There are 30% fewer hurricanes then we had in the 30's 40's and 50's.
Sep 14, 2018 11:40:27 #
G****l w*****g — or its conveniently vague replacement, “c*****e c****e” — is being used as a scapegoat for everything these days.
Wildfires in California? G****l w*****g.
Can’t find a job? C*****e c****e (yes, really.)
Winter blizzards in New York? G****l w*****g, er, c*****e c****e, um, anything but calling it “weather.”
The latest in the long trend of linking everything plus the kitchen sink to c*****e c****e are seasonal hurricanes.
For the last several years, the wide-eyed left has tried desperately to pin tropical storms — which have been part of coastal life for all of recorded history — on man-made environmental meddling. As this year’s hurricane season spins up, they’re at it again, but an actual climate expert just put them in their place.
Despite hysterical claims to the contrary, storms have actually not been increasing in intensity over time.
That’s the conclusion of Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a former climate studies scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and author who holds a Ph.D. in meteorology.
Using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Spencer pointed out that while the cost of storm damage has been going up in the United States, the hurricanes themselves do not appear to be any more powerful than they used to be.
If g****l w*****g was dramatically increasing and leading to ever more powerful hurricanes, as some have suggested, there would be a clear increase in intensity over time. But there isn’t.
In fact, the trend line of major storm intensity between 1930 and today shows that hurricanes impacting the U.S. have decreased in power slightly, not increased.
Plus there are 30% fewer hurricanes then we had in the 30's 40's and 50's. In the 30's we had 7 come ashore one year.
The reason that there has been a rise in storm damage lately is that cities in coastal areas are growing.
And building a million dollar house on the beach is asking for trouble.
“U.S. Government analysis of the 30 most costly hurricane disasters in U.S. history (shows) that increasing damages are due to increasing population density and infrastructure vulnerability, not due to storm intensity,” Spencer pointed out.
Critics will no doubt scoff at this reasonable explanation, but Spencer knows what he’s talking about.
“Before becoming a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites,” his bio states.
“Dr. Spencer’s work with NASA continues as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of g****l w*****g,” it continues.
Those are impressive credentials. Once again, it looks like the science is far from “settled” when it comes to c*****e c****e, and accomplished scientists are not as unified in their devotion to g****l w*****g theories as the media would have you believe.
With hurricane season here, there will no doubt be more and more stories trying to spin a narrative of man-made c*****e c****e as the cause of storms.
This is agenda-driven guesswork at best and deceptive pseudo-science at worst. Studying and understanding the world around us is vitally important… but so is being honest about the findings and not jumping to conclusions for political reasons. That’s worth remembering.
Wildfires in California? G****l w*****g.
Can’t find a job? C*****e c****e (yes, really.)
Winter blizzards in New York? G****l w*****g, er, c*****e c****e, um, anything but calling it “weather.”
The latest in the long trend of linking everything plus the kitchen sink to c*****e c****e are seasonal hurricanes.
For the last several years, the wide-eyed left has tried desperately to pin tropical storms — which have been part of coastal life for all of recorded history — on man-made environmental meddling. As this year’s hurricane season spins up, they’re at it again, but an actual climate expert just put them in their place.
Despite hysterical claims to the contrary, storms have actually not been increasing in intensity over time.
That’s the conclusion of Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a former climate studies scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and author who holds a Ph.D. in meteorology.
Using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Spencer pointed out that while the cost of storm damage has been going up in the United States, the hurricanes themselves do not appear to be any more powerful than they used to be.
If g****l w*****g was dramatically increasing and leading to ever more powerful hurricanes, as some have suggested, there would be a clear increase in intensity over time. But there isn’t.
In fact, the trend line of major storm intensity between 1930 and today shows that hurricanes impacting the U.S. have decreased in power slightly, not increased.
Plus there are 30% fewer hurricanes then we had in the 30's 40's and 50's. In the 30's we had 7 come ashore one year.
The reason that there has been a rise in storm damage lately is that cities in coastal areas are growing.
And building a million dollar house on the beach is asking for trouble.
“U.S. Government analysis of the 30 most costly hurricane disasters in U.S. history (shows) that increasing damages are due to increasing population density and infrastructure vulnerability, not due to storm intensity,” Spencer pointed out.
Critics will no doubt scoff at this reasonable explanation, but Spencer knows what he’s talking about.
“Before becoming a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites,” his bio states.
“Dr. Spencer’s work with NASA continues as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of g****l w*****g,” it continues.
Those are impressive credentials. Once again, it looks like the science is far from “settled” when it comes to c*****e c****e, and accomplished scientists are not as unified in their devotion to g****l w*****g theories as the media would have you believe.
With hurricane season here, there will no doubt be more and more stories trying to spin a narrative of man-made c*****e c****e as the cause of storms.
This is agenda-driven guesswork at best and deceptive pseudo-science at worst. Studying and understanding the world around us is vitally important… but so is being honest about the findings and not jumping to conclusions for political reasons. That’s worth remembering.
Sep 14, 2018 12:38:22 #
Capt-jack wrote:
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Here's a few quotes concerning the narrative of c*****e c****e.
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole," said Edendhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on C*****e C****e Working Group on Mitigation of C*****e C****e from 2008-2015. "we redistribute de facto the worlds's wealth by climate policy".
He then said "the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economic summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated"
Words of former U.N. climate official Ottmar Edenhofer
"This is the first time in human history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,"
"this is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally t***sform the economic development model for the first time in human history."
Christiana Figueres
Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on C*****e C****e
Sep 14, 2018 13:01:19 #
Capt-jack wrote:
G****l w*****g — or its conveniently vague replace... (show quote)
Welcome Capt. Jack. It seems that you have seen or heard the same thing about these storms decreasing. I applaud you for posting this vital statistic for the foolish and gullible of people on this site that believe only the false narrative of a growing of storms instead of the t***h. This post is very well put but be prepared for those on the left to dispute you logic.
Have a great day and hope to see more posts from you!
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