Saturday, September 24. 2005
The Funniest, Saddest and Scariest Mangled Statements by President George W. Bush
Monday, September 19. 2005
How Stupid Do They Think We Are?
New Wallpaper Section!
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Tuesday, September 13. 2005
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Thursday, September 8. 2005
Will global warming make hurricanes stronger?
With everything going on..this affects everyone..every where!
Will global warming make hurricanes stronger?
Scientists debate potential impact on future storm patterns
Climate change could make future hurricanes stronger, but whether the effect is measurable is still a matter of debate. It is also unknown whether it will change the total number of storms.
Kevin Trenberth from the National Center for Atmospheric Research claims that warmer oceans and increased moisture could intensify the showers and thunderstorms that fuel hurricanes.
"Trends in human-influenced environmental changes are now evident in hurricane regions," Trenberth said. "These changes are expected to affect hurricane intensity and rainfall, but the effect on hurricane numbers remains unclear. The key scientific question is how hurricanes are changing."
Sea-surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic — the breeding ground for most U.S. hurricanes — have been the warmest on record over the last decade. Across the globe, the amount of water vapor over the oceans has increased by about 2 percent since 1988.
Computer models show that these climate changes will push hurricane intensities toward extreme hurricanes, Trenberth said. Moreover, the added moisture in the air will produce heavier rains and increased flooding when the hurricanes make landfall.
Swamped by data
There is uncertainty, however, about how well the models account for all the inputs that might affect hurricane strength.
“In the models, an increase in sea surface temperature could make more intense systems,” said Philip Klotzbach, who was not involved in the present work. “But the models do not account for changes in wind patterns that might tend to tear apart hurricanes.”
Klotzbach said that the effect of global warming on hurricanes may end up being small. He said it is hard to notice any difference because the “signal gets swamped by year-to-year variability.”
According to Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, there is evidence for natural swings between high and low hurricane activity that extend for 25 to 40 years.
“The last 10 years have been busy for the U.S. — similar to what we experienced between the 1920s and 1960s,” Landsea said.
He thought that global warming could have an impact on hurricanes, but he quoted one study that predicted only a 5 percent change in wind speeds over 80 years due to increases in heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
“It doesn’t mean there is zero effect,” he said. “But that’s hardly measurable.”
Storm tracks
Even with large swings in one region, the total number of big storms across the globe each year does not change by much. Historically, when hurricane activity increased in the Atlantic, there was a corresponding decrease in typhoon activity in the Pacific, and vice versa, so the global hurricane frequency has remained steady over the years.
Klotzbach and William Gray, both of Colorado State University, have made hurricane forecasts for the Atlantic. The current 2005 predictions are 15 named storms (up to the letter M), of which eight are expected to become hurricanes. Four may become major hurricanes.
Not all of these storms will reach land. Predicting how storms will move is a highly uncertain endeavor, and may have little to do with global warming.
"There is no sound theoretical basis for drawing any conclusions about how anthropogenic climate change affects hurricane numbers or tracks, and thus how many hit land," Trenberth said
In 2004, four hurricanes struck Florida, and 10 tropical cyclones or typhoons hit Japan. These unprecedented numbers were at least partly due to large-scale circulation features that drove the events toward land.
The current work appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Wednesday, September 7. 2005
Come Play with me!
True Love - What's That?!
Has someone said " I Love You" and it seemed just words to you?
To some, that's all they are because they really haven't found it!
There are different types of love -
Friendship
Parental
Sibling
and more.....
True Love is not to be confused with crushes and infatuations....
those are merely a sense of feeling needed or wanted and can be damaging if it is not dealt with.
One has heard the fairy tales of a 'happily ever after'- a carriage shadowed by the setting sun, in which a couple embrace -
kissing away their adventure to step into a new life- one that will be proverbially perfect. This duo has gone through so
much together, and now triumphs. Yet the only power that had any sway, was their love.
Fate is oftentimes a very fickle creature, but she has another side- one that enjoys a good challenge, and a happy ending.
It is is because of this, that True Love was created.
Yes - True Love exists - that perfect someone - the person that completes your very being - and sets your heart free -
is out there, in the world… searching. It is very rare that the two halves of any puzzle find each other - but it happens.
Love is not seen or heard but felt....it is a sense of feeling rather than seeing or hearing.
It's a feeling so intense that you find yourself thinking of that person in everything you do, go, and say.
Freedom to be yourself and yet still have that special someone right there to accept and love you as you are.
True Love is not a thought but yet a feeling deep in your gut...
one that allows you to feel and sense each other no matter where you both are.
It is that special dream for those who are searching - for those who have already found, I salute all of you.
Life's Ups & Downs
Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind. Life can be blissful and happy and free.
Life can put beauty in the things that you see ...
Life can place challenges right at your feet. Life can make good of the hardships we meet. Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin. Life can reward those determined to win...
Life can be hurtful and not always fair. Life can surround you with people who care . Life clearly does offer its ups and its downs. Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns...
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad. Life is a mixture of happy and sad. SO...
Take the life that you have and give it your best. Think positive be happy let God do the rest. Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet. Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall. Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all. Take the love that you're given and return it with care. Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see. Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free. The idea here is simply to even the score. As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War.