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Mother nature's wrath

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Cameblackbenzleftwhite1 · 20/09/2017 09:43

Jlaw was ridiculed for saying hurricanes and earthquake are mother nature's wrath against how messed up the world is. But it's so rare for a cat 5 to make landfall, between 1962 - 2016 only two made landfall and now we have two within a few weeks. Plus earthquakes and floods.

Aibu to think she might be on to something?

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LaurieFairyCake · 20/09/2017 09:45

It's climate change. Anyone who thinks otherwise is daft, we are reaping what we sow.

AutoFillUsername · 20/09/2017 09:46

It's not Mother Nature's wrath. Nature has not got a mind. But Nature does respond according to what laws of physics. The hurricanes are climate change, not wrath, science.

Who is Jlaw?

Phosphorus · 20/09/2017 09:48

You think 'Mother Nature' is a sentient being?

Have you actually been educated to any degree?

Even the Vatican encourages science and study of the planet. Hmm

Opheliasgoldenwine · 20/09/2017 09:49

What Grin

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Cameblackbenzleftwhite1 · 20/09/2017 09:52

The thing against climate change is its started happening so quickly, it hasn't been a constant build up. From 1mph to 100 in a split second.

Yes I have a very good honours degree in criminology from a red brick Biscuit

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nocake · 20/09/2017 09:52

Firstly, just because something is rare or unusual that doesn't mean it never happens.

Secondly, man made climate change. We're affecting the climate in a way that means extreme weather events are more likely to happen.

Tilapia · 20/09/2017 09:54

Climate change isn't happening quickly. It's been building up gradually for decades.

liquidrevolution · 20/09/2017 09:56

Why is Jude Law commenting on the Earths volatile weather systems?

Flyingflipflop · 20/09/2017 09:59

It could well be we have reached a tipping point in climate change where these things are more comment. That's maybe why we have gone from 1mph to 100mph.....

BarbarianMum · 20/09/2017 09:59

Why would Mother Nature even care? Warm the globe, poison the land, poison the seas etc etc something will survive and speciate to fill them. Nature will be just fine, we just won't be around to see it.

AutoFillUsername · 20/09/2017 10:01

CameBlack - so you think that the fast build up of winds is evidence against climate change and more likely to be down to the anger of a nature with a mind of its own?

I'm not sure that you really mean that.

I think the evidence we have so far suggests that the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and warmer oceans, made recent storms far more destructive than they would have been previously.

KinkyFruits · 20/09/2017 10:02

Didn't Jude Law die? Actually I'm thinking of someone else but who is it.... the guy who was with Michelle Williams, he played the joker?

KinkyFruits · 20/09/2017 10:03

Heath Ledger, that's it!

MyBeloved · 20/09/2017 10:04

It is climate change for sure. Its been known that this could happen, for decades. I agree that it looks like we have reached tipping point.

Mother Earth is not happy.

TheEricaOlthwaiteGang · 20/09/2017 10:05

Who is JLaw?

AmysTiara · 20/09/2017 10:10

Jlaw usually refers to Jennifer Lawrence but I didn't know she knew about climate change Confused

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Cameblackbenzleftwhite1 · 20/09/2017 10:11

Gosh has no one seen it? MN makes me feel so young sometimes. :D 12 mins in

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Anatidae · 20/09/2017 10:12

The North Atlantic weather systems that spawn hurricanes are extremely complex and feed off a variety of weather patterns (the North Atlantic oacillation for one.)

There's a decades long up and down in the intensity of hurricanes seasons - this year is particularly bad.

Teasing out the influence of climate change is difficult in some ways. You can't pin any specific hurricane and say 'this one is caused by climate change' but you can identify patterns that show increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the North Atlantic area.

It's also a very small dataset we have - we only have data going back a hundred or so years.

Anyway, it's complex, it's driven by complex systems and it seems to be intensifying somewhat due to climate change.

Mother Nature is an anthromorphic concept - not a real mechanism.

Jlaw is Jennifer Lawrence? I don't think she causes hurricanes, despite being quite hot

sososocross · 20/09/2017 10:15

She's advertising a film in which her character represents the earth/nature. Apparently it's quite shit but she's shacked up with the director and thinks he's a genius so I'm sure that's why she's saying it.... promotional tour of a turkey so create some headlines

Ttbb · 20/09/2017 10:16

I think that the suggestion that 'mother nature' is sentient is a bit silly.

BlackeyedSusan · 20/09/2017 10:17

three cat 5 hurricanes.

maria is a five.

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Cameblackbenzleftwhite1 · 20/09/2017 13:06

The film has got rather good reviews actually.

She's been a big campgainer for equal pay and being the highest paid actress in Hollywood she doesn't need to do cheap stunts.

@blackeye I was just counting the ones that made landfall

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cassyoooo · 20/09/2017 13:14

It is climate change yes but also weather cycles.
It is always for example this is the worst storm since 1973- well what happened in 1973
But I agree we can't carry on as we are, I think we might end up soon with a earth changing event

Anatidae · 20/09/2017 13:15

Climate change affects things like sea level rises as well as sea surface temperatures.

So x inches of sea level rise plus a storm surge = worse damage.

SleepFreeZone · 20/09/2017 13:19

It's climate change and the programs I watched on what's coming is frankly scary. I have to pretend it's not happening or my anxiety will render me useless.