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    2021 Atlantic Hurricane season

    in Tropical Headquarters

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    ... whether we as humans are still around to witness it.


    Well, we could make it until 2068 but there's really strong indications that we have less than a dozen years left.... but I suspect the whatever years that remain will have lots of destruction.

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    Delta Banter Thread

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    Meh... I look at the issue like this. If we were being successful with a program that was trying to be preventative in stopping hurricane landfalls, we're really sucking at it right now, as the track record has been horrible and has been the past five years. The economic toll has been pretty bad. So no real improvement in that regard.
     
    I don't even want to consider the other aspect, as if that was ever a real secret project and it got out, oh dear God. You're going to have entire regions go to war based on financial loss, human suffering, etc.. That is why I choose to think any such program is garbage. It doesn't make sense from a economic or practical sense. Furthermore there's just too much required need for any humans related to such a project to give up any semblance of a conscience, ethical and moral reason to live, much more live with themselves.


    I think you hit on it - the most logical reason to do it would be as a weapon of war. Weaponizing the weather effectively would be a regime change tool and it'd likely be one that worked best if very few knew you were doing it. I'd say that Katrina effectively ended the true power of the Bush presidency and - with it- the "legitimacy" of the Iraq war and the continuation of the WOT. Therefore, there were some that benefited from Katrina.

    Now, can it be done? I have no idea but- given enough time- someone will do it.

    It's a very similar concept to bioweapons. If you're an authoritarian leader and want regime change in a rival democratic regime, unleash a bioweapon. The authoritarian regime will survive (by its nature) while the democratic regime will have a change in leadership.

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    Medicane Ionas (Mediterranean TC)

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    I'll consider it part of the basin when a storm comes out of there and makes landfall in Florida.  It's connected to the Atlantic, but so it the Pacific.
    Well, we just had a landfall in Portugal, so I think the question is legitimate. Is it part of the Atlantic for naming purposes or is it a separate basin?

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    Hurricane Laura - TN Valley Impacts Thread

    in Tennessee Valley

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    Latest NHC map looking like we might have a tropical storm--strength system track into the TN Valley for the first time in 15 years or so.

    While this could be exciting for us, I do realize that these come at a huge cost to others-- getting a tropical storm into TN almost always requires a catastrophic hit along the coast. The last such storm was Katrina (Opal & Camille are the others).

    That said, I do find the situation interesting and exciting, so let's get on with the show...

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