Super storms = Doomsday?

Tigershark Wrote:

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> Thanks for that Bayern, i was about to start
> drinking my whisky collection, phew..... now i can
> savour the golden liquid for another 2000 years:)o

Pleasure TS, no rush squire.

Tigershark Wrote:

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> Thanks for that Bayern, i was about to start
> drinking my whisky collection, phew..... now i can
> savour the golden liquid for another 2000 years:)o


{snotklap to TS's head...rapid fire jab to thorax}... How does one 'savour' whiskey when it is still IN the bottle ???

Has it not rained seven or eight consecutive Fridays in Durban.

FC Wrote:

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> Has it not rained seven or eight consecutive
> Fridays in Durban.

FC

In about 20 days , we have seen the sun for about 4 days max.
Should be fine from tomorrow. It has to be in the upper 30 degrees for the next 2 days to dry out the course.

from BD:


National / Science & Environment


Predictions paint ‘dire picture’ of global warming in Africa, warns scientist

by Sue Blaine, 01 November 2012, 15:38 | 0 Comments






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Superstorms of the future could affect SA too, warns WWF

CLIMATE scientist Tessa Legg warned on Thursday of predictions that Africa would be the continent worst affected by the effects of global warming, and should brace itself for "superstorms" such as Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on the US Eastern seaboard on Tuesday.

Scientists predict storms will become more vicious as coastal water temperatures rise, pushing more water vapour into the atmosphere and boosting the power of storms such as Sandy. Sandy killed at least 45 people in nine US states, crippled transport, knocked out power for millions of people, and had catastrophe-forecasting companies saying the hurricane appeared to have caused twice or even three times the losses of last year’s Hurricane Irene.

"Although I would not go so far as to lay the blame squarely at the feet of global warming — you can’t narrow a weather event down to a single factor — there can be no doubt that the rising temperate in coastal waters contributed to the disaster.

"There is more water vapour in the atmosphere, which leads to heavier rains and an increased risk of freshwater flooding. In Hurricane Sandy’s case, global warming heated the water of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean (which has been systematically rising), which indirectly caused a more ferocious storm," said Ms Legg, who, together with former IBM consultant Tim James, created the Carbon Report, South Africa’s first online greenhouse-gas measurement and reporting "solution".

The World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA) has also warned South Africans the country is not exempt from "superstorms". Sandy broke several meteorological records, including the record for lowest pressure north of the Carolinas by six millibars, previously held by the Long Island Express of 1938, and multiple daily rainfall records, including new records at all three Washington area airports.

Scientists have predicted storms worldwide will occur more frequently and be more intense, said WWF-SA CEO Morné du Plessis.

South Africa has already experienced several damaging tropical cyclones, notably Cyclone Domoina that hit Southern Africa in early 1984, causing some of the most severe flooding the region has recorded. Domoina resulted in the loss of 214 human lives, and the lives of countless livestock and wildlife, and caused major geomorphological changes at the mouth of Lake St Lucia, where all man-made structures were obliterated.

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