Sentences with phrase «about global hurricane»

So trying to draw inferences about global hurricane activity from these statistics just doesnâ t work.

Not exact matches

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

I had thought there was a legitimate scientific debate about the role of global warming and hurricanes, but it appears that the deniers, although they are legitimate scientists, seem to have fallen in with the think tank ideologues and PR lobbyists who masquerade as scientists.

«Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence» complements Sean Scully's extraordinarily successful and ground - breaking exhibition «Follow the Heart: the Art of Sean Scully» which opened at Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum and moved to Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) in 2015, about which Global Times said «there is a Sean Scully hurricane blowing through China» and about which the curator Wang Chunchen said «it is as important an exhibition as Rauschenberg's ’85 show in China».

Nevertheless, reinsurance companies, like Munich Re, are very concerned about the impacts of global warming, and I don't think you can even buy hurricane insurance in some parts of Florida anymore.

It depends on the signal - to - noise ratio, so for global temperature in recent decades 20 years has been about enough, for CO2 concentration 4 years is more than enough while for hurricane frequency 50 years is probably too short.

Kerry Emanuel, who's been studying Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in the context of climate change for decades, spoke on the Warm Regards podcast about the mix of subsidized seaside development and rising sea levels driven by global warming.

As we have also pointed out in previous posts, we can indeed draw some important conclusions about the links between hurricane activity and global warming in a statistical sense.

So in terms of near term impacts of global warming, the risk of increased hurricane activity is pretty high on the list of things that the public is worried about.

As for your question about hurricanes, the argument given for the global mean hydrological cycle doesn't apply to the hurricane because the global mean argument assumes an equilibrium between radiative cooling and latent heat release.

It's great to see the Union of Concerned Scientists offering nonpartisan criticism of elected officials for distorting — in both directions — what's known about the role of human - driven global warming on several fronts, from tornado ferocity to hurricane losses.

My reading of this statement is that you are saying that the likelihood that global warming is increasing the destructive potential of hurricanes (and is likely to do so increasingly in the future) is irrelevant to the policy debate about hurricane damage.

But the new work did seem a lot more scientifically rigorous than most previous arguments against a link between global warming and hurricanes; which simply state we don't know enough about past hurricane activity to determine whether modern hurricane activity is unprecedented.

and we readers are then linked to his April, 2008 article about «reassessing» the relationship between hurricanes and global warming.

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

It draws no conclusions about the effect of AGW on hurricanes (neither «climate change» nor «global warming» occurs in the paper).

It also goes without saying that Atlantic hurricanes are only one part of global cyclones, so even if more wind shear from El Nino's counter rising SST there, what about typhoons in Japan and China and India.

Speaking / fantasising about the possibility of a second event such as Hurricane Katrina to hit the USA, regardless of whether or not global warming is the cause (and it seems, regardless of whether or not humans caused it), Casico writes on his blog,

In 2006, Salon.com reported that the Bush administration sought to have Landsea speak to the media about hurricanes and global warming while stifling another NOAA researcher, Tom Knutson, whose research did suggest a link.

Since hurricanes don't seem to care about global warming in the least either way, why should we?

Pielke has been quoted in the mainstream media voicing concerns about the IPCC, as in today's Wall Street Journal, as well as questioning sloppy logic on the part of some environmentalists, for instance objecting to overstatements about hurricanes being linked to global warming.

Because I know something about the subject — and because of the recent records set by Category 5 Hurricanes Dean and Felix — I decided to have a look at how Lomborg applies this argument to the issue of hurricanes and global warming in particular (p. 72 - 81 of his new book).

Zachary Jarjoura of the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club said his group has organized two busloads of residents who are concerned about the local effect of rising seas, more intense hurricanes and higher storm surges that climate scientists predict global warming will inflict.

Mooney then wrote another excellent book Storm World, about the hurricane and global warming debate.

Earlier today, I posted an article about how — and even if — global warming is currently affecting the formation, development, and strength of tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons).

The e-mail centered on an October 2005 request from CNBC television to interview NOAA scientist Thomas Knutson about the link between hurricanes and global warming.

(By Meteorologist Jim Clark of Florida's WZVN - TV ABC 7)-- Excerpt: It was about this time (1990's) that Dr. Bill Gray, the famed hurricane climatologist, began speaking out against the global warming crisis at the National Hurricane Conhurricane climatologist, began speaking out against the global warming crisis at the National Hurricane ConHurricane Conferences.

And I don't know about you, «Justtellthetruth», but in my view characterizing Roger Pielke Jr. as a «hurricane expert» when Peike doesn't even hold a science degree while moreover also not mentioning the fact that Pielke is a prominent global warming «skeptic» does not constitute reliable and balanced reporting.

I knew Obama's campaign had linked Sandy to global warming so I assumed the title «Doha delegation using hurricane Sandy as a call to action,» was about the U.S. delegation.

P.S.: Judith Curry v. oilprice.com, 8/22/14, says, The impact of extreme weather events in raising concern about global warming became apparent following Hurricane Katrina.

But, what about global warming — is man - made global warming causing more hurricanes?

They were going on about hurricanes and 70 dead in Houston, laying the blame on Trump and global fill in the blank.

Thus only about 2» (50 mm) of Hurricane Harvey's peak amount of 60» (1525 mm) can be linked to manmade global warming.

droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, global ice cover, and rainfall are about the same (maybe a slight increase in total rainfall); forests and all other vegetation that has been studied are growing faster; actual effects of putative ocean pH change are negligible to non-existent.

Since we've had all the wild predictions about global warming causing more hurricanes, I've become interested.

They weren't just anyone making claims about hurricanes and global warming — they were UN-recognized experts.

While much of the world has reacted with shock and sympathy to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, senior government leaders in Germany warned the United States to expect more natural catastrophes if it did not get serious about global warming.

It is no longer just a conversation about the divide between Global North and South, loss and damage has now become evident within the Global North through hurricane Katrina, extreme droughts in California, and destructive wildfires throughout the Pacific Northwest.

In February, New Republic magazine published a story about NOAA's insistence both in news conferences and on its Web site that global warming has no effect on hurricanes.

We estimate that global hurricane damage will about double owing to demographic trends, and double again because of climate change.

THe UK - based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so - called «man - made global warming» (aka climate change): «But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and can not control.»

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I would argue that prior to hurricane Katrina, papers about hurricanes and global warming would not have received such inappropriate reviews.

For a discussion of what can and can not be concluded about possible relationships between recent Hurricane activity and climate change, please see our post on Hurricanes and Global Warming: Is There a Connection?.

But we don't need any amputations to figure out some things that we can indeed say about hurricanes and global warming.

«Thinking about the increase in the number and strength of hurricanes in recent years, do you think global warming has been a major cause, a minor cause, or not a cause of the increase in hurricanes?»

In addition, it has been well - documented that the measured global warming of about 0.5 C during the 25 - year period of 1970 - 1994 was accompanied by a downturn in Atlantic basin hurricane activity over this quarter - century period.»

Data on U.S. landfalling storms is only about 2 tenths of one percent of data we have on global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes.

Finally, I think what the media really want to know when they ask about Katrina and global warming is whether the connection is «significant», and I don't think there's consensus there, partly as Gavin says, that's a matter of semantics, partly it's a genuine disagreement as to how important global warming is where hurricanes are concerned compared to other factors, and how «significant» an argument the influence of global warming on hurricanes is for deciding energy policy.

There are those who theorize global warming will lead to more frequent El Ninos (and the evidence suggests El Ninos became more frequent in recent decades)-- and, hence, fewer Gulf and Atlantic hurricanes to worry about assuming everything else stays the same.