Landfalling Hurricanes As A Proxy For US Temperatures

The graph above plots US landfalling hurricanes by decade vs. the 1999 version of GISS US temperatures. As you can see, there was excellent correlation from 1920-2000.

But then something funny happened in 2000. USHCN/GISS corrupted corrected  the US temperature record. It also indicates that the 1880-1920 GISS temperatures are probably too low.

The hurricane proxy no longer works. More evidence that the USHCN nature trick of cooling the past and warming the present is bogus.

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21 Responses to Landfalling Hurricanes As A Proxy For US Temperatures

  1. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    Wasn’t CO2 at a “safe” level in 1936 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

    The 30s were the hottest time in recent history, that is after the little Ice age.

  2. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    Thennnnnnnn the warming caused cold (remember) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_cold_wave

  3. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    Don’t forget 1955, better hide this one with some more funding for NASA.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave

    • Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

      http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/05/nasa-takes-on-climate-change-with-new-2-4b/

      NASA can’t get the right results, so time to launch Ten new missions, even though there are 13 satellites already up there, that’s not enough. There are not enough weather satellites in space, so we’ll have to blow the whole NASA budget sending up an army of satellites to check the weather (I mean climate), so we can keep an eye on the Ozone hole which was already there and try to find an iceberg that calves and blame it on a trace gas.

      OK, next we’ll cut the NASA budget for rockets, like Constellation and Aries to fund this all, so as we retire the space shuttle, we’ll make sure we have no rockets at all to go to the moon or Mars, even though the Chinese will get there in 2025 and take all the Helium 3 (which actually would be a good fuel for the future, but nahhhhhh we’ll just keep pretending we love the planet instead)

      So now we’ve saved all the that money, we’ll take that money, give it to NASA 2.4billion or so, to do climate change research, because the figures for Copenhagen 2009 were not “right” so we have to try harder, wasting money.

      But hey, everything else has to be Public, Health care, lots of things, but hey rockets, that’s not a government thing, they can go private, we’ll wait around and see if a private company goes to the moon or mars, but health care that’s public, we can’t pay for that. We can pay for rockets to Mars, but we can’t pay for health care? Why don’t we make the Afgan war private too? I mean rockets and space travels are private, so why not the army?

      Makes sense?

  4. Lazarus says:

    Steve, are you seriously suggesting a meaningful correlation between temperatures and only the hurricanes that made landfall in the US? I’d love to see your rational justification for this. I believe this year there were 21 tropical storms, 12 strong enough to be Hurricanes, and no US landfalls, which in itself was quite unusual;
    http://www.livescience.com/environment/2010-hurricane-season-tropical-storms-101026.html

  5. tarpon says:

    Should we change AGW to just simply “Making Stuff Up”?

  6. mt says:

    I think your hurricane graph is shifted by 5 years. The high point represents the number of hurricane landfalls between 1941-1950, right? That shouldn’t be plotted at 1940 against the temperature graph.

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