if we don't have enough rain, the world's eighth largest economy will collapse. Dear God, Bring it. I may even go out and get a new umbrella. The last one I had, I gave to a homeless guy. Please let it rain.

because it doesn't explain what's happening in the North Atlantic which also effects North American weather. I'm not saying El Niño does not exist but it is part of the bigger picture they are not talking about.

it is hazardous to stick your neck out.

The current economic system doesn't benefit the earth's current bio-system nor 99% of earthlings living on it..
A ''Childhood's End'' to the current paradigm of thinking is necessary in order to find new solutions and thinking to what is going on

The only thing that really is 'too big to fail' and needs a bailout is the planet we live on. This is the only so called Manhattan project that we should have our main focus on.

When speaking globally, you do know that you are likely part of the 1%, correct?

According to the Global Rich List, a website that brings awareness to worldwide income disparities, an income of $32,400 a year will allow you to make the cut. Using current exchange rates, that amounts to roughly:

29,100 euros
2.1 million Indian rupees, or
200,900 Chinese yuan


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but that doesn't negate my point.

Makes one wonder just exactly what some people I see are so proud of themselves for. You helped make things worse? Well, bully for you. Here's a medal.

for helping our corporation on the bottom dollar.

Mid-level Mngmt too! Gotta have more at the top!

It's change or die, and take the biosphere down with us.

The illustration shows a couple of things. One is that the warm water extends considerably further west than it did in 1997/98, the other is that the northern Pacific is quite a lot warmer than it was in 1997/98. It is by no means unreasonable to expect that both of those things might have significant effects on the El Nino weather patterns world wide, if nothing else perhaps shifting the track of its impact.

For instance, northern California is normally drier in an El Nino year, while southern California is wetter. In early fall that patter was pretty evident, and San Diego got well above normal rainfall, but in the last couple months storms have passed north of us, a couple have gone south of us, and the few that hit us have been pretty dry, so we are now below our average year-to-date rainfall. The snow packs in the north, on the other hand, are at 117% of normal for this date.

that cause all hurricanes has been abnormal thus
no hurricanes for the whole season but other patterns are creating new storms affecting Europe with hurricane force winds and flooding.

Yeah...... the world patterns are what we need to look at not just what is happening in one ocean.

we know enough to know radical change is needed. What most don't realize is that we actually have to fight greedy corporate assholes just to save our planet and every living thing on it!

We have a decent idea about what causes them in terms of immediate causes. They've been happening for a long time, and those causes haven't changed in nature--perhaps in intensity and frequency, but not in terms of what they are.

Prevailing winds, equatorial countercurrent, gravity, thermoclines and upwelling.

Now, accounting for the changes in intensity and frequency is the issue. While we can jump to all sorts of nifty conclusions, scientists don't. They leave it to the scientist-advocate, politician, and activists for those minor details.

Sure its happening ........ but we need to look at the bigger picture............

There are low lying areas of town that are always flooded when we have downpours--but it's usually from summer thunderstorms.
Yesterday the Fire/Rescue evacuated about 30 residents from two apartment complexes that sit right next to a creek that flooded.

There are photos of the flooding in the Triangle area--taken by local residents--here:

http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/15205462/