Posted on 01/23/2008 10:00:23 AM PST by neverdem
Considering the accuracy of the forcasters of late, I’d say the Atlantic seaboard is in big trouble.
Based on the past track record of hurricane predictions, I would start buying plywood sheets, electric generators and make plans to head for high ground.
Possibly, but a sub-tropical storm (which is now a named storm) can still hit land and add to the 'hurricane' totals. I'm not sure how the change might affect that count.
And, of course, there were little hints with that news that it could be because of global warming.
Old theory: Global warming increases hurricanes
New theory: Global warming decreases hurricanes
Scenario 1: More hurricanes
Conclusion: Old theory correct
Scenario 2: Fewer hurricanes
Conclusion: New theory correct
Common theme: Global warming is bad and must be stopped
I thought Al Gorebal-warming told us that warming oceans increased hurricanes. Guess I am mistaken...
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ping~~
But wait...
Al Gore told us 3 years ago that the debate was over, and the science was settled about the cause and effects of Global Warming. And researchers had confidently concluded that Global Warming would produce MORE hurricane activity.
How is all the energy that used to drive hurricanes dissipated? I bet higher evaporation and rainfall. In net all very good.
When the "experts" predict fewer hurricanes the odds are there will be more.
Predictions been so far off the last two years that a blind monkey rolling dice could have made a more accurate guess.
If "experts" say the odds are down that means we will be restocking emergency gear and keeping the Bail-Out bags by the door
W’s fault.
In all seriousness, though, what is the time frame for that picture? (And no, I'm not thinking "Maybe I'll be dead by then, so this is not my problem.")
Our cities and power plants already make man-made clouds, as evidenced by the substantially increased rainfall downwind of these heat islands. All these doomsday predictions assume there is no technology we can use to do anything.
During the 1996-2005 decade the yearly average of USA Hurricane damage (in 2005 dollars) was $19.859 Billion. GW can save us a lot of money!
The last two years there were predictions of record numbers of hurricanes hitting the USA because of global warming. What happened? Nothing. Now they are reversing their predictions and saying they were wrong. I think the GW priesthood doesn’t know what they don’t know.
Al Gore’s books and movie was wrong will he give his Nobel Prize back.
So what.
We could go 50 years without a hurricane and our insurance rates won’t drop a penny.
No time frame is given. Most sea level rise scenarios in excess of 50 cm depend on ice sheet behavior and the rate of warming in the next several decades.
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