Global Warming Is Expected to Raise Hurricane Intensity

NY Times ^ | September 30, 2004 | ANDREW C. REVKIN

[neverdem]

FWIW, this is your tax dollars at work. I'm still skeptical about this greenhouse gases theory. Nobody ever mentions increased solar activity.

[neverdem]

ping

[trashcanbred]

Hmm the hurricanes have been hitting hard... Let's use our gift of hindsight to state that hurricanes will increase because of global warming...

[Tax Government]

What global warming, you NYT hallucinating morons?

[flashbunny]

How environmentalist 'scietists' conduct computer modeling:

Keep changing the numbers in the simulation until you get the desired result. Once your preconceived notion is confirmed, publish your findings.

[Bogey78O]

At this rate we'll have 300 hurricanes per year by 2030!!!!!

Shortsighted people can never understand cyclical events.

[swilhelm73]

If it rains more, it is global warming.

If it rains less, it is global warming.

If it gets hotter, it is global warming.

If it gets colder, it is global warming.

Does that about cover it?

[DSBull]

Global warming is a theory and only a theory. There are reputable Scientists that discount the global warming theory.
They say that since we don't have recorded documentation on global temperatures going back thousands of years there is no way to if we are going through global warming or a normal fluctuation in the earths temperature....

So there!

[cupcakes]

I guess the same global "warming" that gave Ohio one of its coolest summers on record(sarcasm off). I think in central OH, we had 3 days of 90 degree or more days--very unusual!

[DSBull]

"know" is the missing word

[Shortstop7]

Yeah....I think you covered it pretty well. But if the average temp rises 1.5 to 2 degrees over 125,000 years......... WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! Run for your lives!

[Texas Eagle]

Experts also said that rising sea levels caused by global warming would lead to more flooding from hurricanes -

I'm no expert and I didn't see in the article what would cause sea levels to rise but I am going to assume it would be the melting of the polar ice caps. If that's the case, wouldn't that actually cool the seas thereby counter-acting the greenhouse effect?

[Hank All-American]

Would somebody mind explaining to me how we ever emerged from the ice age without factories spewing flouro-carbons into the atmosphere? Wasn't that an example of global warming? Or am I missing something? Like did FDR or Kennedy just legislate natural climate change away and now Bush is wrecking it by dismantling the program?

Enquiring minds want to know.

[Moconservative]

I agree anything that happens is tied to global warming. When Kerry loses he will blame it on global warming.

[Arizona Carolyn]

They explained this on weather channel a couple of weeks ago: every 30+/- years the oceans do a turnover and the Atlantic gets hoter/colder and the Pacific will go just the opposite. When this happens we have more or less hurricanes, depending on the turnover conditions. They said people have become accustomed to fewer-milder hurricanes and since it's been so quiet millions of people have populated the shore line from Texas to Maine and that in itself is a recipe for disaster.

So right now the drought persists in the West with few tropical storms in the Pacific and the Atlantic has become very active. Could last a year, could last 20, no one knows!

[COURAGE]

This is crap. Global Warming decreases hurricanes. As the temperate zones warm up, the heat in the tropics go further north and south, hence the energy that is needed for hurricanes is spread over a wider area. These idiots do not even know the laws of thermodynamics.

[kaehurowing]

You forgot to say that global warming will trigger the next Ice Age.

I just saw a movie about it, so it must be true.

[Sofa King]

My thoughts exactly. This is laughably transparent. It reminds me of people reading things out of Nostradomas and then straining to make them fit something that has happened, then turning around and claiming how amazing it was at he could predict it.

[Ptarmigan]

Global Warming is not all doom and gloom. People in Russia and other cold areas would like it. Also, global warming means it will wash the left out to sea.

[denydenydeny]

I want to be the first to say, "I question the timing of this report."