Ya think?
Posted on 06/07/2007 8:39:52 AM PDT by nypokerface
NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- A study by U.S. and Swedish researchers says the surge in major Atlantic hurricanes may not be tied to increasing global warming.
The report, published in the journal Nature, says the storm surge may be a return to normal storm patterns. The researchers say major hurricanes were nearly as frequent from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s, the Los Angeles Times said Wednesday.
Study co-author Terrence Quinn, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said the number of major hurricanes from the late 1960s to the early 1990s was unusually light.
The researchers, who studied long cylinders of coral from reefs in the Caribbean, found that from 1730 there was an average each year of 3-3.5 major hurricanes. By the late 1960s, the frequency had fallen to 1.5 major hurricanes a year. The average between 1995 and 2005 jumped to 4.1 a year.
The report said vertical wind shear may have caused the reduction of hurricanes. When wind shear is high, it is more difficult for hurricanes to form and gain strength, the report said.
Terrence Quinn, off to Rehab for you!
There is little historic about weather. Historians create patterns, though, even when there are none.
Global Warming is responsible for EVERYTHING! Including AlGore's 2000 election loss and my Male Pattern Baldness!
It’s so odd that anyone thinks we can predict or change the weather. I wonder if any of these people ever simply go outside and look up at the sky. If they did they might figure out it’s a darn big place with lots of things happening. Too many things happening for any human or human made device to understand.
Not global warming???
But, but, but Algore says it’s the root cause for everything from melting ice caps to bedsores!
The truth is, When it comes to weather, there is Nothing that is happening today that did not also occure at some time in the past.
It shows they run on a roughly 50-year cycle, peaking last in the 1940's, so we're due for an increase.
" off to Jeez. What does it take to make the news forum these days? I think FR moderation has been taken over by an army of Miss Grundys.
I knew it was cyclical.....but the libs just would not listen...
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Woo hoo!
Yet another spike pounded into the keening hearts of the Global Warming hysterics crowd.
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