This disaster could not be anticipated or predicted…
by Jack Grant…oh, really?
How about listening to us scientists on occasion? (Make note of the damned DATELINE)
Are we always right?
No…
But, when you do NOT listen to us, you often end up regretting it.
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They make me nuts. How could they not see it coming. Everything I read said it was pending. Everything.
Next up? The dikes around Lake O in Florida. They’re having a tough time with them. A good Cat 5 hits us from the East adjacent to Lake O and the death toll will be far more than New Orleans… and we don’t live in a bowl.
By Bou on 09.02.05 20:59
Science….what’s that?
By Dan Schneider on 09.02.05 23:06
[...] Recently, I posted a link to a Scientific American article published in October of 2001 that predicted with remarkable accuracy the physical effects of a hurricane hitting along the path taken by Katrina. [...]
By Random Fate » Accountability on 09.03.05 18:19
[...] The local newspaper wasn’t the only public venue where the information on the expected results of a major storm were available. Recently, I posted a link to an article in Scientific American from October of 2001 that predicted almost exactly the scenario that occurred. [...]
By Random Fate » This cannot stand on 09.04.05 11:43
[...] Long ago I linked to the Scientific American article that seems eerily prescient for those who refuse to acknowledge the predictive power of science (and as I wrote before, note the God-damned dateline of the article). [...]
By The nature of a man, even a President, is revealed by what he lies about | Random Fate on 03.02.06 05:40
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