Somebidy tell Barbra, will ya?
Posted on 09/26/2005 10:37:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The chief of the National Hurricane Center yesterday said the intensity of hurricanes slamming the Gulf Coast is not the result of global warming but rather is part of a "normal cycle" that likely will result in one or two more severe storms before the season ends Nov. 30.
"Hurricanes, and especially major hurricanes, are cyclical," said Max Mayfield, the center's director. "We'll have a few decades of really active hurricanes, and then inactive periods, followed by active periods again."
A cycle of severe storms plagued the U.S. from the 1940s through the 1960s when sea surface temperatures were warmer than normal. Those temperatures cooled in the 1970s and for the next 25 years, Mr. Mayfield told CBS' "Face the Nation." When sea temperatures began rising again in 1995, the severity of storms increased.
"So I think that this activity that we're in can be explained without invoking global warming. And the bad news here is that we are in this active period, and the research meteorologists tell us that it may last another 10 or 20 years," Mr. Mayfield said.
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No, dammit!
It's global warming! Our insensitivity toward the environment has come back to haunt us.
It can't be any other possibility other than global warming!
I feel so guilty. So should ALL of you!
I'll have to write a check to the Sierra Club or Greenpeace when I get home from work!
Somebody did tell her, but that AAMCO transmission guy she is married too was making so much tranny noise she did not hear it?ha!
Dang, here I was starting to believe that it's all because George Bush dosen't like black people!
We had a local tv meterologist (now retired) who once said that weather is cyclical. He didn't believe any of this global warming, greenhouse effect nonsense. I believe him.
We've had years that were relatively quiet as to hurricanes. I've been through winters when I walked around in short sleeves. I've seen cool, damp summers. Probably all of us have stories of freaky weather in our necks of the woods. Doesn't mean a dang thing.
In HIS opinion the cycle is normal. That may or MAY not be. He has no proof one way or another. The GW people have no proof either. The oceans are warmer than usual. Nobody can argue against that. IF we are in a normal period of GLOBAL WARMING (not caused by mankind) then the hurricanes would be stronger. To dismiss global warming as the cause for intense hurricanes is stupid.
I would say a lot of people are STUCK on stupid. People are too quick to dismiss the the planet is in a warm period simply because they can't stand the democrats and their stand on this issue.
People can ignore the warming of the planet all they want but it won't change the fact that we are in a warm period.
Please read:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/images/graytranscript.htm
http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2005/april2005/
David
And the usual temperature was? Over say the last 2000 years?
To dismiss global warming as the cause for intense hurricanes is stupid.
No, it is reasonable. As we had far more intense hurricane seasons before "global warming".
If the earth is actually warming back up (in other words we are returning to normal global temperatures) then evidence suggests that the warming is causing fewer hurricanes that are of less intensity.
Here's a blast from the past that shows just how nuts the global warming crowd is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310991/posts
The idiots think in terms of years or decades instead of millennia.
Which is as logical as doing it in hours. IIRC we are still 2 full degrees Celsius cooler now then we were 2000 years ago.
We had a drop of seven degrees of which we have only regained 4 point something
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