Re: Has climate change made hurricanes fiercer, or are such claims hot air?



Bruce Scott TOK <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
> Jim P wrote:

> >Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> [Earth Science]
> >> The Wind and the Fury: Has climate change made hurricanes
> >> fiercer, or are such claims hot air?
> >
> >> New research suggests that, as global warming proceeds,
> >> hurricane winds will gain speed and the storms will dump
> >> more rain, but controversy lingers as to how much more
> >> violent the storms will become and when they will occur.
> >
> >> http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050917/bob8.asp
> >
> >Graph of US landfalling hurricanes from 1851 to 2004 from NOAA data
> >shows no change over 150 years:
> >
> >http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Hurricane_index.gif

> You forgot to note that sea surface temperature (SST) is the thing
> expected to be related to hurricane strength, and also that SST is the
> last of the global warming signals expected to become visible due to the
> time lag. For real science by real professionals in the field you can
> do worse than reading the following site:

Get back to me when you have hurricane data that show a change.

When and if that happens we can compare SST to hurricanes and see if
there is any coorelation.

The weather doesn't care what anyone "expects".

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