Predictions

[Old Rocks]

Well, we are not half way through the year yet, but they certainly seem to be on the mark.

Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Though 2010 was a record year in terms of the financial and human loss from natural disasters, trends suggest things could get worse, a Belgian report found.

The Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, at that Universite catholique de Louvain in Brussels, found that the 373 natural disasters in 2010 killed more than 296,800 people and caused about $110 billion in damages.


GALLERY: A year after the Haiti quake

Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N. special envoy for disasters, said it's critical for local governments to use climate information in urban planning.

Weather patterns El Nino and La Nina, which can trigger heavy rains and volatile weather conditions, are expected to linger for the next 25 years, the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

Wahlstrom said weather-related disasters are likely to rise because of complications tied to global climate change. A heat wave during the summer caused more than 50,000 fatalities in Russia and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 222,000



Read more: Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

 

[Ernie S.]

I predict that hundreds of weather related records will be broken this year. With literally thousands of records, it's a statistical certainty.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Well, we are not half way through the year yet, but they certainly seem to be on the mark.

Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Though 2010 was a record year in terms of the financial and human loss from natural disasters, trends suggest things could get worse, a Belgian report found.

The Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, at that Universite catholique de Louvain in Brussels, found that the 373 natural disasters in 2010 killed more than 296,800 people and caused about $110 billion in damages.


GALLERY: A year after the Haiti quake

Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N. special envoy for disasters, said it's critical for local governments to use climate information in urban planning.

Weather patterns El Nino and La Nina, which can trigger heavy rains and volatile weather conditions, are expected to linger for the next 25 years, the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

Wahlstrom said weather-related disasters are likely to rise because of complications tied to global climate change. A heat wave during the summer caused more than 50,000 fatalities in Russia and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 222,000



Read more: Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

What do you think weather has to do with Earthquakes?

 

[Old Rocks]

Nothing at all. However, what we have seen in Australia, Sri Lanka, Columbia, and the US thus far is pretty indictutive of an active year.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Then why does your link contain a comment about earthquakes? Is it because you are a complete idiot?

 

[skookerasbil]

I predict that hundreds of weather related records will be broken this year. With literally thousands of records, it's a statistical certainty.

yuk.......yuk............

What do I love best about this forum?

Old Rocks, Chris and all the other hyper-nuts fall all over themselves posting up these threads of bogus by the dozens and the things get blown up within 3 or 4 posts.............YET............they keep blowing themselves up day after day.


Ernie bro...........I laughed my balls off when I read your post!!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Well, we are not half way through the year yet, but they certainly seem to be on the mark.

Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Though 2010 was a record year in terms of the financial and human loss from natural disasters, trends suggest things could get worse, a Belgian report found.

The Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, at that Universite catholique de Louvain in Brussels, found that the 373 natural disasters in 2010 killed more than 296,800 people and caused about $110 billion in damages.


GALLERY: A year after the Haiti quake

Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N. special envoy for disasters, said it's critical for local governments to use climate information in urban planning.

Weather patterns El Nino and La Nina, which can trigger heavy rains and volatile weather conditions, are expected to linger for the next 25 years, the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

Wahlstrom said weather-related disasters are likely to rise because of complications tied to global climate change. A heat wave during the summer caused more than 50,000 fatalities in Russia and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 222,000



Read more: Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

What do you think weather has to do with Earthquakes?

Quantum.........Rocks was right on board when the nuts were blaming the Japan quake on global warming.

 

[sparky]

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)

 

[Old Rocks]

Then why does your link contain a comment about earthquakes? Is it because you are a complete idiot?

Well, my little idiot child, it mentiioned natural disasters in the last two years. And that just happened to include earthquakes. There was nothing in the passing referance to the earthquakes to tie them to weather.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Well, we are not half way through the year yet, but they certainly seem to be on the mark.

Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Though 2010 was a record year in terms of the financial and human loss from natural disasters, trends suggest things could get worse, a Belgian report found.

The Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, at that Universite catholique de Louvain in Brussels, found that the 373 natural disasters in 2010 killed more than 296,800 people and caused about $110 billion in damages.


GALLERY: A year after the Haiti quake

Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N. special envoy for disasters, said it's critical for local governments to use climate information in urban planning.

Weather patterns El Nino and La Nina, which can trigger heavy rains and volatile weather conditions, are expected to linger for the next 25 years, the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

Wahlstrom said weather-related disasters are likely to rise because of complications tied to global climate change. A heat wave during the summer caused more than 50,000 fatalities in Russia and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 222,000



Read more: Weather disasters likely to rise - UPI.com

What do you think weather has to do with Earthquakes?

Quantum.........Rocks was right on board when the nuts were blaming the Japan quake on global warming.

Was he? He is even dumber than I thought.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Then why does your link contain a comment about earthquakes? Is it because you are a complete idiot?

Well, my little idiot child, it mentiioned natural disasters in the last two years. And that just happened to include earthquakes. There was nothing in the passing referance to the earthquakes to tie them to weather.

Your post is about weather, and you posted it in environment. Call me stupid for thinking you had a brain.

 

[skookerasbil]

Then why does your link contain a comment about earthquakes? Is it because you are a complete idiot?

Well, my little idiot child, it mentiioned natural disasters in the last two years. And that just happened to include earthquakes. There was nothing in the passing referance to the earthquakes to tie them to weather.

Yo Quantum..........go check out the GE thread bro. While I pwn Rocks on an almost daily basis in here, he got body slammed on that thread. Looked like a side act at a 30's era circus. Check it out..........it is epic.

 

[RollingThunder]

Yo Quantum..........go check out the GE thread bro. While I pwn Rocks on an almost daily basis in here, he got body slammed on that thread. Looked like a side act at a 30's era circus. Check it out..........it is epic.

You're a delusional idiot, kooker. One of your delusions is that you have ever succeeded in winning any debates. You never have and you probably never will because you're an ignorant retard. You're just too stupid to realize that your moronic, nonsensical posts are always refuted by actual evidence.

 

[Oddball]

Prediction:

No matter what the weather does, Oldrocksinthehead will find a way to blame it on gullible warming.

 

[RollingThunder]

Prediction:

No matter what the weather does, Oldrocksinthehead will find a way to blame it on gullible warming.

Prediction:

No matter what Oddestball does, he will never get over being a clueless retard and he will never manage to post anything with any meaning or significance.

 

[Oddball]

I blame that on gullible warming, too....Only follows.

 

[skookerasbil]

Yo Quantum..........go check out the GE thread bro. While I pwn Rocks on an almost daily basis in here, he got body slammed on that thread. Looked like a side act at a 30's era circus. Check it out..........it is epic.

You're a delusional idiot, kooker. One of your delusions is that you have ever succeeded in winning any debates. You never have and you probably never will because you're an ignorant retard. You're just too stupid to realize that your moronic, nonsensical posts are always refuted by actual evidence.

This guy is calling everybody else "idiot" and "delusional"............the same guy who a few weeks back jumped on board with the other high priests of the religion calling the Japan earthquakes a consequence of global warming!!!


Hmmmm.............but we are the delusional!!! Cool..........

 

[Old Rocks]

Oh my, added lying to your trollish bullshit, Kooky, old boy.

 

[waltky]

There will be earthquakes in various places...

22 quakes hit Italy, but none in Rome despite myth
May 10, 2011 — There have been 22 earthquakes in Italy and the day's only half over. But none of them have been the devastating temblor predicted in an urban legend to strike Rome on Wednesday.

Seismologists at the National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology are spending the day trying to debunk the myth that a major earthquake is due to hit the Eternal City. They say there's no way to predict a quake and that 22 quakes by noon is perfectly normal for highly seismic Italy. Despite the extraordinary lengths Italian officials are going to calm nerves, some Romans aren't taking any chances. An agricultural farm lobby says a survey of farm-hotels around the capital indicate some Romans are leaving town for the day.

Italian officials are going to extraordinary lengths to try to debunk an urban legend predicting a devastating earthquake in Rome on Wednesday. The country's Civil Protection department has posted a dense information packet on its website stressing that quakes can't be predicted and that Rome isn't particularly at risk. Toll-free numbers have been set aside at city hall to field questions. The national geophysics institute will open its doors to the public Wednesday to inform the curious and the concerned about seismology.

The effort is all designed to debunk a purported prediction of a major Roman quake on May 11, 2011, attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. The only problem is Bendandi never made the prediction, says Paola Lagorio, president of the association in charge of Bendandi's documentation. Lagorio insists that there is no evidence in Bendandi's papers of any such precise a prediction and blames unidentified forces who want to "frighten people and create this situation of panic that is attributed to a prediction Bendandi never made."

Despite her denials and the concerted effort by seismologists to calm nerves, some Romans are taking precautionary measures. Italian agriculture lobby Coldiretti reported Tuesday that a survey of farm-hotels around the capital indicate many Romans are leaving town for the day. "One cannot speak of an exodus, but there are cases of entire families that have decided to leave the city for the country," Coldiretti said in a statement.

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10 dead as earthquakes rock southern Spain
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 - Two earthquakes struck southeast Spain in quick succession today, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and causing major damage to buildings, officials said.

The epicenter of the quakes — with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 — was close to the town of Lorca, and the second came about two hours after the first, an official with the Murcia regional government said on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. The Murcia regional government said a hospital in Lorca was being evacuated, dozens of injured people were being treated at the scene and a field hospital was being set up.

The Spanish prime minister's office put the death toll at 10 and the Murcia regional administration said the deaths included a minor and occurred with the second, stronger quake. Large chunks of stone and brick fell from the facade of a church in Lorca as a reporter for Spanish state TV was broadcasting live from the scene. A large church bell was also among the rubble, which missed striking the reporter, who appeared to be about 30 feet away when it fell. The broadcaster reported that schoolchildren usually gather at that spot around that time, and if it had happened 10 minutes later, a "tragedy" could have occurred.

Spanish TV showed images of cars that were partially crushed by falling rubble, and large cracks in buildings. Nervous groups of residents gathered in open public places, talking about what happened and calling relatives and friends on their cell phones. An elderly woman appeared to be in shock and was seated in a chair as people tried to calm her. "I felt a tremendously strong movement, followed by a lot of noise, and I was really frightened," the newspaper El Pais quoted another Lorca resident Juani Avellanada as saying. It did not give her age.

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[percysunshine]

Of all the environmental disasters that get press attention, tsunamis..tornadoes..hurricanes...floods...earthquakes etc.., no one ever talks about pestulance. That isn't fair...we need a pestulance lobby.