Wait, wut?
Posted on 06/14/2022 5:52:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The evidence that hurricane activity is at a historical low is hiding on the Caribbean seafloor, tucked away in odd geological features called blue holes.
Blue holes are similar to sinkholes but on a much grander scale. They can be 300 meters deep, like the Dragon Hole in the South China Sea, or 300 meters wide, like the aptly named Great Blue Hole in Belize. The Bahamas is home to the world’s greatest concentration of blue holes, making it an appealing destination for paleotempestologists—scientists who study historical tropical cyclone activity.
The seafloor at the base of a blue hole acts like a calendar of past storms. Much like an ice core or tree ring grows season after season, the sediment at the bottom of a blue hole builds up over time. Natural currents coax a sugary sprinkle of small sand grains into the hole, while violent hurricanes pitch larger grains into the pit. By comparing layers of coarse and fine grains in this sedimentary lasagna, researchers can count how many hurricanes passed nearby. What makes a blue hole a valuable long-term record is that once this sediment settles, there’s very little activity in the pit to disturb it.
Hine’s Hole, a 340-meter-wide hole that penetrates the seafloor in the western Bahamas, offers a prime example of a blue hole hurricane record. It sits halfway between Cuba and the Florida Keys and is far from any landform, so it can chronicle weaker storms that blow in from any direction. The base of the hole is also low in oxygen, so no animals live there to disrupt the delicate sediment. A steady surface current shooting over the hole sends two to three centimeters of sand tumbling into Hine’s Hole each year.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
A few years ago they said there were too many hurricanes, and that was caused by "climate change" too.
Hey Ben - link doesn’t work. Would like to see the source article please.
Wait, wut?
The funniest thing was after Katrina (I rode it out in Jackson MS) Al Gore said that ultra-hurricanes were going to continue. Then for a decade, only 1 small hurricane (Sandy) hit the US.
Thank you!
So the article shows that hurricane activity in the GOM has decreased markedly since the industrial revolution.
To me this says our activities are reducing extreme weather, rather than making the weather worse as the alarmists preach.
Expect this news to never see the light if day on the MSM.
Joe Bastardi had a number of historical observations about hurricanes in his Saturday Summary, the free video toward the bottom of the page.
2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast.
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Exactly the opposite of what the "Warmists" climate hysterics have told us.
“The evidence that hurricane activity is at a historical low is hiding on the Caribbean seafloor, tucked away in odd geological features called blue holes.”
This probably proves that catastrophic climate change is real and coming soon. After all, everything else does.
#12 alien spacecraft is at the bottom.
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