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from the and-the-rain-rain-rain-came-down-down-down dept.
The Atlantic's third storm has formed in record time, and it's a threat:
Last year's Atlantic hurricane season ranked among the top five most-active years on record. Its third named storm, Chantal, did not form until August 20.
By contrast, today is June 2, and the Atlantic's third named storm of the year just formed. [...]
This is the earliest ever in the Atlantic season (which, however imperfect, has records dating back to 1851) that the third named storm has formed in a given year. The previous earliest "C" storm was Colin, on June 5, 2016.
[...] The storm is trapped within a large oceanic circulation, known as a gyre, and high pressure over the northern Gulf of Mexico is also inhibiting its motion. As a result, Cristobal will probably wobble around the Bay of Campeche until at least Friday. This will cause torrential rainfall in Southern Mexico and parts of Central America this week.
[...] The bottom line is that a tropical system is likely to be in the Gulf of Mexico late this week, bound for the United States, over waters warm enough to sustain intensification. The time for preparations is definitely now.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 05 2020, @03:20PM (1 child)
A consistent pattern I observe is that the right leaning never see even a teeny tiny bit of irony when they do the very things they accuse the left of doing. I've seen it too many times.
(and I would be shocked, shocked! I tell you, if that hypocrisy happens on both sides)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 06 2020, @06:34AM
Like what?
Let's keep in mind that your original post was a supposition, that Disney World could be "under water" in 200 years combined with a half-baked conspiracy theory about Big Oil shorting Tesla (after all, Big Oil isn't even trying [soylentnews.org] and they get that humongous revenue per day). I merely pointed out, first, that Disney has considerable options to dealing with Disney World's possible fate and it just isn't that big a deal to the present day world, if Disney World ends up underwater or if they do something to prolong its life. I certainly wasn't demanding that Disney spend a lot of money on this. They might choose to in order to continue to profit from Disney World in its present location, but I'm not mandating they spend a dime. sjames goes stupid and claims otherwise.
Then when I point this out, I get accused of hypocrisy, sophistry, and "weasel words" for some reason you probably are incapable of articulating and sjames has already shown he can't articulate. If you want to continue to play the role of fool, go ahead. But if you want to take things seriously, I'm willing to let you try.
Second, on the matter of Tesla - Big Oil isn't the only party with money. Suppose they really did use some of that billions and billions to deliberately short Tesla based on the theory that this selling will make it look bad. What happens when someone else, say PIMCO or J. P. Morgan calls their bluff by buying up all those shorts? Big Oil loses billions and billions ("giving away free money") with no long term effect on Tesla's stock price.
In comparison, propaganda has little risk to it, even if they're caught red-handed. Yet what do we find? Very little propaganda activity (at least an order of magnitude less spending than the pro-climate change side). They just aren't trying. My take is that's because they'll make their hundreds of billions anyway.