March 2012
The last two calendar years saw a total of 146 global tropical cyclones, the lowest 2-year total in records since at least 1970. In the past 24-months, including ongoing Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity, there have been a total of 141 global tropical storms. This is also a record low.
Time Magazine babbles mindlessly about global warming and hurricanes, without bothering to do any actual research.
And that’s with observational bias due to better satellite coverage after 1970.
Research is heresy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-isGzfYUZ4
They are advocates, they lie. And, they mindless imbeciles to boot. So, the expectation of any actual integrity or attempt at real journalism is a pretty low prospect.
Off topic, but amazing how they can get an accurate headcount of millions of species every year in order to determine this loss of biodiversity.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47421743/ns/technology_and_science-science/
What a load of crap. Let’s see their data.
No categorised cyclones crossed the Australian mainland this ‘ season’. (mid December 2011 – May 2012.) None, Nix, Nada, Nil.
Colder and Drier, ( as mooted by Alex S Gaddes in his book ‘Tomorrow’s Weather’ 1990.)
An updated version of this work (with ‘Dry’ Cycle forecasts to 2055,) is available as a free pdf from [email protected]