OCT 23, 2001
If you talk to Tom Karl, the head of the National Climatic [Data] Center, he’s more comfortable saying that there’s no weather event that’s not affected by the greenhouse effect now. If you look at terrible weather events in recent years, like Hurricane Mitch, you have to ask: At what point does extra rain cross a critical threshold and become a 100-year flood? At what point does a 100-year flood become a 500-year flood? Also, there can be surprises and all of the surprises were bad ones. For example, you’ll see a Level 5 hurricane instead of a Level 4.
Since the year 1993, the US has had one category 4 hurricane (Charley) and zero category 5 strikes.
By contrast, between 1954 and 1969, the US had four category 4 hurricanes (Hazel, Audrey, Donna, Carla) and one category 5 hurricane (Camille)
According to Hansen, this flurry of major hurricanes occurred during a period of strong cooling in the US. Category 5 Camille occurred during one of the coldest years of the last century, in 1969.
What has increased in recent years is the willingness of NOAA to name clouds in the Atlantic.
It’s safe to say that global warming has caused an increase in spinning clouds that reach tropical force speed……for less than an hour and then dissolve
The bigger question is did you run out of rocks last year?
You will need a bigger supply this year…
ATTENTION: This is an important weather report from NOAA! Possible future Cat 5 hurricane ‘Bozo’ has formed in the eastern Atlantic today. Current maximum sustained winds are 5 mph. Stay tuned to NOAA as we monitor the developments of this potentially future dangerous, CO2-caused, massive, Earth-destroying hurricane.
Just wait till Hurricane Kevin hits. It will be a real doosey. Stoked with all that missing heat it will probably be a category 11, wiping whole continents from the face of the Earth in one angry landfall.
LOL!
Hurricane James will also be good. The catastrophic damage will delayed until 60 years after it makes landfall.
Hurricane Mike – Consists almost entirely of hot air, but the winds make an unbearable whining sound.
Now there’s an idea for NOAA. they reckon sceptics ar “destroying our future”, I guess just like hurricanes destroy. So the next few could be named..
* Hurricane Watts
* Hurricane Goddard
* Hurricane Nova
* Hurricane M&M
* Hurricane Bolt
* Hurricane Id
* Hurricane Tallbloke (nah, leave that out, it’s the Height of Nonsense)
* Hurricane apologies to other good sceptics but you get the idea.
I’d much rather take the opinion of someone like Chris Landsea than this Karl guy.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/gw_hurricanes/