USA Today headline:
"Hurricane season may makespill worse."
...and the sub-header:
"But storms could also help clean up the oil."
Ahhh. Modern media...telling everyone exactly what they want to hear.
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The most puzzling quote in the article:
"None of the scenarios are good for the ecosystem. We've never dealt with anything like this before."
-Jim Edison, UConn Marine Meteorologist.
Sorry Jim, the article describes 2 previous events using this exact scenario...
Of course, this article points up the same issues I always get worked up over...Hurricane forecasting and crap job performance of Weather Forecasters.
(I wish I could be wrong more thn 50% of the time and still keep my job. Weather forecasting is definitely a case of style over substance.)
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For the record, they are citing "similar conditions to 2004, 2005 & 2008 when multiple storms battered the USA." and are calling for 15 storms, and 8 of them will be of hurricane strength.
TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Apparently they are ignoring 2007 and 2009 because those were years with exceptionally low numbers of hurricanes DESPITE the usual "worst hurricane season EVAH" predictions. I haven't heard the prediction for this year, but would expect it to be another "worst hurrican system EVAH" hysteria fest.
People are cynical about weather forecasting because more and more the media hypes the shit out of any possibility of a worse than normal storm.
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