Posted on 09/16/2017 5:58:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hurricane season runs from June through November, with September 10 as the peak of hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Right on schedule, Hurricane Irma blasted Florida on this very day, the season peak. Why are we cursed with such massive and destructive storms?
Theories abound. A cruel joke from Mother Nature. A consequence of global warming or climate change. Payback to America, and in particular Florida and Texas, for electing Donald Trump as president, as actress Jennifer Lawrence suggested. Or a way to drive up oil prices and hurt minorities, as some think George W Bush did with Katrina, steering the great storm into Louisiana.
Unanswered by news anchors and actresses, who likely never studied science beyond the high school level, are several questions.
First, if global warming has been occurring for the past several decades, at least since Time and Newsweek warned us in the mid 1970s of the perils of the coming ice age, why are Harvey and Irma the first major hurricanes to hit the US since 2005? We should have been getting pounded each and every year with ever more severe hurricanes. Didn’t Al Gore tell us that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was just the beginning? Why the 12-year hurricane drought?
Second, if global warming is causing more superstorms, why is Hurricane Irma ranked only number seven in severity of storms to hit the US? The worst being in 1935, before SUVs existed and when air conditioners were a rare luxury.
Third, what is a “normal” hurricane season? The past few weeks? The past 12 years? Who defines normal? Given that recorded hurricane history is only a few hundred years old, how do we know what hurricanes were like 500 years ago? Or 5,000 years ago? Or 50,000 years ago?
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It is refreshing, but rare, to see actual logic applied to so-called global warming.
Love the “...never studied science beyond high school...”
Heck, they didn’t even understand that.
Politics, H-wood and Journalism are common places for those to whom high school was just too difficult.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Here’ s NOAA’s analysis of all the recent studies disputing the left’s global warming/hurricane narrative. Go to the summary at the end if you don’t want to read the whole thing.
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
You said it for me, our local university churns out graduates who could not possibly pass the eighth grade final to gain ADMISSION to high school in their grandparents era, maybe not in every subject but certainly in History, English, and Civics. Most are very lacking in the ability to communicate clearly and have only the vaguest idea of how the government of this country came into existence, how it is supposed to operate and what the constitution is about.
To me, thinking the unthinkable would be: What if every year for the next 12 years, hurricanes the size of Harvey and Irma hit the Houston area, New Orleans, and the whole state of Florida?
My pet peeve about this was the continual repetition of the “strongest Atlantic hurricane ever measured” mantra. We actually haven’t been able to effectively and accurately measure the power of open-ocean hurricanes until fairly recently, due to the range limits of our hurricane-hunter aircraft and Doppler radar.
Good article, thanks for posting.
——Why the 12-year hurricane drought?-—
Not climate change, merely weather change
Hurricanes that strike Florida would not be destructive if there were very little human development.
The Florida panthers, the herons, the sand-hill cranes and the alligators would simply hunker down and wait for the ending of the storm, then go about life. No downed power lines, no concern about flooding, or land subsiding.
The human presence does not CAUSE the storms, but they certainly suffer when they build unsustainable structures on the land. Trailer parks on sea front property is an invitation to destruction, sooner or later. It is possible to build hurricane-resistant structures, but it involves a lot more engineering than has been demonstrated in many places. Florida keeps upgrading their building codes, but there is no such thing as hurricane-proof.
Consider it a learning curve, and the costs of clean-up as tuition in the school of experience and hard knocks.
When there are no hurricanes for a long stretch, no one asks any questions. No one blames it on “global warming” or on Trump.
It is an irregular, unpredictable natural phenomenon. Like when the gambler gets 3 of a number in a row. Means nothing. There were 3 in a row this year. Means nothing.
Reasonable, logical questions are not allowed!
What if Irma was never even an actual Cat 1 hurricane at Naples?
I was thinking of making a patch for my clothing with a hurricane with a big “D” for denial:
I deny that hurricanes are man-made.
A concrete dome, built elevated above flood stage, with lots room for food storage and generators would probably do it...Unless it fell into a sinkhole.
But that's a different story.
As Roseanne Rosanadana said, “ it’s always something!”
The mega-fraud was the assertion that the science was settled, which the IPCC trumpeted with claims that 2,500 scientists from around the world endorsed its findings. Except those 2,500 — a number that was soon inflated to 3,000 and then 4,000 — didn’t endorse anything. They merely reviewed some of the studies heaved into the IPCC’s maw, many of them giving the research the thumbs down.....
Likewise, a much heralded claim that 97 per cent of scientists believed the planet was overheating came from a 2008 master’s thesis by a student at the University of Illinois who obtained her results by conducting a survey of 10,257 earth scientists, then discarding the views of all but 77 of them. Of those 77 scientists, 75 thought humans contributed to climate change. The ratio 75/77 produced the 97-per-cent figure that global warming activists then touted.
“Who defines normal? Given that recorded hurricane history is only a few hundred years old, how do we know what hurricanes were like 500 years ago? Or 5,000 years ago?”
“A new record of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Mass., show evidence that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between the years 250 and 1150, the equivalent of a severe storm about once every 40 years on average. Many of these hurricanes were likely more intense than any that have hit the area in recorded history, according to the study. The prehistoric hurricanes were likely category 3 storms – like Hurricane Katrina — or category 4 storms – like Hurricane Hugo — that would be catastrophic if they hit the region today...”
http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/prehistoric-hurricanes
” Liu thinks the core samples indicate that hurricanes that would be considered catastrophic by modern standards were regularly battering the Gulf Coast thousands of years ago.
From about 3,400 years ago to about 1,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast was hit repeatedly by very powerful hurricanes, Liu said. The frequency of hits increases by three to five times more than today.
The ancient Maya Indians—who had their heyday in Mexico and Central America from about A.D. 250 to 900—had more than a passing familiarity with the tempests that regularly howled off the Atlantic. They called their god of storms Hurukan, and it’s likely that our term for the storms evolved from this name.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0128_050128_tv_hurricane_2.html
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