Posted on 09/01/2005 12:40:33 PM PDT by frogjerk
http://www.techcentralstation.com/083105JKG.html
Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when such storms averaged 9 per decade. In the 1960s, there were 6 such storms; in the 1970s, 4; in the 1980s, 5; in the 1990s, 5; and for 2001-04, there were 3. Category 4 and 5 storms were also more prevalent in the past than they are now. As for Category 5 storms, there have been only three since the 1850s: in the decades of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s. For the North Atlantic as a whole, according to the United Nations Environment Programme of the World Meteorological Organization: "Reliable data…since the 1940s indicate that the peak strength of the strongest hurricanes has not changed, and the mean maximum intensity of all hurricanes has decreased."
Would you please stop interjecting facts, science, logic and reason into this. You are interrupting the MSM and far kooky left's emotional response to Hurrican Katrina. They just know that global warming is increasing and is the cause for Katrina because their emotions tell them so.
However Brit Hume had a guest on yesterday who claimed the data showed only a 10% correlation between water temperature and storm level. He claimed something else was accounting for the other 90% and he did not think studies that showed more linking were scientific.
Here's the question everyone should really be pondering: Why is mother nature doing what she has always done?
Where was this debate for Galveston, of the Okeechobee hurricane in Florida or Camille?
DIMS: "Facts and historical data have nothing to do with Katrina and Global Warming. It's BUSH'S FAULT!"
Translation: We need more grant money to study the "problem."
Anyone linking Katrina and fake global warming should resign their post now and be laughed out of the scientific community. There is absolutely no link or data. I can't understand how anyone would not dismiss anyone saying this as a total quack forever.
typical stupid reasoning......
Kyoto pickpocket didn't work..now blame the US for earthquakes too...
...take notice these clowns won't use data from the 1950's because it don't jive with what they say....
..and another thing....how come all glaciers aren't melting?
poppycock!!
Doogle
Who was the President then?
January 21, 2001. Didn't mean much to me at the time, but now...
(steely)
These used to be called "acts of God", now they're called "acts of Republicans". When did this change happen, since Pres. Bush or since the Kyoto travesty, or earlier?
Agreed. And by all means, refrain from any talk of increasing population and development in hurricane-prone areas, and the correspondingly greater likelihood that damage and displacement will result from any such storms. Truth was one of the earliest casualties of Katrina.
Where is our Francisco Franco when we need one?
Very few people actually disagree that global warming will lead to more dramatic weather.
The disagreement is over the CAUSE of global warming, and specifically if it is human caused, or naturally occurring.
They should get their argument correct. This article starts off on the wrong foot and steps into even further as it goes along.
There you go again. A damned bunch of facts.
This directly contradicts several experts in the field I saw on television about six months ago discussing this very topic. As noted in the post above, these scientists stated that the 1930's and 1940's produced a wave of hurricanes more numberous and powerful than what we have seen in the last 10 years. They all agreed that hurricanes have historically appeared in waves that lasted a decade or two and would then decrease in number and intensity for a few decades only to come back again with a vengence. This tends to strongly refute the assertion that modern "gobal warming" is reponsible for waves of hurricanes.
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