GLOBAL WARMING And Hurricanes, you thoughts?

Question

I am in the middle of a fairly small hurricane.

But I am thinking about answers to my last question, who seem to blame all these events on global warming.

What are your thoughts, about crazy wether?

Answer 1

I've lived in Hurricane Alley all of my life (east coast of NC), we even named our hockey team after the storm!  The storms today are no more powerful or frequent than they've ever been.  Look it up and see for yourself.  The only reason records keep getting set for storm damage totals is because more people live on the coast today than they did 30 years ago (and houses are worth 3 times as much).

Answer 2

I love that there is a hurricane named dolly hitting the south.

But if the world continues to go through climate change, with average temperatures rising over the course of years, we can expect to see weather patterns become more extreme. Now that doesn't mean that every year we will have more hurricanes. El nino, which can all but stop the atlantic hurricane season becomes more extreme as well.

We can also expect worse droughts, floods, thunderstorms and worse snow storms even.

But if you look over the past decade, Atlantic water temperatures have risen which goes hand in hand with more hurricanes. Its pretty simple...the warmer the water, the more hurricane there can be. Whether or not that can be attributed to global warming is up for debate. But the facts are there.

Answer 3

I think hurricanes were around long before "global warming."

Global warming killed my dog.  True story.

Answer 4

In 2003 and 2004, when hurricane damage was up because of an increase in coastal development, and in 2005 when hurricanes were more frequent and more powerful, and in 2006 when they thought the trend in 2005 would continue, they said global warming causes more frequent and more powerful hurricanes:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Science/story?...

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-5817067...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=1...

But then a funny thing happened. The trend reversed – hurricanes, as anyone not living in a cave has noticed, have since become less frequent and weaker.  In reality hurricanes follow 25-30-year cycles, always have, and they thought there were a few more years left on the bad side so they “predicted” more bad hurricane seasons and said that that’s what global warming caused.   A few mild seasons means the cycle has shifted and most of the next 20 will also be mild.  

They don’t want to hear “hey Al, where’d the hurricanes go” for the next 20 years.

So, as if on cue, they’ve changed their story to, you guess it, hurricanes are made weaker and less frequent by…. (drum roll please)….. global warming!

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/200...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/2...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk...

This is just another example, along with polar bear populations declining / growing, seas getting saltier / less salty, snowfall declining / increasing, and even warming versus cooling itself, the only consistency in anything the warmers have to say is this equation:

X happens, they say global warming causes X.

Y, the opposite of X, happens, they say global warming causes Y.

EDIT - the problem with aaron's comment of course is that the AGW proponents have tried to pin natural disasters such as hurricanes on global warming and then have changed their story.    NOW the story is that it's impossible.   Well, great, thank you for that, that takes a load of my mind - but it's contrary to the last two explanation the AGW proponents had.

It's not that each iteration doesn't make some intuitive sense - it's that each iteration is completely different from the last, and remains the party line only until the weather changes, and then there's a new iteration.

Generally speaking I do not believe the side that can't keep its story straight.

Answer 5

Theres no way to correlate weather events with GW. This is good for the deniers because they can make the dumbest statements imaginable and get away with them. Things like "scientists can't even predict how many hurricanes there will be this year therefore... everything they say is useless.".

And the AGW joe blows will try to attribute every little thing to GW, get called on it by deniers, and then the deniers will try to blame the entire field of GW science for being just as silly as the one person who made the statement.

It is just like evolution. Bevcause you can't see it with your own eyes happening, the deniers will always be able to deny it.

Answer 6

Hurricane Dolly?

hurricanes are not the result of global warming, they are a natural phenomenon that occurs anyways

as for global warming, the potential disasters are much worse than just hurricanes

as of now, the US is the largest polluter, followed by China (not too sure, though)

and for crazy weather, try seeing tornadoes in California, which has happened...

Answer 7

I think it's got to do mainly with the large scale deforestation that's been going in the past 100 years + increasing number of pollutants being released into the atmosphere. And we have China spraying chemicals in the air so that it doesn't rain during the Olympics, isn't that just wonderful . I just hope we don't end up with summer all year round..... Can u imagine, they'll preserve snow in museums... probably rain drops too.  You'll tell your great grandkids what it felt like during the first monsoon.

I'm pretty sure we'll have an artificial atmosphere 100 years down the line, who cares, I'm gonna be in outer space by that time.

Answer 8

After Hurricane Katrina, scientists said that Global Warming would increase the number of catastrophic hurricanes like Katrina.

After Katrina there have been 0 like it.

Hurricanes happen. Hurrican Dolly is small, and those like it happen naturally and have been happening through the ages.  Global warming has nothing to do with it.

Oh my gosh!  It's a small hurricane!  It's a normal small hurricane!  That's SO CRAZY!  /sarcasm.