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Monday, 11 September 2017

12 Candle Scents For Men That Won’t Compromise Traditional Masculinity

Gendering products that dont need to be gendered is what makes America the greatest country in the former Republic of Pangea.

Over the years, Bath &Body Works created scents like Black Tie, Boathouse Row and Flannel in dark, understated colors for manlymen to enjoy with their tough-ass noses and eyeballs.

In 2011, Shark Tank contestant Johnson Bailey unveiledThe Original Man Candleline, expanding the candle spectrum even more by introducing scents like Fart and Freedom.

The line was born out of a necessity for a smell Bailey didnt consider a vanilla, lavender, foo-foo scented candle, but the line stops short at six scents.

Six scents?! That number is a brazen act of sexism when you consider the options customers of traditionally feminine candles are afforded.

Now, the Ron Swansonsamong us who cant cop to loving the smell of Fresh Cut Lilacs in fear of losing respect from society can enjoy an even wider array of manly scents, thanks to the Traditional Masculinity Collection.

Scents include…

Ground Beef

Yum, bro, is it taco night? You got burgers going? This candle, which smells like savory beef chunks fresh off the skillet, will keep your stomach growling and your bros jealous.

That Raccoon I Killed

Remember that raccoon that kept digging through your trash at night and leaving used condoms all over the lawn? You can relive the moment you nailed him between the eyes with a slingshot every time you light this hand-poured candle. You named the raccoonafter your favorite uncle, Greg, before you mounted him because dammit if you didnt respect him. Now, smell your victory at your leisure.

Unprotected Sex

If youre a single guy with a rational fear of disease, unprotected sex just isnt on the schedule most nights. When you set the mood with this candle, you can get as close to the real, raw thing as possible with a soothing combination of ecstasy, regret and sandalwood.

Firm Handshake

You can literally feel the weight of another mans hand on your hand every time you take a whiff of this fat jar of wax. Sit back, relax and pretend your boss finally respects you with this signature scent.

The Big Game

Gone are the days of memorizing stats to prove you have a penis. This massive candle does the work for you. The Big Game triple-wicked floor candle is among our most impressive products. At 3 feet tall, this thing will last season after season of sports wins.

Wayne Gretzky Poster

Aw, sh*t. Remember that sweet poster of The Great One you bought at your elementary school book fair? Remember tacking him to your wall, telling him about your day and hugging him when puberty got tough? The smell of your favorite poster isnt lost forever. You can revisit the bossest moments of your childhood with our set of Wayne Gretzky Poster tea lights.

Beer With My Dad

You two dont always see eye to eye, especially when it comes to politics, but hes your old man, and you love him. Often youll think back to summers at the shore, sharing a beer with the man whose penis made your penis. At the end of a long day spent trying to earn his approval, spark up one of these bad boys and practice what youll say to him on his death bed.

Boob I Saw

A mans first boob sighting, aside from the ones he saw nursing as a baby, is a thrilling event. Let the swirling scents of Phoebe Cates, Titanic and sandalwood take you back to a simpler time.

Poker Night At My Boy Jeffs House

Ever wished you could spend every night at Jeff’s poker game instead of just one night a month? Of course, you do. Dude always has hot snacks like pizza bagels and taquitos, plus a fridge full of beer and a regulation-size poker table, making the whole game feel almost too legit. Life might prevent this from becoming a nightly reality, but the scent of onion dip mingling with cigar smoke and sandalwood creates a candle that will instantly transport you to J’s basement.

Jeremy Piven

Dude’s reckless. “PCU”? “Entourage”? The “Entourage” movie? The trailer for the “Entourage” movie? He’s a legend. While you might never be lucky enough to call him one of your boys, you can search for a photo of him on Google Images and bull sh*t with him while you enjoy the intoxicating scent of his essence.

Big F*cking Eagle

For a couple months, an eagle would perch on your back porch in the evenings. You’d make direct eye contact with him as you fed him live mice. Obviously, he turned out to be a small hawk, not a badass eagle, but your connection with the most dignified creature of all time remains. Honor his memory, and light your dining room with a candle made from the natural oils of live bald eagles. The odor of our collection of tapered Big F*cking Eagle candles is as pungent and gamey as it is patriotic. After all, these are majestic creatures deserving of the utmost reverence.

Grand Theft Auto

Accents of Mountain Dew, Hot Pockets, stagnant, jarred urine and sandalwood blend to perfection in this recent addition to the collection. Seconds after lighting the wick, you can almost physically feel your avatar hijacking an automobile and plowing over a prostitute without stopping to take a second glance. At just $12.99 a pop, thesecandles are much cheaper than any video game.

Tell the world you’re a man in the age-old, one-dimensional sense, and get yourself a Traditional Masculinity Collection candle today.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/12/12-candle-scents-for-men-that-wont-compromise-traditional-masculinity/

Shower Beers Are A Thing And The Internet’s Loving It

You ever see something go viral and think to yourself “haven’t people been doing that forever? I know I have!”? Whether you were dabbing before it became a thing or doing the ice bucket challenge for fun (for some reason) before the fund raising got involved, it’s always fun (albeit somewhat annoying) to see happen.

One of my proudest moments in regards to being part of the Powell family was when, in a rush to get to a restaurant or whatever, I saw my dad go into the bathroom for a shower with a full bottle of beer and, several minutes later, come out all clean with an empty bottle and I thought to myself “this is a family I’m proud to be part of”.

But now there’s a whole reddit thread dedicated to shower beers and, from what I can tell, it’s just a load of people standing naked with a shower head in the background, “covering” their modesty with weak American beer.

Seems fun…

1. The perfect cropping. Bravo

2. Would that be allowed on TV pre-watershed?

3. So this guy’s actual username isCunnilingusPhD. Yeah.

4. You know people only put limes in Coronas to keep the flies away? Fun fact…

5. He looks so happy

6. Solid beer choice

7. Jesus…

8. He’s not new to this at all

9. Her hair’s not even wet and there’s far too much beer in that bottle. At least look like you’re trying!

10. Crafty twos-up

11. Wonder what ‘h’ stands for?

12. You really shouldn’t drink porter out of the bottle

You know, I’m in half a mind to get myself on this reddit thread but I’m really not one for getting naked on the internet to make a point.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments!

All images via Reddit.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/12/shower-beers-are-a-thing-and-the-internets-loving-it/

5 Terrible Tragedies Exploited By Cash-Obsessed A-Holes

Everyone loves a good scary movie, but wouldn’t it be great if you were actually living in a scary movie? That’s the business model in play for some luminaries out there, who think you really want to relive some of history’s most horrifying moments. They’re convinced that the tragedy-junkie dollar exists, dammit, and they’re going to get that green, dammit. So what’ve they come up with?

#5. Haunted Houses Based On Real Serial Killers

People who go to haunted houses are getting increasingly jaded — once you’ve chained live, naked actresses to the floor, there aren’t many places to go — apparently prompting the sort of people who design haunted houses to ask themselves, “What about actual murder?”

So, for the last few years, haunted houses have begun reenacting the real murders of notorious serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. One New York production even featured an exhibit of the creepsters’ personal belongings, donated by a murder memorabilia collector who requested to remain anonymous. Let the speculation begin!

It’s always the quiet ones.

If you haven’t cottoned on to what’s wrong with that, here’s a hint: The victims’ families are still alive! And lo, they aren’t thrilled about jump-scare peddlers using deceased loved ones as props. (And at $30 to $60 a ticket, wildly profitable ones.) To really rub it in, some houses are specifically focusing on local killers, just to make absolutely certain that someone will stumble upon their worst nightmare.

For example, a Sacramento house tried to cash in on the local notoriety of Richard Trenton Chase. For those of you who didn’t live through Chase’s serial killing spree, the short version is that he killed six people.

Then he mutilated and ate them.

Among his victims was a pregnant woman whom he shot, killed, stabbed, sexually assaulted, and drank the blood of, in that order. And her husband was the one who found her when Chase was done. So you could imagine the husband’s horror when he found out that 36 years later a local entertainer was selling tickets to staged re-creations of his wife’s murder. The only good news to come out of this story is that the Sacramento house shut down their fun little show when the victims’ grieving families complained.

Also, there’s a warm seat in hell reserved for this newspaper layout editor.

And the only reason the horrific story above is considered “good news” is because Rob Zombie didn’t have the grace to do the same thing after people complained about Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare in Chicago, which featured a Gacy room.

When the Gacy victims’ families complained about a haunted house room featuring a clown blowing up balloons while surrounded by child-sized dolls dressed as Boy Scouts, Rob Zombie said he thought the room was “funny.” And in case you’ve forgotten John Wayne Gacy’s shtick, it was raping and murdering at least 33 Chicago-area young men. To be fair, everyone who’s seen his Halloween remakes knows that Rob Zombie is a renowned authority on comedy.

Finally, London recently opened a Jack the Ripper museum that — not even fucking kidding here — initially branded itself as a new “museum of women’s history.” The museum’s press release invited visitors to experience Jack the Ripper’s crimes “through the eyes of the women who were his victims,” by which they meant “take selfies with their mannequin corpses.”

#TransformationTuesday #dead

No, really: “A picture with Jack in Mitre Square together with the body of Catherine Eddowes” was one of the advertised selling points. The museum’s spokesperson insisted that the morbid selfie station was “done in a very respectful way,” and those words somehow didn’t sound like nonsense when he heard them come out of his mouth. In another statement issued by the museum, they explained that they just wanted women to “be able to experience the London of 1888 in the presence of Jack the Ripper.” That’s a good point — where else could a woman ever experience the fear of violence just from walking down the street?

#4. An Annual Nazi-Themed Christmas Party

In 2014, a Minneapolis newspaper received a photo of a literal Nazi party, complete with cheerful swastika flags hung between Christmas lights over a group of men in SS uniforms. The anonymous sender provided no other information, making it seem like a really vague and bizarre threat, but the newspaper’s reporters eventually discovered that it was not, in fact, a Shining-style snapshot of a ghost ball but a group of historical reenactors partying like it’s 1939.

After the local Jewish community issued a call to shut down the event, its organizer made a statement, insisting, “By no means do we glorify the edicts of the Third Reich,” before pulling out the smelling salts in case he got a case of the vapors at the mere suggestion.

“We just like to get drunk and spend the evening heiling, like any fun-loving American.”

This little group just likes to get together for a bit of wholesome Nazi fun every Christmas and hand out swastika T-shirts to the restaurant staff, that’s all. Another partygoer explained, “Because they dress up like Germans from World War II, it’s cool to go to a German restaurant, eat German food, and drink German beer.” Dude, cultural appropriation is not the problem here.

As for why it was necessary to actually hang up Nazi decorations and give out Nazi party favors, they’re, uh … really into method acting? He compares it to “a Star Trek convention but for WWII enthusiasts,” failing to grasp the galaxy-sized difference between those things. He may not win any awards for cultural sensitivity, but he gets first place in self-dug holes.

#3. There Are Two New Titanics In The Works

Apparently, there are people who watch Titanic over and over for reasons other than Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and the furious masturbation they inspire. Indeed, the ship that famously claimed the lives of approximately 1,500 people has enough fans that not one but two actual-size replicas are being built.

One will be a functional cruise ship that its commissioner, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, fully intends to sail, because some people have no fear of irony. Of course, the construction of Titanic II will comply with modern safety regulations, and it’s set to sail a completely different path. Don’t wanna tempt fate too much.

Crewmen shouting, “Iceberg! 2,500 miles north!” while not exactly in great taste,
is a lot more reassuring.

The people building the other replica, however, are actually counting on it sinking. That’s because it will be part of a “6-D” Chinese theme park where people can experience the sinking firsthand with a simulation featuring an orgy of special effects and/or go insane exploring the two dimensions beyond time itself.

The guy funding it excitedly gushed that visitors “will think, ‘The water will drown me; I must escape with my life,'” unwittingly unmasking himself as a robot with no comprehension of the human concept of fun. Aside from the questionable judgment of using a tragedy as the basis for a freaking theme park, what is even the point of a Titanic simulation that doesn’t include Kate Winslet’s nipples?

#2. A Reality TV Show Simulating Life In Nazi Germany

If you could travel back to any time period and experience how people lived in that era, what would you pick? The Ren Faire types might choose Renaissance Europe, the chemistry enthusiasts might choose the ’60s, and so on. That covers both of our readers, which means none of you picked Eastern Europe in the 1940s. Huh, why might that be?

“OK, before we set up the time machine, who votes ‘Hendrix concert’
and who votes ‘Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia’?”

Even though everyone knows what life was like in that particular place and time — to wit, super horrible — that hasn’t stopped those paragons of taste, reality TV producers, from bringing us The Real World: Nazi Europe. It was actually a short-lived series in the Czech Republic called, for serious, Holiday In The Protectorate. There was no time travel involved, just a modern family shut in a house with little food and period-appropriate accommodations while fake Nazi soldiers prowled outside, because they had a really weird idea of leisure.

“You have your Survivor, we have ours.”

The global Jewish community wasn’t impressed, namely because of one tiny anachronism that the director, whose stated goal was “to show life in another era while ensuring the highest level of authenticity,” had absentmindedly overlooked: The very real threat of death, which claimed 82,309 Czech Jews. The greatest danger faced by this family, on the other hand, was a falling stage light. Luckily, that means there was an easy way for the producers to make everyone happy: Just abduct one member of the household every week, never to be seen by their family again. For some reason, they went in a different direction.

#1. 9/11 And Trayvon Martin VR Games

It’s not a mind-blowing revelation that people like to play video games to live out fantasies, the most famous of which is pretending to be an Italian man who’s addicted to psilocybin and tortoise murder. There are also all kinds of Counter-Strike maps that allow you to play out real events, like the Boston Bombing and the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They’re taking some pretty massive liberties with the facts, however. For example, the setup for the wildlife refuge includes fictional hostages the terrorists never took.

Apparently, long diatribes about the Bureau of Land Management don’t really work
in a first-person shooter.

We already base most of our shoot-’em-up games on real wars and the like, so that’s only slightly below par for the course. Then there’s the 9/11 virtual reality game.

The plot? You’re not making a mad dash for survival. In fact, not dying isn’t even an option. You start out in an office in the North Tower, where you receive a few commands to fetch files for your boss and things like that, but once the first plane strikes, you just go where the game takes you. Where it takes you, in fact, is to the office of a stranger who quickly becomes so distraught that he jumps out the window. Then you watch your boss call her mom to say goodbye before you both suffocate from the smoke.

That’s it. Just 10 minutes of watching people cry, and then you die. It’s bleak as shit.

In terms of sheer pointlessness, though, the winner is — no, seriously — the VR reenactment of the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The experience is reconstructed from the 911 calls placed by George Zimmerman and, later, members of the community from inside their homes. So that’s the viewpoint we take. It’s literally just a bunch of people on the phone in their living rooms. We never see or hear anything of the actual shooting except for a flash of gunfire and the boy’s real screams for help. The designers insist that reenactments like these could be helpful to investigators, but failed to explain how animated phone calls starring the goddamn Sims tells anybody anything.

“We didn’t see anything because we were drowning our kids in the pool.”

Ready to learn about some more incredibly dickish people? Then check out The 8 Most Shameless Attempts to Cash In On 9/11 and The 6 Most Clueless Assholes To Ever Exploit Tragedies.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/11/5-terrible-tragedies-exploited-by-cash-obsessed-a-holes/

Sunday, 10 September 2017

Inside the food fight over catchy craft beer names

Is that wheat beer name too witty for its own good? (AP)

The craft-beer industry is running out of hop names.

It has used up Hops of Wrath, Hopsickle, and Hop Drop n Roll. So too with Hopivore, Aurora Hoppyalis, Hoptimum, Hopsecutioner and Notorious H.O.P.

Beer makers have also mown through the animal kingdom in search of catchy names, with hundreds of beers named after bears, dozens tied to moose and more than 100 named after the lowly squirrel. Other well-trod terrain include natural features and historical referencesand head-scratching categorical combinations. (DirtWolf Double IPA?)

With more than 4,600 craft breweries in the U.S. and counting, each with many individual beers, every nook, pun and cranny has been overturned in the quest for creative names for new suds. As the options run out, breweries are increasingly finding themselves at odds with peers across the country, turning to legal battles to protect beer and brewery names from trademark theft.

A trip through recent trademark contests finds Maines Wash Ashore Beer Co. taking issue with another brewerys application for a Washed Ashore beer; a dust-up over a similar-looking yeti image between a Denver brewery and The Red Yeti brewpub in Indiana; and The Shed Brewery in Vermont contesting a competitors Brew Shed beer. Battles have been waged over anchors and narwhals, kilts and yoga terms, and ownership of the word idiot.

Were literally running out of words in the English language that havent already been taken, said Brendan Palfreyman, a lawyer in Syracuse, N.Y., who handles beer trademark cases.

It hasnt always been this hard.

The modern-day craft-beer boom gained steam in the mid- to late 1990s, building on the reputation from earlier pioneers like Samuel Adams-maker the Boston Beer Co. ; Chico, Calif.-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.; and San Franciscos Anchor Brewing, according to Bart Watson, chief economist at the Brewers Association, a craft brewers trade group.

Twenty years later, Americans continue to show a near endless thirst for imbibing, with new breweries springing up at a rate of roughly two a day, according to Brewers Association data. Craft beer now represents 12% of U.S. beer consumption by volume and 21% of beer spending.

All that competition means new entrants must step gently to avoid run-ins.

In a recent quest to name a new beer, Jamil Zainasheff, the owner of Heretic Brewing in Northern California, said his team explored 10 names that were already taken before settling on Shallow Grave Porter. It was the name we liked the least, he said. Thats the way it goes.

This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/10/inside-the-food-fight-over-catchy-craft-beer-names/

Saturday, 9 September 2017

How beer could help with weight loss

A compound found in hops may actually help reverse that beer belly. (iStock)

When it comes to health benefits and alcohol, antioxidant-rich red wine is usually the drink drawing all the praise.

But beer carbs and calories notwithstanding also has its upsides, with studies showing the beverage can help prevent kidney stones, strengthen bones, and aid your digestive system.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/09/how-beer-could-help-with-weight-loss/

Friday, 8 September 2017

Derrick Rose Is Heating Up, But Are The Bulls Better Off Without Him?

Derrick Rose is having a resurrection of sorts. One look at his January split stats, and its clear that hes scoring more efficiently than he has in a while.

Derrick Rose first 11 games this season: 13.9 ppg shooting 37.3/ 17.4/ 80.6% D Rose’s last 11 games: 20.2 ppg shooting 49.5/ 37.0/ 93.8%

Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) January 23, 2016

Hes shooting 48.6 percent on about 17 shots a game, while averaging close to 19 points per game. This includes an efficient 29-point outburst against the NBA-best Warriors in just 30 minutes of action last Wednesday.

Perhaps it took longer than expected for Rose to learn head coach Fred Hoibergs system, but he looks so much more comfortable these day than he did at the beginning of the season.

And the numbers show it.

In November, Rose shot a putrid 35.3 percent on a little over 15 shots a game.

In December, he shot a much better (but still putrid) 41.4 percentwhile averaging a similar amount of attempts.

But in January, Rose’s best month so far, theyre only 7-5 (.583) compared to 18-12 (.600) before the new year.

Even more telling is that the Bulls are 3-0 in January when Rose doesnt play, and are 5-1 overall this season when the 2011 league MVPdoesnt play.

Critics inevitably point to these numbers when they talk about Roses impact on the Bulls.

But are they a better team without him?

I say no.

Other than Rose, there are only two players on the Bulls for whom the opponentrequires intense game planning: Jimmy Butler and Pau Gasol.

In fact, the aforementioned duo, Rose and Mirotic, are the only players on the Bulls averaging more than 10 points per game, which means the team is very shallow.

In fact, Mirotic is averaging just a shade over 10, at 10.5 points per game.

Theres no doubt that Mirotic will develop into a talented offensive player, but hes taken a major step back in his sophomore campaign, shooting a beyond awful38.1 percent.

Heres another stat that proves their offensive depth is poor:

Out of the 30teams in the association, 19 teams have five or more players who average 10points per game or more.

Ten — including the Bulls — have four suchscorers, and only the Knicks have just three.

So do the Bulls need Rose? Absolutely.

They simply dont have enough firepower to go far without him.

Last year, they got a lot more production from players like Aaron Brooks, Taj Gibson, Mike Dunleavy and Joakim Noah.

But this year, there just havent been as many shot opportunities for Brooks and Gibson.

Dunleavy has yet to even suit up, having sat out because of injuries, and Noah is likely to be out for the rest of the year after undergoing shoulder surgery.

Noahs loss stings the Bulls because not only is he the heart of the team, but also an underrated part of their offense, playing an Andrew Bogut-like role as a hub, reading the defense and delivering passes for easy baskets.

For a team that ranks in the lower quartile on assisted baskets, Noahs injury hurts even more.

And speaking of assist numbers, Roses are at an all-time low (just 4.6 per game this season), but part of that is the result of Hoibergs iso-heavy scheme.

With no dynamic shot creators, the Bulls must rely on Rose to produce points when Butler and Gasol struggle.

They simply dont have another guy that can create his own shot.

Its unlikely that Rose will ever get back to his MVP form — or even close to it.

But after a slow start to this season, hes quietly improved every month.

Lets just hope that his health remains intact because the Bulls still need him.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/09/derrick-rose-is-heating-up-but-are-the-bulls-better-off-without-him/

Rio’s famous beaches take battering as scientists issue climate change warning

Local traders lament collapse in business from storm surge amid growing concern that citys sea defences are ill-equipped to cope

Scientists in Rio de Janeiro have warned that the citys sea defences may not be able to cope with the effects of climate change after a record storm surge swamped beaches, dumping hundreds of tonnes of sand across nearby roads and buildings.

Waves of almost four metres in the weekend storm left beach flags fluttering in tatters, forced the closure of deckchair-rental gazebos, and inundated coconut-and-beer kiosks with grit and sea water.

Tourists who had expected to bask in the glorious sunshine that is normal at the start of the southern hemisphere summer walked ponderously along a shoreline that is only slowly recovering from the unseasonal buffeting, while local traders lamented the collapse in business.

This is the worst I have seen in the 20 years since I started working here, said Dominique Souza as he surveyed the aftermath of the storm surge at Post 11 in Leblon: giant heaps of sand, cracked pavements and deluged public toilets. He estimated a more than 80% fall in sales over the past few days at his baraca (beach stall) that sells cold drinks and rents parasols.

Although he expects business to pick up as soon as the weather improves, climate scientists are debating whether wave-slamming on this scale poses an increasing threat to Rios beach economy, which is estimated to be worth 2bn reais (509m/$622m) a year and directly and indirectly employs more than 230,000 people.

In the 1990s, storm surge disruptions occurred roughly once a year, but since 2010 they have hit Rio four or five times as frequently. There have already been four this year, including two of the biggest ever seen. In April, two people were killed when a 50-metre stretch of the Tim Maia bike path was washed away just months after it was built.

This time what was left of the bike path was temporarily shut down along with the Delfim Moreira Avenue to prevent further fatalities and damage. One pedestrian area was also closed off due to subsidence risks, and a wooden deck area the Mirante do Leblon was damaged.

David Zee, oceanography professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said the immediate cause of the swell was a cyclone off the coast of Uruguay combined with the high tide of a new moon. But he said the timing and scale of the extreme weather event posed longer-term climate concerns.

This storm surge is not normal at this time of the year. The surges usually happen in August or September at the latest and they are not so big. This indicates that, without a doubt, the climate is altering.

The increasing frequency of the storms is hindering Rios beaches ability to recuperate, leading to erosion along stretches of the shoreline at Copacabana, Arproador and Macumba, and accumulation elsewhere, such as Leblon.

Vitor Zanetti, of the Technological Institute of Aeronautics, called on the government and local businesses to respond to what he predicted would become a growing trend. This was an extreme climate event, he said. The one thing all climate scientists agree on is that we will see more storms and droughts.

With the latest wave dumping sand and water in buildings across the street from the beach, he suggested hotels relocate their lobbies to higher floors. We need to start thinking about adaptation, he said.

But there is no consensus on the causes.

Alfredo Silveira, an associate professor of synoptic meteorology at Rios Federal University, said the size of the surge was within the predictable patterns of wave behaviour rather than the result of climate change. There is no mystery in its definition or origin. It was predicted and well documented. But it was a bit outside of the usual time frame, a bit late.

Others meteorologists blamed El Nio, though its impact faded earlier this year. Hugo Abi Karam, a meteorologist from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was more inclined to blame the surge on local factors, such as silt accumulation, poor drainage, seafront construction

But there is little doubt that Rio like much of south-east Brazil is suffering more storm surges, extreme rainfall and protracted droughts.

Given these long-term trends, Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory coalition of NGOs, said the recent wave damage was the latest sign that Brazil must fulfil its responsibilities to reduce carbon emissions, when it joins other countries in United Nations climate talks later this week.

This shows the high degree of vulnerability to climate change in Brazil, which has 7,400km of shoreline and 25% of its population living on the coast, he said. This extreme weather event must at least draw attention to the need for the country to be consistent on its climate policy and not invest in more fossil fuels thinking that it has already done a lot to curb emissions.

source http://allofbeer.com/2017/09/09/rios-famous-beaches-take-battering-as-scientists-issue-climate-change-warning/