[Names Ash Housewares]

Katrina and disgusting exploitation...

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."

[FlipWilson]

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.

[frogjerk]

DIMS: "Facts and historical data have nothing to do with Katrina and Global Warming. It's BUSH'S FAULT!"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There you go again. A damned bunch of facts.

[joebuck]

"The past 10 years have been the most active hurricane seasons on record, and many researchers say the trend could persist for another 20 years or more."

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.