A New Record
Weather-watchers eye Dennis as Cindy drenches Louisiana
This is the first time in recorded history that four storms have been named this early in the Atlantic hurricane season
Nothing to see here, certainly no climate change… move along.
Far be it from me to save you an injury from leaping to conclusions based on one particular pattern of weather phenomena in one year, but there is a mention of hurricane activity and some links here:
http://www.warwickhughes.com/hoyt/scorecard.htm
Welcome back lrc. I’m not exactly sure what a “free lance earth scientist” is (Hughes description on the main page), regardless, the site does have a lot of information that says global warming is iffy at best — given time just about anyone could search the net and refute all the links he has refuting other claims, findings, and models but I’m not sure what that would prove.
Theories, models, concepts, etc., aside we do have one solid fact in front of us today; this is the first time in recorded history that 4 storms like this hit this early in the season.
Is it a blip? Maybe it is, but how much extreme weather do we need before this sort of thing isn’t a blip anymore? How much solid, factual, not studies or models but stuff that is seen in the here and now, is needed before people start scratching their heads?
(stageleft aside: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, where Iraq is concerned the right appears to believe in the ‘better safe than sorry, ya never know, he might have tried something later on, concept’, but where changes to personal lifestyle and consumption habits are concerned that quickly turns into ‘whoa there now, we better have some solid, indisputable, proof of this – wouldn’t want to go chasing ghosts or anything now’.)
Is the aside supposed to make a particular point, other than to emphasize the differences between the issues which would tend to encourage one to adopt different approaches? Hussein was a known problem and his removal was achievable. Climate change is an unknown problem and the costs of either mitigation or adaptation are also unknown.
Nah… it was a bit of venting that in hindsight
probablyshouldn’t have ben tagged on to the end of that post because it has run the topic train off the tracks before it even pulled out of the station.>how much extreme weather do we need before this sort of thing isn’t a blip anymore?
The $64M question. Climate being the average of the weather, what are the upper and lower bounds on the averages over the past 10 years? 100 years? 500 years?