Study Blames Climate Change for Hurricanes (Amount Doubled Over Past Century)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Study blames climate change for hurricanes
Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:51PM EDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - The number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season has doubled in the last century due in part to warmer seas and changing wind patterns caused by global warming, according to a study released on Sunday.

Hurricane researchers have debated for years whether climate change caused by greenhouse gases from cars, factories and other human activity is resulting in more, and more intense, tropical storms and hurricanes.

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In the new study, conducted by Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Peter Webster of Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers found three periods since 1900 when the average number of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes increased sharply, and then leveled off and remained steady.

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From 1900 to 1930, Atlantic hurricane seasons saw six storms on average, with four hurricanes and two tropical storms. From 1930 to 1940, the annual average rose to ten, including five hurricanes. From 1995 to 2005, the average rose to 15, with eight hurricanes and seven tropical storms, the researchers said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2932962720070730?feedType=RSS

[saltpoint]

1. It's the liberal media that's to blame. And Bill Clinton's wienie and Jane

Fonda and Michael Moore and secular humanism.

Let's put it where it goes.

[WCGreen]

2. Now that's just silly...

People weren't living, like they are now, where hurricans struck in the last century...

No way to measure...

No way to track the storms that didn't hit populated areas...

I am a firm believer in Global Warming but this is just bad science since the data collected now is ar superior to the data collected even in the 1940's...

[Kagemusha]

3. Here's the 'scientists' trying to defend their study, from the same article.

But Holland and Webster said the improved data from the last half of the century cannot be solely responsible for the increase.

"We are led to the confident conclusion that the recent upsurge in the tropical cyclone frequency is due in part to greenhouse warming, and this is most likely the dominant effect," the authors wrote.

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It'd have been nice if they'd detailed to the media what is it that "led" them to this "confident conclusion," because it sure as hell ain't studying the frequency of hurricanes. It's outside bias they happily bring to the subject matter.

[lovuian]

4. Flooding is really going to continue to be a very big problem

for everybody and its going to get worse

[Kagemusha]

5. And that has not one thing to do with the study here.

Scientists should follow the scientific method, IMHO. The conclusion they came up with might as well be based on your statement just now as from the study being cited. It's equally valid evidence.

[cobalt1999]

7. Yes it is.

With numbers as small as 6-14 storms per year, not having accurate data is HUGE! They also never discuss how they came to the conclusion better data (which should drive the number up), isn't the largest factor.

I hate bad science.

[Ian David]

6. No, it's the sodomites and Daylight Savings!

The human rectum has no natural lubrication. Which means more friction. And more friction generates more heat, which increases global warming.

Also, when we set our clocks back an hour so that we get more daylight, the Earth heats up!

See also:


Anti-Gay Holocaust Revisionist Brian Camenker complaining and lying again
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x53536

And

Daylight Savings Exacerbates Global Warming
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x97804

[cobalt1999]

8. for those interested...

Instead of the journalists report of the study, here is the actual study. Still don't see how they can ignore the increase of data though.

www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/holland/files/NaturalVariabilityOrClimateTrend.pdf