Dealing With Weather issues by Ignoring Science

If the News is Bad, Ignore It…


Bush as president should know about what his scientists are doing. By the same token, if he did and cared, he would have done something to change the status quo.

And do it long before now.

But, of course, the only thing emanating from the White House are empty words that signify nothing…

Consider as president, Bush has access to some of the most powerful weather predicting tools. Consider the Weather Simulator, a giant array of literally hundreds of computers linked together in series constituting the most powerful computer system ever built capable of performing trillions of operations per second.

Scientists are using this kind of mega power to simulate future weather occurrences.

Amazingly, they have even been able to project with this poweful tool far into the future where they see two typhoons heading for the islands of Japan at the same time bringing death and despair much like a gypsy peers into a crystal ball—except this “crystal ball” is capable of performing amazing mathematical quantum leaps based on trend lines, real data and computer generated models.

Scientists have used the computer array to simulate a series of weather occurrences from drought to hurricanes, extended temperature rises and other potentially cataclysmic weather events based upon the hard data that already exists.

One of the first simulations conducted based on evidence of continued heating of the atmosphere demonstrates that the frequency of category five hurricanes will increase in not only frequency but severity—not good news for low-lying coastal areas.

In one simulation, they looked at New York in 2096 and predicted hurricanes reaching the City with thirty five foot tidal surges that is expected to flood the city, the subways, the tunnels leaving the city badly unprepared and virtually at a standstill not unlike what happened to New Orleans.

In simulations reflecting rising temperatures, the computer simulations demonstrated a whole range of interrelated and interdependent changes arising from temperature increases that may reach ten degrees Fahrenheit. Viewed as part of a system, the computers also show that the rising temperatures will also impact rain fall, producing related droughts that will have far reaching effects on crops and vegetation.

This kind of information should force our government to make the needs of the environment one of our highest priorities; but for the most part, the government takes quite the opposite position casting doubt on the work of the scientists and their findings connected with these and other weather related simulations and the resulting findings..

The ones who of course will ultimately pay the price are you and me.

But for the most part, the people who really care are already coping with more current issues like economic survival.

Ironic, considering that the WhiteHouse tells us that the economy is booming.
For whom?, one might ask….


Les Aaron