“Is global warming to blame for the last two horrific hurricane seasons?
Yes, says Judith A. Curry, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
As a result of global warming, hurricane seasons now are five days longer on average than they were 100 years ago, Curry said. In addition, the United States has suffered a “precipitous increase” in hurricane strikes in the last 10 years.”
April 15, 2006
Apr 15, 2006, page 61 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com
This was right at the beginning of the longest hurricane drought in US history.
“Hurricanes, large and small, have eluded U.S. shores for record lengths of time. As population and wealth along parts of the U.S. coast have exploded since the last stormy period, experts dread the potential damage and harm once the drought ends.
Three historically unprecedented droughts in landfalling U.S. hurricanes are presently active.
A major hurricane hasn’t hit the U.S. Gulf or East Coast in more than a decade. A major hurricane is one containing maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph and classified as Category 3 or higher on the 1-5 Saffir-Simpson wind scale. (Hurricane Sandy had transitioned to a post tropical storm when it struck New Jersey in 2012, and was no longer classified as a hurricane at landfall, though it had winds equivalent to a Category 1 storm.) The streak has reached 3,937 days, longer than any previous drought by nearly two years.”
August 4, 2016
Judith Curry – well now she’s only a luke warmer. But I have never liked any of her more recent writings. She drones on with useless/endless nonsense in a completely unreadable manner and her arguments are wishy washy at best even though she sort of argues against the alarmist narrative now.
Was it Einstein who said “if you cannot explain it in simple terms, you do not understand it!”
I bought her book as she CAME out of the GW Closet – her book was so boring beyond BORING like an Obama biography
Or Denzel Washington as the attorney learning about AIDS from Tom Hanks in “Philadelphia Story” said “Just explain it to me like I’m six years old”.
Great one. Need to make a cartoon out of it and it needs to go worldwide.
Apparently the U.S. is in a war, with the weather. This meteorologist uses battle language and tells us that bomb cyclones are taking aim on and blasting the Northwest . . . .
Bomb cyclone with atmospheric river to blast Northwest, part of California
A storm packing inches of rain, feet of snow and damaging winds will all affect areas from Oregon to Northern California and Washington as a combination atmospheric river and bomb cyclone take aim.
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Nov 18, 2024 3:15 PM EST | Updated Nov 19, 2024 6:12 AM EST
Sure, somebody’s house may float away. Or, it might get blown down. But it is nothing new. It has happened myriad times before, all over the world. Sure, it may be terrifying for some. But, none of it is extreme, nor is any of it unprecedented. We are not being bombed, nor blasted, nor in the crosshairs of some evil villain who goes by the name of weather.
I am getting weary of the hyperbole. It is weather. And sometimes we get bad weather.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/bomb-cyclone-with-atmospheric-river-to-blast-northwest-part-of-california/1715099
Actually, I think we often get bad weather. It’s just that we have become so technologically advanced that we are buffered from it, and when we see it on TV, we think that it is abnormal.
When you see these disasters, one should begin to comprehend why his ancestors weren’t social justice warriors, they were too busy surviving to worry about everyone else.
Anyone know the latest news on the Russia/Biden nuclear war chicken game? I think Biden is a psychopath and doesn’t give a damn if he gets half of his people killed. He is the truth new Hitler.