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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

It looks like the updated death toll for Irene reached 35, most seemingly from inland flooding. That's because it was such a slow moving storm it dropped a lot of rain. But you didn't hear the media talking about that much until after it was over. It was all about the storm surge that might affect the really rich people who can afford to live right on the water. I didn't hear anything about possible flooding in Vermont, but it's experienced the worst floods in a century. This just goes to show all the blustering about Irene was a political-media charade. It was a 72 hour orgy of alarmism pretending to be news. They were trying to make themselves appear important and useful to all the rich people on the coast. One blogger reports that there are no measurements of Irene actually being a hurricane. If they would have accurately and honestly reported this non-hurricane, maybe some of those people who died in inland flooding would have lived. As one commenter in this thread says:

"But if they had downgraded it before landfall, then no politicians could have claimed credit for avoiding the Katrina scenario. It’s unfortunate that weather has become so politicized."

Amen. Another commenter explains why the media and government goons are pretending this storm was a hurricane and a major hurricane at that:

"It’s been over 1000 days since a real hurricane has made landfall in the U.S. Dr. Maue’s information shows us the ACE values of total cyclones are decreasing.The whole CAGW argument hinges upon our climate/weather events getting worse, not better. If a bit of warming is beneficial for us, (and it is) then the public doesn’t care. But, conversely, if they can show how hurricanes hitting the U.S. are increasing….. then they’ll correlate it to CO2 and CAGW.
In this particular storm, there were a few other groups with a vested interest in it being worse than it was. The media hyped it like no tomorrow…… people even suggested we needed a new Cat6! The current administration also wanted it to be worse than what it was, for two reasons. One, they wanted to demonstrate and contrast between the last administration, and two, we’ve recently raised the debt ceiling and that money is burning a hole in their pocket, they’d like another stimulus package but, a rebuilding package would have worked for them, as well."

It's a perfect storm of political interests. To illustrate the mentality of these global warming frauds, one wrote:

"It is doubtful that Irene will even cough up eight bodies..."

They root for deaths that will help them advance their political agendas. And it's an utter disgrace that political activist posing as scientist James Hansen is still being paid by taxpayers.

POLITICS:

Michelle Bachmann claims God is using natural disasters as a way to send a message to politicians, then later claims it was a joke. The joke's on us that that woman can get elected.