Bill Gates targets hurricanes

[PJgunner]

Originally Posted by buckhunter

Paul, I'd love to be a meteorologist. You can be wrong 80% of the time and still get a pat on the back . Being a bean counter that wouldn't work for me.

You know? My boss once chewed me out because he overheard a comment I made. We just both happened to be at the same store and I was talking to someone I'd just been introduced to. he personasked what I did for a living and I said, I'm a weatherman, you know a paid liar."
The next day at work I got one of the worst reamings I'd ever had. When he got through, I looked at him and said, "You know? That's how people think of us anyway so why not make a joke of it and beat them to the punch?" That really sent him off and for the next 5 years he tried every which way to fire me. Turns out he got fired for moral turpitude when he got arrested and convicted for raping his stepdaughter. All the judge gave him was probation but the Weather Service did fire his sorry arse.
On another note,for the most part our forecasts have been quite accurate. At the time of my retirement, out hitting our forecasts was about 85 to 90 percent depending on where you lived. The mountainous west can be difficult due to terrain but once past the Rocky mountains it's usually not all that hard to follow a front and predict where it will be in the future. If it's say at Dodge City at 10 AM and is moving at 20 miles an hour, in 10 hours it will be about 200 miles further east. Sometimes they stall which can complicate things but that using happens where there is a lot of friction, like going through mountainous territory.
Stuff like global warming is creating problems but there are other factors screwing up the works. It would take up way too much space and get a tad technical but I do have my theory on part of whats causing much of this screwy weather. Global warming is part of it and it exists. However, it damn well is not man made. If so, how come the surface temperture on mars, Pluto and Neptune has also risen? Ain't no SUVs up there. No coal fired power plants. No man made global warming is a farce, a lie and sham that was foisted upon the world by a few greedy people like Al Gore whose personal fortune has risen from a net worth of $3 million to a net worth of $30 million since this global warming crap got started.
Dunno if you'e much of a reaer but get the book "State of Fear" by Micheal Chricton which somewhat addresses the global warming thing. It is a work of fiction but there is one small part in the book which is too long for me to type out concerning how governments use fear to control the people. The Cold War is a good example. Remember the duck and cover kids did in school. Betcha a fiver that the Russians were doing the same thing. I have to wonder just how serious that bird flu thing was? Now it's global warming.
If you liked Jurrassic Park, or the Andromeda Strain by Chricton and BTW the books are a hell of a lot better. You can add State of Fear to that list but I'' bet money Hollyweird will never make that one into a movie. Funny thing but Chricton passed away some time after State of Fear came out. Coincidence? I wonder?
Oh BTW, my record for correct forecasts over a 33 year period was in the low 90's.
Paul B.