Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 25, 2010 4:31:46 PM
I find it interesting that they just can't give up on the hurricane scare.
The N.Y. Times Dot Earth blog has a story up today about how a new study out shows that hurricanes will increase in intensity but there will be fewer of them.
A new
modeling study published in this week’s issue of
Science projects a rise of about 30 percent in potential hurricane damage in the western Atlantic toward the end of the century as emissions of greenhouse gases rise. Although the overall number of storms in the region are expected to drop, the number of strong ones — those reaching Category 4 or 5 in the hurricane index — are expected to double from the number produced now, the study says. The projections are based on a midrange scenario for a rise in the heat-trapping emissions linked to global warming.
Well, if it's a study tied to global warming, and the likes of people employed at the East Angila Climate Research Unit did the peer-review, well, of course it is goijng to be bad.
It is easy to say that the frequency of hurricanes is going to go down. Her is a link from
WattsUpWithThat on the current hurricane cycle.
(See chart below)
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Once again, if you put your faith in climate models and you base the test on man-made global warming then you will get the answer you are most likely looking for.