The North Atlantic only represents a 1/10 to 1/8 of
global hurricane energy output on average but deservedly so demands disproportionate media attention due to the devastating societal impacts of recent major hurricane landfalls.
The research is important because the lead author is Kerry Emanuel, the M.I.T. climate scientist who in the 1980's foresaw a rise in hurricane intensity in a human - warmed world and in 2005, just a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, asserted in a Nature paper that he had found statistical evidence linking
rising hurricane energy and warming.
The notion that the overall
global hurricane energy or ACE has collapsed does not contradict the recent climate change / TC linkage literature but provides an additional, perhaps less publicized piece of the puzzle.
These towers release tremendous amounts of heat, giving
the hurricane an energy boost.
So you have to be specific when you chose your supplements, do not get hooked just by generic, commercial headlines on packages — «best pump», «
hurricane energy», «solid lean muscles» etc..
Using a well - accepted metric called the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index or ACE for short (Bell and Chelliah 2006), which has been used by Klotzbach (2006) and Emanuel (2005)(PDI is analogous to ACE), and most recently by myself in Maue (2009), simple analysis shows that 24 - month running sums of global ACE or
hurricane energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 years.
Even more astounding, when the Southern Hemisphere hurricane data is analyzed to create a global value, we see that Global
Hurricane Energy has sunk to 30 - year lows, at the least.