We have heard that global warming has caused hot weather, cold weather, ice melts, increases in ice, more intense hurricanes, more hurricanes, higher water levels, droughts, fires, floods, blizzards, heat waves, penguin deaths, polar bear deaths, frog deaths, social strife, disease, decreases in food supplies, crime, wars, and famine.

So the question is: what can’t be blamed on global warming?
Yankee S. I disagree. Global warming caused the snow in New England for the playoff game against the Raiders, leading to Brady fumbling and leading to brain-freeze by the referees. This, in turn, led to the "tuck rule" debacle, which handed the game back to the Pats, allowing them eventually to win their Super Bowl. So without global warming to cause the blizzard, the Pats would not have won it that year.

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Why do some Christians (note I used "some" so I don’t want to hear any defensive whining) point to judgement from God when natural or human disasters happen in places like New York or California or New Orleans etc. I am already hearing some saying the fires in California are some kind of judgement from God etc.

But far more natural disasters have and still happen in the Bible Belt by way of floods, tornadoes, drought etc. In addition, there are lots of Christians in places like New York, California and New Orleans.

By your reasoning, why is God punishing them as well?

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can u help me pls
my H.W. is to write this news story in a childish version and i have no clues how to do this, so can u pls write it for me or give me some clues how to write that.

"The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself
killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability to organise rapid relief is killing tens
of thousands more. More than 1mn people are exposed to hunger and disease
and, with the rain and hurricane seasons approaching, are vulnerable to
further hazards.
Even an economy as impoverished as Haiti’s is a complex system dependent
on trade between rural and urban areas, transport, electricity, port services,
and government functions. Haiti’s economy worked badly in the past, and was
still reeling from four hurricanes in 2008 when the earthquake struck.
The fact that the quake hit the capital and demolished every centre of
social activity, destroyed the systems upon which daily urban life depends. Millions
of people are now without livelihoods and the means for survival.
The first stage in an effective response, the first three or four weeks, must focus on rescuing survivors and stabilising supplies of food, water, medical services, and shelter for the population. Neither Haiti nor the world was properly equipped for this, and tens of thousands will die needlessly. The world’s emergency-response systems – especially for impoverished countries in zones that are vulnerable to earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, hurricanes, and floods – needs upgrading.
After just a month or so, the emergency phase will give way to a decades-long struggle for recovery and long-term development. Haiti must avoid a prolonged period of tent cities in which people are mere refugees. But where should displaced people – numbering hundreds of thousands, and perhaps more than a million – live? How should they be provided with food, water, health care, and shelter? And how can they begin to contribute to the revival of basic economic life?
The economy will have a simple structure in the coming years, with most economic activities focused in five sectors: smallholder, or peasant, agriculture; reconstruction; port services and light manufacturing; local small-scale trade; and public services, including healthcare and education. The key challenge is to support these five sectors in order to combine short-term relief with long-term reconstruction and development.
First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities. This will enable hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return to their village communities and live from farming. With fertiliser, improved seeds, small-scale irrigation, rapid training and extension services, and low-cost storage silos, Haiti’s food production could double or triple in the next few years, sustaining the country and building a new rural economy.
Reconstruction – of roads, buildings, and water and sanitation systems – will employ tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Haitian construction workers, and boost the regeneration of towns. The World Food Programme can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food-for-work programs oriented to construction projects.
Haiti’s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble. Large-scale capital investment will also be needed to re-equip the ports and to re-establish a power grid.
Recovery will also require re-establishing at least a small-scale manufacturing sector. Haiti, like its next-door neighbour, the Dominican Republic, once created jobs in port facilities, including production of clothing, baseballs, and other light-manufacturing items. Those jobs disappeared in the 1990’s, when the US imposed a trade embargo on Haiti as part of an effort to re-establish democracy. Democracy returned, but the economy was destroyed.
Other countries have risen from the rubble of natural disaster and war, and Haitican do the same over the next five to 10 years. For the next decade, however, and especially for the next five years, there will be no escape from the need to rely on international financing, and mainly grant assistance, to finance the rebuilding effort. The world has spent heavily in Haiti before, but very ineffectively. This time, it must be done right.
A clear strategy is needed to bolster the key sectors discussed above. Each sector requires a five-year recovery strategy with a clear budget and clear lines of partnership and responsibility linking the Haitian government, non-governmental organisations, and institutional donors, especially governments and international agencies.
The second key to successful reconstruction is to harmonise the international response. There are probably 40 or more official organisations from abroad, if not more, already engaged in the recovery effort. In addition, there are hundreds, if not tho

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to me this is the way nature works. we complain about all the horriblness in the world, but why can’t it just be the way its ssupposed to be? there is a reason why we came to the thought of making a nuclear bomb or a car or have a supply of oil underground,etc… this is part of the evolution of humans. volcanos explode and cause havoc, the ocean floods the earth, hurricanes,etc. thats nature. and wee’re part of it. humans are simply like a volcano. we may be destroying the planet here over time,but seems to me the way its supposed to go. otherwise,it would take another direction,right?

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1. Where is the safest place to wait out a tornado? (1 point)
In a ditch
In a car
In a basement or cellar
Close to a window
2. Which natural disaster does the National Weather Service track? (1 point)
Hurricanes
Floods
Blizzards
Earthquakes
3. What is the first step in taking emergency action? (1 point)
Identifying the signs of an emergency
Taking action
Calling for help
Use universal precautions
4. Which is NOT a step to take in an emergency situation? (1 point)
Taking Action
Calling for Help
Turning off electrical appliances
Providing Care Until Help Arrives
5. What is the best step to take if the victim is unresponsive and unconscious? (1 point)
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
antiseptic ointment
check the throat
Heimlich maneuver

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Ever since Hurricane Katrina most people throughout the United States acted like(and still acts like to this day)that New Orleans is the only place to flood when there’s other cities like Miami and Houston that floods.

And the real reason why New Orleans had flooded because of the Levees that weren’t properly built and was disrupted by Katrina’s storm surge.

And there’s other places in the U.S. that has Natural Disasters also: California has Earthquakes, the Midwest has Tornados, New York City can get hit by a Hurricane and that city is not prepared for a hurricane, and Seattle has Volcanos and Tsunamis.

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Do you live near it? How has it affected you personally?

I live in one of the towns in Iowa experiencing moderate flooding. Two roads in and out of town are closed. The heavy rain has really affected things at my house because our driveway floods and that means getting up when I hear rain. Also, our backyard is saturated, and we have a septic field. It’s meant using the plumbing as little as possible. Showering and flushing is fine, but any more than that isn’t!
Here’s a picture of my backyard. It’s normally dry with NO water.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2571134529_c8f624de68.jpg?v=0

Tonight we’re supposed to get even more rain and possible tornadoes. How’s the weather in your town?
My hometown is Des Moines, and the flooding there is supposed to be just as bad, if not worse as 1993, when we lost water for 12 days. Luckily this time the water plant is nowhere near being flooded because they overbuilt the levees. A lot of cities around Central Iowa are getting hit hard, and for me what’s sad is in New Hartford, they were devastated by an F5 tornado two weeks ago, and now they’re pretty much under water. I feel bad for those folks!

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That’s what’s really happening. It’s the INSTABILITY of the weather that is the hallmark of climate change. Look at the storms that have hit the US this winter. A tornado in Washington state, a serious drought in the S.E.,US, wild swings in temps ,floods and fires in California. It’s the ever widening parameters of the weather records that can reveal the extent of climate change,caused by AGW. We call everthing in Science that is a known fact,a THEORY! We don’t have a site called "Gravity",or "Relativity",where any idiot can post their ‘beliefs’ about those subjects. We need to get serious about the deadly problem of AGW!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/82363

linlyons,
weonly have one tiny little planet,why screw it up for the protection of profits for just a few?
matt,
it’s the extemes of daily weather that have increased. If each year,the high temp is broken,how hot will get before you ‘believe’ that it’s really too hot? If each year here in the N.W.,we get stronger record breaking storms . How much stronger do these storms have to get? We had a TORNADO this winter. What’s next?

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1. Where is the safest place to wait out a tornado? (1 point)
In a ditch
In a car
In a basement or cellar
Close to a window
2. Which natural disaster does the National Weather Service track? (1 point)
Hurricanes
Floods
Blizzards
Earthquakes
3. What is the first step in taking emergency action? (1 point)
Identifying the signs of an emergency
Taking action
Calling for help
Use universal precautions
4. Which is NOT a step to take in an emergency situation? (1 point)
Taking Action
Calling for Help
Turning off electrical appliances
Providing Care Until Help Arrives
5. What is the best step to take if the victim is unresponsive and unconscious? (1 point)
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
antiseptic ointment
check the throat
Heimlich maneuver

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Hello my name is megan. and i’m asking this question because i’m very scared/worried. I mean look at the earthquakes and food shortages. and the floods/ tornadoes in California. I’m so scared. Please answer me on this. I’m worried/scared. (

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Does anyone live in San Antonio? Do you like it? What are the pros, cons? Do you have tornados, floods, fires? Any serious info. will be greatly appreciated.

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And would consider letting companies go hog wild and reduce EPA standards to create more pollution (such as the Bush administration) and create all forms of health hazards including cancers which cost tax payers and insurances much money. Ignoring all the billions in environmental damage that we have seen by hurricanes, forest fires, floods and tornadoes.

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I’m doing report on natural disasters and one question is, "What is the impact put on on a community from a natural disaster?" ( when i say natural disasters I mean Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, monsoons, avalanches, e.t.c.

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I’m having some trouble w/ direct, and indirect objects [grammar]. Could you help me? Can you explain it to me in an easy way to understand?

Some questions:
Identify if the bold faced word as Direct Object [DO], Indirect Objects [IO], or none [N

1. A hurricane is a powerful, swirling storm (storm is boldfaced)
2. Meteoroligists watched a big storm carefully (storm)
3. Newscasters gave their listeners warnings about the hurricane.(listeners)
4. The hurricane struck land in the morning. (land)
5. The hurricane winds swirled around the eye of the storm. (storm)
6. The hurrican caused huge waves. (waves)
7. The waves produced widespread floods. (floods)
8. The floodwaters destroyed many people’s property. (property)
9. Television newscasts showed their audiences pics of the storm. (audiences)
10. Volunteers sent the hurricane victims emergency supplies. (victims)

Thanks, if you don’t want to answer the q’s, s’ok, but pleaseee explain it to me clearly.

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This is a recurring nightmare I have had for at least 15 years. I know it is hard for anyone to interpret it exactly, but I would really like to know what other people think about it.

I am usually on an island, either driving or in a beach home. A terrible storm approaches and the entire island is quickly flooded. In addition to the ocean floods, there are usually several to many tornadoes swarming around. As the sky gets darker and darker, the water rises slowly to the point where I cannot escape. I panic and try to run/swim to safety but I am unable to. Before me I see many other people also drowning and cannot do anything to help them or myself. Sometimes I am with a loved one and they also drown. Then, horrifyingly, I sometimes even die myself in my dream or at least I think I die because everything just simply goes black and then I wake up. Variations of this dream may simply have the tornadoes and no flood, and instead of dying I just witness total destruction around me.

Ideas?

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what’s up with the weather?

snow in baldwin park?
tornadoes in riverside?
floods? fires?
what’s up with that?

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I live in earthquake country in California and near the San Andreas fault and as a result i have been through a lot of earthquakes even a few floods growing up. My question is why do people who live in Earthquake country or hurricane or tornado alley especially like florida & the gulf coast always act supervised when their hit by a natural which ever disaster fits the area? I mean if you live in Hurricane alley you have to expect and accept that there is a chance a hurricane will affect you in some way potentially greatly. Most have to have insurance be it flood or earthquake or hurricane. I just don’t get why people always seem or act supervised that a hurricane put a tree through their house or flooding on the coasts after a hurricane may have done damage to your house that the hurricane the hurricane had skipped. What’s the saying if you play with fire you’re bound to get burned? I accept that one day there will be a big earthquake bigger then the 7.3 in 1987 or any in LA and I accept that there might be a miracle flooding because of faulty levees or global warming or whatever. I don’t mean to sound cold but if you live below sea level surrounded by water you’re going to flood sooner or later yet we bury our heads until it happens & then are shocked. I just don’t get it….Slamming your hand in a car door is funny but hurts which is why I try not to do it it just boggles my mind how shocked & suprised people are about things they know ahead time are possible. Same goes with investing be it the stock market or houses its a risk any time anywhere & whatever reason you do it & yes the potential gains are often good but there’s still some risk & people accept it invest or buy and then the economy or housing market tanks or the company goes bankrupt or has a health scare & boom the investment backfired. There’s risk. I ….beyond me ….why do we over look things burying our heads in the sand & why are we suprised when it happens?

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I really want to visit Ireland in the future and i might possibley want to move there but i don’t know what their weather is like
do they have earthquakes?, Tornados?, floods?, Huricanes?,
lightning storms?, twisters?

or do they have all?

i was wondering for safety reasons

thanks
I know it rains alot there
rain is no problem for me i love the rain,
but it depends on how much because i’m not a fan of deep flooding…

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If there is a Liberty City Stories and A Vice City Stories should’nt there be a San Andreas Stories.

If you know anybody who thinks about making a game like this please tell me and tell the maker these Cheats.

Weather cheats:
1 Tornado (massive F5 only)
Twin tornado then after 10 seconds combines into one big one.
5 tornadoes.

Tidal Wave floods city (if you are in the city it may take 30seconds to come through) kills people even you.It will be a hundred foot wave but whne it goes into the city it goes fifty foot.Also if it is near any road like los santos inlet.

dust devils (sand tornado) in the desert (only created by dust and sand).One cheat can be for a massive dust devil which can only like damage lamposts,trees and blow them about,and one can be for a small one which can only knock down palm trees in the desert which look like cactus.

Other:Buy surfboards with a new surf shack on beaches like Santa Maria,East Beach,(surfboard will be put in safehouse) 15ft waves.

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is there a lot of floods or tornadoes there?

how is it to live in the actual city of chicago?

and any info that can be helpful for a 23 year old male moving from california

thanks

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Building Designers and Regulators have a new Associate in the privelages of carrying Errors and Omissions Insurances.

I have never heard of a Realtor having the Authority to make Structural Engineering decisions before, but that is what Errors and Omissions Insurances cover, structural failures of buildings, etc; in tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.

My understanding of why the Congress and Federal Government approved this shortly after hurricane Katrina, was so that the Realtors would inform the prospective and buying Public about the dangers from floods, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and what is good insurance coverage types for them!! I have talked to several ealtors who now carry this type of insurances, but still refuse to assist with my questions on disaster preparedness. Are these Realtors not being honest with us?
Response to first 3 answers:

So, you are protected from being sued for your mistakes when my house gets whacked by a tornado/hurricane/earthquake, right?

That is what Designers, Regulators, and Builders are covered against.

Do you care or want to improve the building frames, so that they won’t get destroyed by these high/heavy stress events? Why would you? YOU are covered against ME, but my PROPERTY is NOT COVERED against ANYTHING, get it?

It is my PROPERTY, my buildings and structures that I want improved, not your escapes from responsibilities, accountabilities, and desires of improving YOUR PRODUCT!!

I have friends who have DIED from defective buildings, and I want them back!! Does your insurance assist with my American Dream? I have friends who are in high risk areas of the Country, does your insurances help them with THEIR American Dreams? HELL NO!!!

YOU get to watch YOUR CUSTOMERS DIE, and then turn around and SELL more of them the EXACT same defective CRAP!!
Towanda; I GET IT, I’m CONVINCED YOU DON’T!!
Dawni Do Right;

THE only "right direction" is BETTER BUILDING FRAME SYSTEMS, that IMPROVE the BUILDINGS!! NOBODY in the COUNTRY wants to hear of any cosmetic/aesthetic/green technology "SOLUTION" to tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or wildfires!!!!! WE are sick and tired of the runaround you are so experts in, that does NOTHING to better PROTECT OUR FAMILIES and PROPRTIES!! WE WANT TO HAVE TORNADO-PROOF BUILDING FRAMES, FIRST, THEN all your fluff and stuff cosmetics!!
acermill;

The ILLEGAL actions about Error and Omissions Insurances, is that it is a ONE SIDED sold coverage!! What I mean is, that I have contacted each and every Error and Omissions, Insurance Company, as a BUYER of Real Estate, and CANNOT BUY, I repeat, CANNOT BUY, error and omissions coverages/policies, because I am BUYING, NOT DESIGNING the buildings and structures on the real estate properties that I am interested in purchasing!! If you, the cities, and the designers can purchase coverages as you explain, ALL Citizens legally have the same RIGHTS, under the U.S. Laws!! Basically, if you can be covered against me, I can be covered against you!! That is not happening currently, and that makes this Nation a non-Democratic and Free Country!! It is against the Constitutions and Laws of each State, also!! The Law is being broken by those who are CHOSEN by the INSURANCE CONPANIES to be able to carry such "prestigious" types of insurances, unfairly to one side of an issue. GET IT?
Sue, what makes sense about Errors and Omissions Insurance is that it is nothing more than a prestigios CLUB Membership, like the Moose Lodges, Vetrans of Foreign Wars, Elks. Fraternal Brotherhood of Police, the American Institute of Architects, and so on. There is absolutely no value other than being a member of a Club, when you or your Company "joins up" by purchasing the E & O Policies. They serve no other purpose, get it?

Make Sense?

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From the Time’s Magazine | Katrina: One Year Later
Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes … Why We Don’t Prepare
"Every July the country’s leading disaster scientists and emergency planners gather in Boulder, CO, for an invitation-only workshop. 440 people obsessed with the tragic and the safe, people who get excited about earthquake "shake maps" and righteous about flood insurance. It’s a spirited but wonky crowd that is growing more melancholy every year. After 9/11, the people at the Boulder conference decried the nation’s myopic focus on terrorism. They lamented the decline of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). And they warned to the point of cliché that a major hurricane would destroy New Orleans. It was a convention of prophets without any disciples…"
"The real challenge in the U.S. today is not predicting catastrophes. That we can do. The challenge that apparently lies beyond our grasp is to prepare for them." (Times Mag. Aug 20th to read more)
Times Magazine on CNN.com August 20th

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Federal Disaster relief? We all get to pay the taxes that go into that pot. We all get to have our insurance go up because they like to build homes and businesses in the path of where Hurricanes land. But heaven forbid a midwestern state get any of that money. I guess our floods and tornadoes just don’t measure up to the repeated stupidity of the hurricane prone states.
I don’t live on a flood plain, though others do. I don’t see why all natural disasters aren’t treated equally.

http://www.wxow.com/News/index.php?ID=12400

Read the article. Wisconsin had damage about the same time as Rita and Katrina hit, but we didn’t get any aid. Stop feeding me that line of BS.

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What has the potential of producing a tornado with little or no advanced tornado warning?
A. Severe thunderstorms
B. Hurricanes
C. Earthquakes
D. Floods

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Yeah, yeah….I know. The city is basically still destroyed and they have not made any significant advancements in rebuilding it.

But many hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters have hit our homeland and within the year we heard nothing more about it.

Did the people affected by Hurricane Andrew years ago receive debit cards from FEMA? What about the flood victims in the midwest? Why isn’t their wall-to-wall coverage of their plight like it was for Hurricane Katrina?

And two more questions: People wonder why New Orleans is taking so long to be rebuilt?

a. This city is BELOW sea level. It fills up like a bowl when it is flooded. What insurance company wants to insure that?

b. The crime in that city is ridiculous. Who wants to move back to a place murder is high and the police force is crippled?
weapon sidewalk– you should talk….you are one of the dumbest people on here.

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