HadCRUT says that the 1880s was one of the coolest decades, yet the US was hit by 26 hurricanes from 1880-1889. The 2010′s have been the slowest on record – so far – with only one (fake) hurricane in two years.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt
all us hurricane strikes, global warming from 1880s to 2012, hurricanes windmill absorb energy
According to NOAA :-
“earlier work had linked these cycles of busy and quiet hurricane period in the 20th Century to natural changes in Atlantic Ocean temperatures.” In other words, there tends to be more hurricanes when the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is in a warm phase, as can be clearly seen below.
If right this would suggest Atlantic temperatures are not as warm as they think.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/katherine-still-cant-get-it-right/
This got me thinking about Trenberth’s WSJ comments about listening to experts. If you recall Trenberth totally ignored hurricane experts a few years ago and misinformed the media with his biased knowledge of hurricanes which was unsupported by the data. The lead author of the IPCC chapter dealing with hurricanes shortly resigned (2005 I believe) after he was ignored by Trenberth. It is amazing to me that Trenberth would suggest that others do what he failed to do himself.
Hypocrisy at it’s finest.
Yes … the hurricane expert in question is Dr. Christopher Landsea (kind of an ironic name for a hurricane expert, eh!). His resignation letter to the IPCC can be found here:
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/LandseaResignationLetterFromIPCC.htm
That was it! Thanks for the link. How is we remember but Trenberth forgets?
This is all conjecture because there were no satellites for most of that period.
The current lack of hurricanes is probably due to all the windmills absorbing that energy.
Don’t be fooled. Lady Gaia is in heat, and that means plenty of thrashing around as we approach the climax of the planetary fever. Expect a spectacular money shot as hurricanes blow everything and Manhattan is flooded by the coming apocalypse.