[ExI] et tu, nova?

[William Flynn Wallace]

I would blame the people building expensive stuff right down at sea level.
spike


Those people don't care. Probably have more than one house here or there
(Winter in Florida; summer in Vermont).  Rich and insured - not looking for
handouts from the Red CRoss.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:15 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> NOVA is usually a carefully-researched science program, which I like.  But
> I noticed they worded this program in such a way to make Hurricane Ian
> sound like it was an extraordinarily large storm.  But it wasn’t.  It was a
> large storm at the time it happened to make landfall, and it happened to
> make landfall right where there were a lot of expensive homes, cars, boats
> and planes to destroy, which is why Ian, the second biggest storm this
> season, cost 50 billion in damage, while the biggest storm of 2022, Fiona,
> almost half again bigger than Ian, cost less than 3 billion in damage.
> Fiona did its thing out at sea.  Ian happened to hit land right where the
> rich and famous live.
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> Check out NOVA’s wording for their program.  Ian was certainly one of the
> most destructive storms to hit land in the USA, but the storm itself was
> not extraordinarily powerful.  It was a category 4 at its peak, which
> happened right as it made landfall.  But Fiona was a category 4 as well,
> and there are category 5 hurricanes which happen on average more often than
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> The 2022 season was off to a quiet start until a number of storms emerged
> in September, including Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful and
> destructive storms to ever make landfall in the U.S. Ian brought storm
> surge of up to 15 feet in some parts of Florida. Water is generally the
> deadliest component of a hurricane, and storm surge is responsible for
> nearly half of all hurricane deaths.
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> Part of Florida’s Gulf Coast is particularly vulnerable to storm surge
> because of its geography and proximity to warm tropical water. “Hurricanes
> derive their energy from warm ocean water,” James Marshall Shepherd,
> director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia,
> told NOVA. Not only are storm surges highly dangerous and unpredictable,
> they are likely to intensify with climate change.
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> Learn how storm surge forms and why it's so dangerous:  NOVA.
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> It appears that NOVA wants to blame global warming for people building
> expensive stuff where Ian happened to land.  I would blame the people
> building expensive stuff right down at sea level.
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