Re: Intense Hurricanes Increasing


"echo" <echo@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
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> "Scott" <ScottLWI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I'm curious what you all think of the Webster/Curry/Holland/Chang
> > study on the increase in cat 4/5 hurricanes in the past 35 years.
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> I saw somebody on TV mention that last night, and he attributed it to
an
> increase of one degree in heat. He wondered what would happen if the
> temperature increases 4 or 5 degrees?
> My idea is that these hurricanes have something to do with more water
in
> the atmopsphere due to glaciers melting, due mainly to the sun heating up
> over the last 100 years, and secondarily to smoking outdoors (I'm sure
> smokestack emissions have no bad effect, and that global warming is just
an
> environmental myth. Boy, it's hot today!)
> If there is more water in the atmosphere, then hurricanes may pack
more
> of a punch.
> What if the temperature goes up 4 or 5 degrees, which the talking head
> said might happen in the last decades of the 21st century? Will
hurricanes
> become so powerful that they will not break up but move far inland with
> Category 4 or 5 or maybe 7 or 8 force?
> Most likely the ultimate cause of stronger and more frequent hurricanes
> is the curse of some ancient North American Indian Chief.
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