Mark Levin had Dr. Simon Atkins on his show a bit ago, shortly after Dr. Atkins’ article was linked on Drudge, and his main beef is that Hurricane Irene is being over-hyped as if it were a much worse hurricane than it really is and it’s causing mass hysteria. He says this is no Katrina, no 1954 Hazel and it’s no Hurricane Ike. Right now it’s a strong category one hurricane and he doesn’t see it really strengthening. But his fear is that when a huge hurricane actually does hit the Northeast, it will be like the boy who cried wolf and people will simply ignore it because they’ve heard it all before.

As for this storm, he says the strongest winds are in the eastern quadrant and that he doesn’t expect many places to get sustained winds over 60mph. That’s not to say that this storm won’t do damage. In fact he believes that it will be in the top 10 for power outages and the storm surge will certainly cause problems. But again, he simply doesn’t believe this hurricane warrants the mass hysteria or the closing of mass transportation.

So I guess we’ll see if he is right. Listen to the interview below. I’ve edited it down as much as I can to the substance of his comments.




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DH
DH

Dr Simon Atkins PhD is a complete fraud, he Phd is from a degree mill shut down in Alabama. Clayton College of Natrual Health, was an unacredited school, which didn't have a license in Alabama and only could have mail course and no resident of Alabama.

Steve Hernandez
Steve Hernandez

Falsely reporting the intensity of the storm can have great impact and negative repercussions on the market and commerce in general.

zach zachman
zach zachman

Don't feel bad, someone cuts a loud fart in my neighborhood and the power goes out for a week. It got a little better when the electric company came around and trimmed the trees. I had to drop a few thousand bucks to trim back a few trees in my yard, nothing cheap about getting tree work done!

zach zachman
zach zachman

Dan Rather's going to be upset. He's been wanting a major hurricane to hit the northeast coast ever since Hurricane Gloria failed to deliver a deadly enough blow in 1985. He was so upset about the storms lack of strength that he exploded on Neil Frank on live television! lmao

zach zachman
zach zachman

Katrina was not a category 5 at landfall, it was a strong 3 or perhaps a 4 if you include the very first piece of land it touched after Florida. It was the size of Katrina and huge storm surge (due to the shallow gulf waters) that made it so deadly. Doesn't really matter though, a storm as huge as Katrina that's a major hurricane is going to do tons of damage and kill a lot of people. This IS a big storm but it's not strong as hurricanes go.

philip faustman
philip faustman

The National (Liberal) Media doing what it does best here again. Forget about all the real important issues just run 24/7 hurricane hysteria BS. It's the same way they had the majority (at one time) believing in The Global Warming farce. It makes me wonder what the other hand is doing while this one has the nation distracted. I will add this, you all know the Al Gore's (and his ilk) will say this is proof of mans carbon foot-print damaging our environment, right? The liberal's and their puppet media will do anything to advance their sick socialist agenda even if it is a complete LIE! Who will report their lies? Not the National Media obviously. We Have Fox Cable News as the only truth on TV and Conservative Talk radio, god bless them. I get my news from online and from the likes of Levin, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and a few other True Conservatives, everyone else can talk to the hand. We have a real battle ahead of us fellow conservatives. We must challenge the liberals and their stupid ideology face to face. Confront them and explain why they are wrong on every issue, I do. We are broke as a nation and yet they say the answer is more spending? That makes no damn sense as we (Conservatives) all know. Stand up and fight to regain our shining city on a hill, right now that city is growing very dark under the Marxist in Chiefs rule. God Bless all True Conservatives...the rest can be called natural selection for all I care. If you are not a part of the solution you are part of the problem.

Johnny Walker
Johnny Walker

Evacuate for a nothing storm so thieves can loot your house. Smart!

Johnny Walker
Johnny Walker

Evacuate for a nothing storm so thieves can loot your house. Smart!

Bryan
Bryan

this storm is way overhyped, even peeps in bahamas said it

puma_for_life
puma_for_life

It had 85 mph winds when it hit NC. That is nothing; I stood out in 80 mph winds when Hurricane Gloria made it up the coast to Maine a number of years ago. Those winds are more like a tropical storm. There will probably more damage from flooding than the winds. Ridiculous hype; we are a fearful people.

Kymber Roldan-Tyner
Kymber Roldan-Tyner

We live in a "hysteria" nation. Everything is out to get you . . . good god! Prepare for the worst but lets not act like it is anything like Katrina.

John Walker
John Walker

They just had a guy on MSNBC in the middle of the "storm" wearing a baseball cap and not getting wet. This is a FARCE people!!! They can't find the storm. There are a few waves, a bit of drizzle, and hardly any wind. Anyone who evacuated is a CHUMP.

The Ancient
The Ancient

Weather people always over hype storms....

It is the only moment in the spot light.... They have to take advantage of it

Ozzie
Ozzie

The bigger the media claims the disaster is, the more legitimacy they add to their claim that Obama has been fighting natural disaster after disaster and that is the reason the economy is still struggling.

The bigger the obstacle, the bigger the accomplishment "success".

Nick Karels
Nick Karels

Obama is waiting for Irene with baited breath... it's going to be made into a "crisis" that the Golfer-in-Chief won't let go to waste

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

He could be right. This storm is as large as Wilma was, but not near as powerful. We were miles away from the winds surrounding the eye, and we still had some sustained winds over 95 MPH, and gusts to a little over 100.

This will cause a lot of flooding, because it'll be a huge rainmaker. I think as it goes over N Carolina's outer banks and into some land over the northern east states, it will weaken pretty fast, which is good!

puma_for_life
puma_for_life

It's already been downgraded to a category 1 storm when it hits NC tomorrow morning. This is ridiculous hype...do the want to distract us from Obama's vacation or are they just into hype.

puma_for_life
puma_for_life

It's already been downgraded to a category 1 storm when it hits NC tomorrow morning. This is ridiculous hype...do the want to distract us from Obama's vacation or are they just into hype.