Global Warming

[BallHawk]

Damn. You must of started drinking at the crack of dawn to come up with that.

[Kiwon]

Gee, I hate it when the weather won't cooperate with the doomsday scenarios.

Two years in a row with very little hurricane activity. When, oh when, will the east coast be under water and I can make some money in my real estate investments?
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"Unless a dramatic and perhaps historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy)."

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Gee, I hate it when the weather won't cooperate with the doomsday scenarios.

Two years in a row with very little hurricane activity. When, oh when, will the east coast be under water and I can make some money in my real estate investments?
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"Unless a dramatic and perhaps historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy)."

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

Once again, proving you know very little. First, no one predicted a doomsday scenario. Second, hurricane prediction/forecast is done by the gov't.

The IAPC never said there was a clear link between global warming and frequency. “[t]here is no clear trend in the annual numbers [i.e. frequency] of tropical cyclones.” What part of that don't you understand? What the IAPC did address was the clear data that the frequency of storms in the North Atlantic had risen dramatically. And, even then they didn't say it was because of global warming.

What they did address was intensity, it is “more likely than not” (better than even odds) that there is a human contribution to the observed trend of hurricane intensification since the 1970s.

In the North Atlantic, for which we have the best records, there has been a clear increase in the number and intensity of tropical storms and major hurricanes. From 1850-1990, the overall average number of tropical storms was about 10, including about 5 hurricanes. Since 1995, the 10-year average has risen dramatically, with the 1997-2006 average at about 14 tropical storms, including about 8 hurricanes. This increase in frequency correlates strongly with the rise in North Atlantic sea surface temperature, and recent peer-reviewed scientific studies link this temperature increase to global warming.

I'm sure you are also fully versed on the effects of El Nino and la nina and other things that can effect weather.

Oh, btw, perhaps it is time for you to learn the difference tween weather and CLIMATE.

[Kiwon]

"Look, Buzz, an alien!..........BAHHHAH"

[mraynrand]

From 1850-1990, the overall average number of tropical storms was about 10, including about 5 hurricanes. Since 1995, the 10-year average has risen dramatically, with the 1997-2006 average at about 14 tropical storms, including about 8 hurricanes.

There's nothing that science values as much as an N value of 1. One ten year period - and a claim that the "10-year average has risen dramatically." But I'm certain there are plenty of 'peer reviewed' CLIMATE journals that will publish those findings.

[Freak Out]

This is as good as place as any to put this shale oil link...I thought about the market correction post but this works as well. It's to long to cut and paste so here goes:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/index.htm

[Tyrone Bigguns]

From 1850-1990, the overall average number of tropical storms was about 10, including about 5 hurricanes. Since 1995, the 10-year average has risen dramatically, with the 1997-2006 average at about 14 tropical storms, including about 8 hurricanes.

There's nothing that science values as much as an N value of 1. One ten year period - and a claim that the "10-year average has risen dramatically." But I'm certain there are plenty of 'peer reviewed' CLIMATE journals that will publish those findings.

I quoted those..they are from the scientists, not from me.

More importantly, i didn't address the world, specifically only North Atlantic.