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re: Our favorite scientist, Bill Nye on CNN saying floods caused by...
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:10 am to BoostAddict
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:10 am to BoostAddict
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yep, you guessed it, climate change. Oh and coastal erosion.
Dude is talking out of his arse. Whether climate is real or not, it likely didn't cause a low pressure system to stall out over LA for 3 days. He really hurts their message saying every weather event is caused by climate change.
I really don't like that smug a-hole.
Anybody who politicizes this flood by blaming "climate change" can promptly eat my a-hole
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Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:10 am to BoostAddict
Here's the clip
They were talking about coastal erosion and the sinking of new orleans
LINK
It's been a pretty awful El Niño cycle
They were talking about coastal erosion and the sinking of new orleans
LINK
It's been a pretty awful El Niño cycle
This post was edited on 8/23/16 at 10:14 am
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:10 am to TigerGman
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If it's a 500 year flood then it's to be expected every 500 years
That's not what a 500 year event means
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:11 am to Salmon
Agreed, so it's a given Bill Nye is the worst perpetrator of all since he's the one that started all this mess with his lack of expertise on the subject. Shame on him for perpetuating ignorance. Kudos to OP.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:12 am to Muice
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That's not what a 500 year event means
Explain please.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:13 am to eScott
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What does Beakman have to say?
Thank you.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:15 am to Cole Beer
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"Science guy"...pfft whatever.
FIFY
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:15 am to BoostAddict
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Dude is talking out of his arse
I would imagine Bill Nye's reasons for why this could be contributed to climate change are better than your reasons as to why climate change had no impact.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:18 am to TigerGman
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That's not what a 500 year event means
Explain please.
LA Times explanation
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Technically the measurement is a probability. A 100-year flood means that there is one chance in 100 of a flood occurring in each year. A 500-year flood means there is 0.2% chance of the flooding or rain event occurring each year and a 1,000-year event has a 0.1% chance of happening in any year.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:19 am to Muice
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If it's a 500 year flood then it's to be expected every 500 years
That's not what a 500 year event means
It kind of does. For any given 500 year span of time, you would expect one 500-year flood event.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:20 am to TigerGman
Go roll a dice 6 times, by the 6th roll you've rolled each number once right?!
ETA: I'm an idiot there's only 6 faces
ETA: I'm an idiot there's only 6 faces
This post was edited on 8/23/16 at 10:25 am
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:21 am to Korkstand
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For any given 500 year span of time, you would expect no more than one 500-year flood event.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:23 am to Muice
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Go roll a dice 8 times, by the 8th roll you've rolled each number once right?!
No but if I roll it 8000 times I bet each comes up pretty much 1/6th of the time.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:23 am to Muice
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For any given 500 year span of time, you would expect no more than one 500-year flood event.
Now THAT is totally incorrect.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:24 am to Tigeralum2008
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He's more educated than you in ME
fify
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:26 am to BoostAddict
Well he's right that global warming plays a big hand in freak weather events like this one. I don't understand why people get so pissed about something that is undeniably happening. The only thing up for debate is the cause and if we can do anything about it. I don't know if the cause is natural or not but calling people kooks for acknowledging a definite warming trend is dumber than thinking any change is possible without the Chinese getting onboard and that just isn't going to happen.
If he said coastal erosion played any part of this, then, well that's retarded.
If he said coastal erosion played any part of this, then, well that's retarded.
This post was edited on 8/23/16 at 10:27 am
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:27 am to Korkstand
Yeah its been a while since i took any hydrology classes you were right.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:29 am to Tigeralum2008
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Bill Nye earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. That's an Ivy League institution Nye holds several United States patents,[41] including one for ballet pointe shoes[35][42] and another for an educational magnifying glass created by filling a clear plastic bag with water.[43][44] From 2001 to 2006, Nye served as Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor at Cornell University.[11][45] Nye supported the 2006 reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union.[46]
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He's smarter than you
But he is still not a scientist, and nothing in his CV would make him any more of a authority on climate change than the person that reads the weather report on your local AM station.
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:29 am to BoostAddict
I said this in another thread. I do subsurface investigations throughout Louisiana and have seen plenty of evidence of prior flooding events from hundreds and thousands of years ago. Rivers flood, it is what it is. I'm not saying that climate change didn't have a minute effect on it, but clearly he's using this to push his own liberal agenda
ETA: Degree in Geology and currently work as a Geologist
ETA: Degree in Geology and currently work as a Geologist
This post was edited on 8/23/16 at 10:30 am
Posted on 8/23/16 at 10:41 am to Navajo61490
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When averaged together, changing climate extremes can be traced to rising global temperatures, increases in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, and changes in atmospheric circulation. Warmer temperatures directly influence heat waves and increase the moisture available in the atmosphere to supply extreme precipitation events.
Expanding sub-tropical deserts swelling out from the equator are creating larger areas of sinking, dry air, thus expanding the area of land that is subject to drought. The expansion of this sub-tropical circulation pattern also is increasing heat transport from the tropics to the Arctic and pushing mid-latitude storm tracks, along with their rainfall, to higher latitudes.
C2ES publication discussing climate change and its effect on precipitation events
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