located in the great Blue State north which is getting snow in the Great Lakes in October?
October 21, 2015 at 3:36 pm
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i know where texas is you idiot.
you never said ‘cold day in july in texas’. all you said was cold day in july, and i replied saying there are tons of cold days in july, just not in this hemisphere.
do a better job of writing what you really mean to say the next time you post. not everyone here is a mind reader and knows what you meant to say but never wrote
October 21, 2015 at 3:45 pm
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Hey Still Confused, everyone but you got what I said and didn’t seem to have a problem with it. You just are spoiling for a fight. You are merely a bad “word parser” and Rosenblatt can’t hold a candle to you.
I wonder if he will call you out for name calling. You are one arrogant poster.
Agent says: “As the mean spirited Nebraskan says: Just go away – as a monitor.”
You can’t tell me to go away as a monitor and then expect me to continue to be the monitor.
Catch-22 for me: I call people out and you reply with “go away” or I don’t call people out and you reply with “why aren’t you calling people out?”
Pick a stance and stick with it.
Do you want me to call people out for swears and/or personal attacks or do you want me to go away as a monitor? You cannot choose both.
October 21, 2015 at 1:56 pm
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Agent,
Please define “communist” for the class and then tell us how ANY of Bernie’s platforms are such. Pro tip – Democratic socialist is not equal to communist.
Rosenblatt, I recommend that you not play the lottery at all. Do you not realize the odds of winning are astronomical? I hope you don’t play in Illinois. Their latest scandal is that they can’t pay off anything more than $600 since they seem to have an ongoing budget crisis brought on by their Progressive long term Democratic leadership in the legislature. No wonder FFA moved to Wisconsin.
My comment was a joke, Agent, but I won’t waste my time trying to explain humor to you because that would detract from a very important discussion we need to have:
Agent says: “As the mean spirited Nebraskan says: Just go away – as a monitor.”
You can’t tell me to go away as a monitor and also expect me to continue to be the monitor (as you did above in response to confused calling you an idiot).
Catch-22 for me: I call people out and you reply with “go away” or I don’t call people out and you reply with “why aren’t you calling people out?”
Pick a stance and stick with it.
Do you want me to call people out for swears and/or personal attacks or do you want me to go away as a monitor? You cannot choose both.
Rosenblatt, I am now convinced beyond “any” doubt whose side you are on. I am now going to impose a moratorium on replying to you for the near future or maybe longer. If I were you, I would see someone about your word parsing problem. It is annoying and despicable.
October 22, 2015 at 1:33 pm
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Agent,
Can you please put a moratorium on ALL of your posts, especially anything to do with economics and/or politics?
You and bob both need to just go away.
October 22, 2015 at 2:45 pm
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while you are at it agent, please include me on your ‘will-not-respond-to’ list. i look forward to not hearing back from you
October 22, 2015 at 12:53 pm
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This is a simple matter I’m asking you to clarify for me, Agent.
Either you don’t want me to call out people like you wrote on Monday or you do want me to keep doing it like you said over the past few weeks.
I am not taking sides. I am merely asking you which of the two incongruent demands you’ve made of me over the past few weeks you want me to follow.
Agent, get a sense of humor…all you’re doing is proving how angry and defensive you are about, well, most everything. Lighten up, dude.
Rosenblatt, I appreciate your rational approach to most things, but I am not sure why you continue to bang your head on the desk in trying to get Agent to agree that he did or did not say something. Ask the question of him once – chances are good that if he responds, he won’t answer the question but deflect. Don’t make yourself look small by ‘beating the dead horse’. We already have enough of that from Agent. Please take this in the spirit intended – I’m on your side.
I hear you, Thursday Thoughts. I’ll certainly try to do a better job going forward. Everyone has room for improvement; I appreciate your constructive criticism and definitely will take your comments to heart.
October 22, 2015 at 3:39 pm
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Thursday Thoughts, I have no need to attack you. You can believe what you want, you can read all the attacks on me by the Progressive left on any blog and then you can decide whether they have been fair to me. If you think them to be fair, that tells me all I need to know about your persuasion.
October 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm
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Agent, please at least be self-aware; the majority of the attacks are instigated by you, and are usually very angry and often without provocation. I don’t believe anyone should be attacking others on this blog, but your commentary typically stands out as the most angry, negative, deflective, and labeling. My thoughts on your commentary and actions are not political in nature at all – I am not a Progressive Leftist, etc. – I just find your posts some of the most hateful on this blog. This is, after all, just a little blog that’s supposed to be about insurance related articles and not intended to cure the nation’s state of affairs.
October 23, 2015 at 2:56 pm
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Thursday, why am I not surprised at your latest comment? You apparently didn’t read very far or get a good sampling. Just today, the leftist element stole my moniker yet again to post their liberal trash and try to paint me in a bad light.
By the way, I will continue posting and calling out all these Progressive dufuses and will not knuckle under to you or any of them, so you can get off my back now. It won’t do you any good.
October 23, 2015 at 3:05 pm
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‘Just today, the leftist element stole my moniker yet again to post their liberal trash and try to paint me in a bad light.’
when and where did this happen? which article? which post?
October 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm
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This article is vindicated by the facts. The most powerful hurricane we’ve ever recorded is poised to devastate Mexico. The 2nd strongest typhoon ever recorded wrecked the Philippines just 2 years ago. If you can’t see that the storms are getting more intense and the interval between major storms is decreasing, then you just aren’t paying attention.
Dave, sorry to report that Patricia was not the most devastating storm we have seen. Only about $200 million in damages and no loss of life reported. I think the Mexican mountains really tore this storm apart.
You don’t have to be sorry Agent, Dave never said it was the most devastating storm! He’s is right that Patricia was the most powerful storm humans have ever recorded (200+ mph sustained winds).
OK Agent and the rest of you wackos…have at it.
I must be missing something. There hasn’t been a major hurricane in the US for 10 years.
Wouldn’t Sandy count?
(I’m legitimately asking, not trying to be snarky.)
Technically no – Sandy was a post-tropical storm when it made landfall in the US. It was dubbed Superstorm Sandy instead of Hurricane Sandy due to that technicality.
Ah. Thanks for the explanation, Rosenblatt.
As I recall, many said Sandy was a Northern Clipper in the revision. Wow, they sure cut all that red tape after Obama hugged Christie and made his promise. They are still trying to settle thousands of claims.
you recall incorrectly. first, the storm came from the south – if anything, it would be considered a southern clipper, not a northern clipper. anyway, is was not a clipper system. when it made landfall in the US it was just a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds. rosenblatt was correct
Sandy was revised to a mid latitude Nor’Easter so no it was not a Hurricane even though they said it was before they said it was not.
Thanks Agent.
sandy started in the tropics, so it could not have been a nor’easter or a northern clipper, as both of those terms indicate a storm that began in the north. you are still wrong and rosenblatt is still right – sandy was a post-tropical storm with hurricane force winds when it made landfall in the US.
This is bullshit rhetoric. Sandy was a hurricane, but was no longer classified that at landfall. This is relevant in insurance, because many deductibles have provisions that include hurricanes, but not post-tropical storms; however for bullshit, conspiracy theory, climate change denial it is irrelevant. There hurricane force winds, as well as damage from the storm while it was still officially classified as a hurricane, so as far as insurance is concerned it could be argued for some on the coast that their damage was in fact by a hurricane, and hurricane deductibles apply. Again though, completely irrelevant when it comes to conspiracy theories.
On top of that, it is unlikely a tropical storm classified as a hurricane would still be a “hurricane” when it landed that far north, but the outcome and causes are the same. This moronic line of denialism also ignores increased hurricane activity which has occurred around the world, and have not made landfall largely due to random chance.
So, the narrative continues. Yeah, I am disappointed. I’ll take a harder look at the author’s future remarks.
I see agenda 2030 is in full bloom at bloomberg. Everyone give up your light bulbs while the elite jet set around the globe. Serfs don’t need light bulbs or barbecues.
Ok Climate Change wackos, keep trying to convince us that man is responsible for every thunderstorm, hail storm, hurricane that strikes anywhere on the planet. All we need to do is spend $80 Trillion across the Globe to reduce carbon 1%, right? That ought to do the trick.
nice try, but nobody has ever said that. your ignorance is astounding
We have seen dozens of articles in the past 7 years which said all the things that I mentioned. Your ignorance is astounding. By the way, the President said Climate Change is the most serious “national security” threat that this nation faces. His ignorance is astounding.
using my comment against me? wow, that’s really clever. i hope you didn’t strain your brain coming up with that reply agent.
i agree with you that climate change isn’t the most serious national security threat that the president claimed it was.
that said, you’re still 100% wrong that the climate change “wackos” are attributing every single weather event to climate change. i bet you can’t even find one article that says that.
The satellites that have been orbiting the Earth for the last 17 years have not noted an increase in the Earth’s temperature AT ALL. Gee, how could that possibly be when 97% of the scientists (who are all receiving grants from the government to do their research and what have you on the nonexistent warming of the planet)say that the Earth is heating up?
I just don’t understand how this could be? Those satellites must need to be serviced. LOL
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/04/satellite-data-shows-no-global-warming-for-nearly-19-years/
Sorry, I was wrong, it’s been 19 years, mind you.
Lord Christopher Monckton is not a climate change expert, is not even a scientist, and has already been exposed as a liar and a crackpot, even by other climate change deniers!
CRACKPOT – ‘Monckton was described by fellow skeptic James Delingpole as “another hatchet job”‘
CRACKPOT – Back in the 80s he said he wanted every member of the population to be blood-tested every month for AIDS, and said if someone tested positive to isolate them compulsorily, immediately, and permanently.
LIAR – In 2014, he reported that homosexuals had an average of 500-1,000 partners in their lifetime, and that some had as many as 20,000
LIAR – ‘In 2006 he referred to himself as “a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature” in a letter to US Senators, and has said he was “a member of the Upper House but without the right to sit or vote.” The House of Lords authorities have said Monckton is not and never has been a member and that there is no such thing as a non-voting or honorary member of the House. In July 2011 the House of Lords took the “unprecedented step” of publishing online a cease and desist letter to Monckton from the Clerk of the Parliaments, which concluded, “I am publishing this letter on the parliamentary website so that anybody who wishes to check whether you are a Member of the House of Lords can view this official confirmation that you are not.”‘
I am sorry, but I cannot believe a word that guy says about anything. His track record of speaking the truth is atrocious.
Always Amazed, you have no idea what you are talking about. Look at any chart of average world temperatures. The idiot you cite has been debunked so often, and so thoroughly an actual thinking person would be embarrassed to cite him. Here is one simple one. He cherry-picks by choosing one extremely hot year. If you go back one year further, you have a string of historically warm years, but he, and you, do not do that, because you are ideological frauds. Look at the chart under the section of the fraud you mention:
http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/16/eight-pseudo-scientific-climate-claims-debunked-by-real-scientists/
This year is shaping up to be by far the warmest year on record. Of course you will explain that away like you did when you idiots said Hurricane Sandy doesn’t count, because it started just a little too far south, as if that matters, or as if landfall over a few years in a specific region is an accurate, coherent, or logical measure of the number of hurricanes or the temperature worldwide long-term.
Ben, good point. Our wonderful EPA would like everyone to stop cooking on their back yard BBQ pits because it is harmful to the environment and will cause “devastating” Global Warming. I wonder how many of our leftist bloggers still use their BBQ pits to cook their free range chicken and Tofu. By the way, the light bulbs are now the Obama bulbs which cost a whole lot more and if they ever break, the chemicals in them are very harmful.
If you bought one Obama bulb for $20 and it lasts 20 years, that’s cheaper than buying an old bulb for $5 that you have to replace every 5 years. And we haven’t even talked about the energy savings you’d get from the Obama bulb over the old school ones too.
The Obama bulb is more expensive when initially purchased, I agree, but it’s a cheaper solution over the long run.
FYI — “CFLs typically contain from three to five milligrams of mercury—about one hundredth of the mercury content of the older [bulbs]…
“Researchers have found that…even if left unattended for 24 hours, a broken bulb will release from 0.04 to 0.7 milligrams of mercury….
“The researchers found that it would take weeks for the amount of mercury vapor in the room to reach levels that would be hazardous to a child”
math fail acknowledged and revised here:
Obama bulb = $20 purchase & lasts for 20 years
Obama bulb cost per year = $1
Regular bulb = $5 purchase & last for 4 years
Regular bulb cost per year = $1.25
Regardless of the #s used, the point is the same: Obama bulbs cost more than the old school bulbs up front, but the Obama bulbs are cheaper over the long-term
Literally the entire scientific community attributes at most 30% of all climate change to human impact. Climate Change could possibly account for some of the increased amount of hurricane damages (highly debatable), but how can this be constructively addressed with 70% of the problem out of reach?
If climate change is the reason, why have the hurricanes decreased drastically in recent years. I remember doing hurricane duty on my September birthdays frequently in the 80s and 90s but that is not the case any more.
Aven, I think it is called El Nino and La Nina, both naturally occurring weather patterns which have nothing to do with man and CO2 emissions. Many scientist now predict we will have Global Cooling by 2030, not Global Warming. We have already seen some snow falling in the Great Lakes so this may be another heavy winter for snow and cold.
Once again Agent – we’re talking about GLOBAL temperatures here, not what it may be doing in one small section of our country. Take 2014 – record snow in the north east USA and the great lakes were frozen during the winter, but GLOBALLY it was the hottest year on record.
Rosenblatt, try Googling – Global Cooling. Several articles for your reading pleasure. It will give you all the empirical evidence you need that the planet is cooling, not getting hotter.
Exactly, Agent.
Hey Always, ever notice how the Progressive Environmentalists discount any other evidence that doesn’t line up with their Global Warming failed science agenda. They would rather believe Obama and Gore, two of the biggest liars ever on the public stage. I still laugh at Gore’s prediction that the polar caps would be gone by 2014. Their only solution is to institute Carbon taxing which will further hurt business and individuals.
You talking about me, Agent? Did you forget I agreed with BS in a previous article that the measurements used by NOAA were far from perfect and left a lot of holes to fill?
Yeah, you probably don’t remember because it doesn’t fit your belief that everyone who disagrees with you has their fingers in their ears, their eyes closed, doesn’t know right from wrong, is unreasonable, and is always out to attack you.
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Empirical measurements of the Earth’s heat content show the planet is still accumulating heat and global warming is still happening. Surface temperatures can show short-term cooling when heat is exchanged between the atmosphere and the ocean, which has a much greater heat capacity than the air.
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“There was definitely a slowdown in warming from around 2000-2012 centered in the Pacific, but leading to a slowing of warming over the Northern Hemisphere,” said Mann. That local event barely impacted the global mean temperature at the time.
“There certainly is variability from year to year, and one can find periods in the record where there are small changes,” but over the long term, the world is still warming at an alarming rate, Karl said.
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That’s what my research found. Care to post anything to support your argument Agent, or you’re just going to reply with “Rosenblatt, you just don’t know how to google properly” like you’ve done in the past and not add anything to support to your comment?
…it may have been IM and not BS, but my point is the same.
Rosenblatt, you have selective memory. It was integrity, not BS that handed you your head on the last article on Climate Change after you kept trotting out your fake numbers on Global Warming.
As I recall, you had to back pedal and agree with him. Why did you go back to your familiar “warming theory”
I have never back-pedaled from my stance, Agent. I’ve always said — (1) the earth is warming based on global temperature measurements (2) while man may not be the sole cause of this trend, we’re certainly contributing to it and (3) regardless of the cause, we need to figure out how to ensure the habitability of the planet for generations to come.
Yes, I have Agent. The second you disagree with their point of view, even though the evidence proves them wrong, they go off the deep end. They must be loosing their minds over the ice caps still being around and actually increasing in size, mind you. And didn’t Gore say that Florida would be under water by now? Geeze, I have friends who live there and they are all alive and well.
AA – I have tried explaining this to Agent and he never seems to get it. Let me ask you a question as it relates to your ice cap comment.
As you know, there are two poles on our planet and therefore two places where polar ice caps exist.
(I’m making up these numbers, but bear with me) If the antarctic ice cap increased from 200km to 400km over the past 50 years and the arctic ice cap decreased from 400km to 100km over the past 50 years – would you agree that polar ice caps as a whole have decreased by 100km?
My point is simple: if the antarctic ice cap has increased by a lower amount than the arctic ice cap has decreased, you can’t say the ice caps as a whole are increasing in size.
If you want, check out this graph for a visual of the point I’m making. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/27/climate-skeptics-think-you-shouldnt-worry-about-melting-polar-ice-heres-why-theyre-wrong/
I’m sorry – that link took you to the main article with many different graphs. Here’s a link solely for the chart I’m talking about as it relates to ice caps
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/polar_trend_graphs_1979-2013.png
Always, I have some good and funny info for you. Today was the first day Hilliary was testifying before the House on Benghazi. One of her first statements was – I didn’t have a computer in my office during Benghazi. Of course she didn’t, she didn’t use a government provided computer since she thought her Personal Computer was “allowed” and had her info on that Blackberry or tablet, you know the one where all the info was scrubbed from?
It is not unusual for people serving in the highest levels of public office to forgo a computer in their office.
why wouldn’t anyone at least acknowledge that having 7 1/2 billion people using fossil fuels at a faster pace than anytime in history would have an impact on the condition of our atmosphere?
I believe that, and I dislike Obama and his policies.
I also don’t like Obama and think more of his policies and promises have failed than worked (Gitmo was supposed to be closed years ago, right?) and I am with you here too – while man may not be the sole reason we’re seeing the change, it’s naive for us to think we haven’t at least contributed to the situation. Regardless of what is causing the changes, we should do everything within our power to keep the planet habitable for our human ancestors.
Rosenblatt, finally a reasonable post from you. The vast majority of Obama’s policies have failed by the way. His general’s have told him repeatedly that Putin was his biggest security threat and he automatically goes right back to his Climate Change agenda. That is idiotic, sorry!
What do you propose to do about man’s contribution to the situation? Do you propose to send Al Gore to China, Japan, India and read them the riot act on their pollution? The last deal Obama made with China had them start addressing pollution issues in 2030 while Obama promised to cut by 25% by 2020. Is that a fair deal or is it another example of Obama leading from behind?
All my posts are reasonable – you just think I’m being unreasonable if I voice an opinion that differs from yours even slightly.
Rosenblatt, I don’t know why I expected an answer on what you propose to do about man’s contribution to the situation. Instead, you give me pablum and dodge as usual.
I don’t know why you’re upset – I simply took a page out of the “how to post on IJ like Agent does” book. You asked a reasonable and direct question, so I ignored it and wrote whatever I wanted to. That’s how you respond to my questions, so I’m just treating you the way you treat others, albeit with less personal attacks and rhetoric.
More, in this information age, it is now accepted by all officials to send and receive emails. We have seen many scandals erupt from the use of them. Remember the IRS, Lois Lerner. When a high level public official like the Secretary of State and her peons were told to use the official government server for business and they disregard that completely, use their own unsecure server 30,000 or more times, then try to have it scrubbed and hide the info from investigators, there is something terribly wrong with that picture. Hilliary is as nasty as they come.
Also, Africa has lost most of its forest due to the slaughter of the beautiful Elephants who are the keepers of the forests. They will be extinct in our lifetime along with the rhinos. The forest produce the air that we breath. There was more CO2 on this planet long before man ever made his appearance.
You the guy who used a Daily Caller link? Did you bother to read it? It quoted Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. He is not a scientist. He’s tried to pass himself off as a member of The House of Lords. He’s not. And he claimed he had been named a Nobel Peace Laureate. He wasn’t This guy has as much expertise in Climatology as you do. If you ever want to be taken seriously, I wouldn’t mention The Daily Caller.
It seems a lot (but not all) of the climate change skeptics are more than willing to believe anyone who writes about the climate not warming, but they refuse to believe anything written by the actual scientists who have studied the topic in depth.
Sorry Rosenblatt, we thought you had learned your lesson from integrity in the prior article when he shot you down. That didn’t last long, apparently.
I forgive you Agent – because you’re wrong about Integrity “shooting me down”, you’re wrong that I changed my thoughts on the matter, and because I am used to you ignoring reality and history when you post.
Reading these comments was good for a laugh as usual. Lefties preaching climate change while ignoring anything contradictory to their “beliefs” A belief is NOT evidence.
The fact that the solution to this “problem” will involve taxes, tells you all you need to know about it. I love how we’re being brainwashed to believe we should cut our carbon footprint by the very same people flying around in private jets, burning more fuel in one trip than most of us use in a year! Taxes…that’ll fix it..just like all the other problems the govt created, then later fixed through higher taxes. I’m sure they’ll be “temporary” too, until they’re permanent.
It’s amazing (sad really) that posters such as “agent” are naïve enough to fall for this narrative. Hey Agent, do you have a “ready for Hillary” or “feel the bern” bumper sticker on your prius? LOL
The fact that the solution to this “problem” will involve taxes, tells you all you need to know about it. I love how we’re being brainwashed to believe we should cut our carbon footprint by the very same people flying around in private jets, burning more fuel in one trip than most of us use in a year…
It’s amazing (sad really) that posters such as “agent” are naïve enough to fall for this narrative. Hey Agent, do you have a “ready for Hillary” or “feel the bern” bumper sticker on your prius? LOL
…I’m trying to decide if this is sarcasm, trolling, or that you just didn’t actually read the comments?
Hey BS & Joker, it will be a “cold day in July” before I ever have a bumper sticker for Hilliary or the Communist Sanders. I would just as soon they be led off in handcuffs. They don’t have Biden to worry about now. I guess he didn’t have the stomach to challenge along with Webb who quit the other day. We are talking about the new Democratic Socialist Party now.
That’s why I said what I did, Agent.
Considering his comment implies that he’s anti-climate change, but then takes a swipe at you for being for it, it has me questioning if it was supposed to be sarcasm/trolling or if he didn’t actually read the comments, like he said he did.
cold days in july happen ALL THE TIME in the southern hemisphere. what address should I send your bumper stickers to?
Sorry to disappoint you confused. You sure are confused about a lot of things, aren’t you? Texas, to your great surprise is not in the southern hemisphere. Did you ever take geography in school? Apparently not. By the way, we average in the 90’s in July and we don’t consider that Global Warming. Are you located in the great Blue State north which is getting snow in the Great Lakes in October?
i know where texas is you idiot.
you never said ‘cold day in july in texas’. all you said was cold day in july, and i replied saying there are tons of cold days in july, just not in this hemisphere.
do a better job of writing what you really mean to say the next time you post. not everyone here is a mind reader and knows what you meant to say but never wrote
Hey Still Confused, everyone but you got what I said and didn’t seem to have a problem with it. You just are spoiling for a fight. You are merely a bad “word parser” and Rosenblatt can’t hold a candle to you.
I wonder if he will call you out for name calling. You are one arrogant poster.
Hey Agent – remember your post from Monday??
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2015/10/15/385109.htm/?comments
Agent says: “As the mean spirited Nebraskan says: Just go away – as a monitor.”
You can’t tell me to go away as a monitor and then expect me to continue to be the monitor.
Catch-22 for me: I call people out and you reply with “go away” or I don’t call people out and you reply with “why aren’t you calling people out?”
Pick a stance and stick with it.
Do you want me to call people out for swears and/or personal attacks or do you want me to go away as a monitor? You cannot choose both.
Agent,
Please define “communist” for the class and then tell us how ANY of Bernie’s platforms are such. Pro tip – Democratic socialist is not equal to communist.
…like I said initially
That’s all well and good, but do you have any suggestions on which lottery numbers I should play this week? :)
Rosenblatt, I recommend that you not play the lottery at all. Do you not realize the odds of winning are astronomical? I hope you don’t play in Illinois. Their latest scandal is that they can’t pay off anything more than $600 since they seem to have an ongoing budget crisis brought on by their Progressive long term Democratic leadership in the legislature. No wonder FFA moved to Wisconsin.
My comment was a joke, Agent, but I won’t waste my time trying to explain humor to you because that would detract from a very important discussion we need to have:
Remember your post from Monday?
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2015/10/15/385109.htm/?comments
Agent says: “As the mean spirited Nebraskan says: Just go away – as a monitor.”
You can’t tell me to go away as a monitor and also expect me to continue to be the monitor (as you did above in response to confused calling you an idiot).
Catch-22 for me: I call people out and you reply with “go away” or I don’t call people out and you reply with “why aren’t you calling people out?”
Pick a stance and stick with it.
Do you want me to call people out for swears and/or personal attacks or do you want me to go away as a monitor? You cannot choose both.
Rosenblatt, I am now convinced beyond “any” doubt whose side you are on. I am now going to impose a moratorium on replying to you for the near future or maybe longer. If I were you, I would see someone about your word parsing problem. It is annoying and despicable.
Agent,
Can you please put a moratorium on ALL of your posts, especially anything to do with economics and/or politics?
You and bob both need to just go away.
while you are at it agent, please include me on your ‘will-not-respond-to’ list. i look forward to not hearing back from you
This is a simple matter I’m asking you to clarify for me, Agent.
Either you don’t want me to call out people like you wrote on Monday or you do want me to keep doing it like you said over the past few weeks.
I am not taking sides. I am merely asking you which of the two incongruent demands you’ve made of me over the past few weeks you want me to follow.
Agent, get a sense of humor…all you’re doing is proving how angry and defensive you are about, well, most everything. Lighten up, dude.
Rosenblatt, I appreciate your rational approach to most things, but I am not sure why you continue to bang your head on the desk in trying to get Agent to agree that he did or did not say something. Ask the question of him once – chances are good that if he responds, he won’t answer the question but deflect. Don’t make yourself look small by ‘beating the dead horse’. We already have enough of that from Agent. Please take this in the spirit intended – I’m on your side.
Now I’ll just wait for the attack by Agent.
I hear you, Thursday Thoughts. I’ll certainly try to do a better job going forward. Everyone has room for improvement; I appreciate your constructive criticism and definitely will take your comments to heart.
Thursday Thoughts, I have no need to attack you. You can believe what you want, you can read all the attacks on me by the Progressive left on any blog and then you can decide whether they have been fair to me. If you think them to be fair, that tells me all I need to know about your persuasion.
Agent, please at least be self-aware; the majority of the attacks are instigated by you, and are usually very angry and often without provocation. I don’t believe anyone should be attacking others on this blog, but your commentary typically stands out as the most angry, negative, deflective, and labeling. My thoughts on your commentary and actions are not political in nature at all – I am not a Progressive Leftist, etc. – I just find your posts some of the most hateful on this blog. This is, after all, just a little blog that’s supposed to be about insurance related articles and not intended to cure the nation’s state of affairs.
Thursday, why am I not surprised at your latest comment? You apparently didn’t read very far or get a good sampling. Just today, the leftist element stole my moniker yet again to post their liberal trash and try to paint me in a bad light.
By the way, I will continue posting and calling out all these Progressive dufuses and will not knuckle under to you or any of them, so you can get off my back now. It won’t do you any good.
‘Just today, the leftist element stole my moniker yet again to post their liberal trash and try to paint me in a bad light.’
when and where did this happen? which article? which post?
This article is vindicated by the facts. The most powerful hurricane we’ve ever recorded is poised to devastate Mexico. The 2nd strongest typhoon ever recorded wrecked the Philippines just 2 years ago. If you can’t see that the storms are getting more intense and the interval between major storms is decreasing, then you just aren’t paying attention.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/americas/hurricane-patricia/index.html
Dave, sorry to report that Patricia was not the most devastating storm we have seen. Only about $200 million in damages and no loss of life reported. I think the Mexican mountains really tore this storm apart.
You don’t have to be sorry Agent, Dave never said it was the most devastating storm! He’s is right that Patricia was the most powerful storm humans have ever recorded (200+ mph sustained winds).