Some Consensus
Keith_Indy on Jan 24 2008 at 3:15 pm | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Environment, Keith's Page
Let’s see if I have this straight…
that means “global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States,” according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Miami Lab and the University of Miami.
No, it doesn’t…
Critics say Wang’s study is based on poor data that was rejected by scientists on the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They said that at times only one in 10 North Atlantic hurricanes hit the U.S. coast and the data reflect only a small percentage of storms around the globe.
Oh, they’re only talking about STRONG hurricanes…
One group of climate scientists has linked increases in the strongest hurricanes — just those with winds greater than 130 mph — in the past 35 years to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said “more likely than not,” manmade global warming has already increased the frequency of the most intense storms.
No it doesn’t…
But hurricane researchers, especially scientists at NOAA’s Miami Lab, have argued that the long-term data for all hurricanes show no such trend. And Wang’s new research suggests just the opposite of the view that more intense hurricanes result from global warming.
And in fact, there’s no way we can know right now…
The Miami faction points to a statement by an international workshop on tropical cyclones that says “no firm conclusion can be made on this point.”
Got it???
Neither do I.
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It means that more scientists are balking at the demand they adhere to doctrine rather than do science.
It’s not enough these days to agree that global warming is happening, you have to agree with those outside your field that the results of warming must necessarily be catastrophic.