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.
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.
Thennnnnnnn the warming caused cold (remember) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_cold_wave
Don’t forget 1955, better hide this one with some more funding for NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
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?
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
Well Al Gore did say when it gets hotter, there are more hurricanes RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
So you believe politicians over scientists – that figures.
I thought Al Gore was a scientist, his informative documentary is shown in schools all over the world.
No you need to educate yourself. Gore is a politician with a political agenda. If you get your ‘science’ from blogs and politicians it does say a lot about the quality of your comments.
Well congress and Copenhagen called him up all the time. I get my information from Science. Real Science.
So you think him a credible source for science despite not have any qualifications? No wonder you get your science from unqualified bloggers.
Al Gore had a whole group of scientists consulting on his work to verify he got his fantasy aligned to their fantasy. When AIT was put together that was the so called scientific consensus.
How come Cyclone Tracey destroyed Darwin in 1974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD0DRmWQ65Y during the global cooling that Phil Jones thinks was a travesty? None has hit since then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJbZK8VPis&feature=related Remember an Ice Age was coming, and Darwin was destroyed, the Climatologists are so smart
Is that a serious question or do you think acting stupid makes you look cute? The has always been hurricanes in the tropics regardless of cool years.
But Al Gore said they will come and get us because it’s warmer. He said Katrina was due to global warming. Well 1974 was warmer then 1743, so it must have been the coal that Queen Elizabeth the 1st burnt that caused the 1974 cyclone. Your so 1990s not understanding the link between the two.
You seem to believe / disbelieve politicians on scientific matters depending on if they are telling you what you want to hear or not.
Read Landsea. You can not make historical comparisons by any other measure.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/landsea-eos-may012007.pdf
Should we change AGW to just simply “Making Stuff Up”?
It seems to be reduced to that at this point.
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.