Thanks Fred Nerks. From the ‘blog of the local meteorologist:
Another Example of Bogus Facts
Posted By: Craig James on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 8:38 pm
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http://blogs.woodtv.com/?p=3587
The famous climate expert, Al Gore, made the following comment today on NPR:
“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”
[…] “Nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms – the larger ones and trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful.”
You just knew somebody would do it. It is a shame he didn’t take a look at the latest sea-surface temperature anomalies. The above chart is from NOAA’s Satellite Division and was taken from icecap.us where Joe D’Aleo has drawn a circle around the Bay of Bengal where the storm formed and headed east into Myanmar. Notice all the blue (click on the map for a larger view) indicating cooler than average water temperatures. By the way, this storm was only a category three, but why let the facts get in the way of a good story?
[also interesting]
Chaiten Volcano
Posted By: Craig James on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 9:04 pm
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