<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Global warming did NOT cause this plane crash]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Tom Laskawy http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:43:14 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/1 I agree linking single events to climate change is wrong. But I don't know if I agree that the central point of the article is without merit. Are airlines and pilots prepared for a world where tropical storms are far more powerful? I mean, does this not strike you as a very good question? if you read the MSM coverge, the storm is sounding more and more freakish. 100mph updrafts that were bringing seawater to 50,000 feet and causing severe icing conditions. In the tropics! Then we're left with the question of whether this is a truly freak occurrence or whether this is one we'll start seeing more and more. I don't know about you, but that possibility scares me.

]]> I agree linking single events to climate change is wrong. But I don't know if I agree that the central point of the article is without merit. Are airlines and pilots prepared for a world where tropical storms are far more powerful? I mean, does this not strike you as a very good question? if you read the MSM coverge, the storm is sounding more and more freakish. 100mph updrafts that were bringing seawater to 50,000 feet and causing severe icing conditions. In the tropics! Then we're left with the question of whether this is a truly freak occurrence or whether this is one we'll start seeing more and more. I don't know about you, but that possibility scares me.

]]> Comment #2 by oracle2world http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:52:49 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/2  NOAA's WP-3 Orion aircraft flies into hurricanes to study them.  Planes have been crashing because of weather since the dawn of powered flight.  Ingestion of enough rainwater into jet engines will cause them to flame out and cause the plane's backup power to kick-in.  A pitot tube failure means no airspeed or altitude info, that has led to plane crashes. 

If anyone wonders why the environmental movement has become a laughingstock, keep on linking everything to global warming.  Honesty, I think we are back to the ancient practice of seeing omens in every bad event.  I'm surprised solar eclipses, Mount St. Helens, and Big Foot are not linked to global warming.   

 After the hurricane prediction debacles, you would think global warming folks would steer clear of weather and stick to tree ring temperature proxies.

]]>  NOAA's WP-3 Orion aircraft flies into hurricanes to study them.  Planes have been crashing because of weather since the dawn of powered flight.  Ingestion of enough rainwater into jet engines will cause them to flame out and cause the plane's backup power to kick-in.  A pitot tube failure means no airspeed or altitude info, that has led to plane crashes. 

If anyone wonders why the environmental movement has become a laughingstock, keep on linking everything to global warming.  Honesty, I think we are back to the ancient practice of seeing omens in every bad event.  I'm surprised solar eclipses, Mount St. Helens, and Big Foot are not linked to global warming.   

 After the hurricane prediction debacles, you would think global warming folks would steer clear of weather and stick to tree ring temperature proxies.

]]> Comment #3 by racc http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:42:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/3 Well, the tragedy was due to fossil fuels. Without them, the plane wouldn't be in the air in first place.

]]> Well, the tragedy was due to fossil fuels. Without them, the plane wouldn't be in the air in first place.

]]> Comment #4 by hfn http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:43:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/4 Yes, and global warming is also to blame for my back pain. Because my back pain is caused by stress. And I'm stressed out because I'm worried about global warming.


It's called logic, people!


]]> Yes, and global warming is also to blame for my back pain. Because my back pain is caused by stress. And I'm stressed out because I'm worried about global warming.


It's called logic, people!


]]> Comment #5 by oracle2world http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:43:41 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/5 We can blame the air too.  Without air the plane would not have been in the air.

]]> We can blame the air too.  Without air the plane would not have been in the air.

]]> Comment #6 by AntonioSosa http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:47:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/6 Hahahahaha! The global warming dogma believers are getting desperate; aren't they? They'll blame anything and everything on global warming hoping we'll swallow the hoax.

]]> Hahahahaha! The global warming dogma believers are getting desperate; aren't they? They'll blame anything and everything on global warming hoping we'll swallow the hoax.

]]> Comment #7 by oracle2world http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:14:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-04-global-warming-air-france/7 There are winners and losers in climate change.  The US, Canada, Russia, and Northern Europe make out well with global warming.  The third world toilets?  Well, no one will notice any difference either way.

]]> There are winners and losers in climate change.  The US, Canada, Russia, and Northern Europe make out well with global warming.  The third world toilets?  Well, no one will notice any difference either way.

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