A
hurricane expert is a person who knows a lot about hurricanes. They understand how they are formed, where they might go, and how strong they can be. They study and predict hurricanes to help keep people safe.
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In fact,
many hurricane experts do not agree with the argument that warming oceans can lead to more and stronger hurricanes.
However, I would assume that given the organizations for whom these people work, they qualify
as hurricane experts.
On all the measures, 2017 is trending near the top, explains Philip Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist and
hurricane expert at Colorado State University.
That position is «plausible,» says
hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This lie was revealed when
hurricane experts said there was no correlation between Hurricane Katrina and global warming.
We recently updated the Hurricane Season Travel Tools to help hurricane travelers stay out of harm's way because the current consensus
of hurricane experts is that the 2011 hurricane seasons looks to be more dangerous than usual.
That includes a new paper by
MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel, suggesting that across the globe, hurricanes will be both more numerous and also more intense under global warming.
There's a link between
hurricane expert Chris Landsea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
As one particularly vivid example, when renowned
hurricane expert Dr. Bill Grey refused to go along with then VP Al Gore's global warming nonsense at a Gore hosted climate science conference, he lost all further federal funding for his world class hurricane research.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Kerry Emanuel, a
renowned hurricane expert, and his colleagues published their findings on Monday, claiming global warming increased the of risk Hurricane Harvey - level rainfall in southeastern Texas grew since the last century.
University of
Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy noted on Twitter that it might be the first tropical storm to spend zero time over open water.
The reason for the quiet season is the stable air in the deep tropical parts of the basin that are «the best «bang for your buck» regions, so to speak, for getting strong typhoons,»
hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach, of Colorado State University, said in an email.
The «others» mentioned in «Gray, and others» are in fact highly qualified
hurricane experts with substantial expertise and a significant history of publication in respected journals.
Top hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel has now published a very good response to Pielke at FiveThirtyEight, making a number of the same points as I do above.
As a result, in late 2004 one
federal hurricane expert, Christopher Landsea, withdrew in protest from the climate - review process at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leading to stories on a dispute over climate science.
Hurricane expert Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. explained: «Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane «drought.
While expressing great admiration for Weather
Channel hurricane expert Bryan Norcross, [Bob] Ryan calls «pretty apocalyptic» his vision for the course of Irene.
It was written, without any encouragement or coaching, by Prof. William Gray, one of the world's most distinguished and
respected hurricane experts.
A Florida -
based hurricane expert, Landsea served as a contributing author and expert reviewer on both the 1995 and 2001 editions of the climate bible.
For additional measure about the idea of settled science, Hackney brings up the statement — in relation to a position held by the
late hurricane expert William Gray — that no peer - reviewed science journal - published papers were against the idea of man - caused global warming «settled science.»
He's especially aggrieved by the fact that
hurricane expert Peter Webster at Georgia Tech University was recently provided with data that had been refused to him.
Unfortunately, despite this clear empirical evidence, the climate change and global warming doomsday alarmists attempt to portray the 2017 season as a sign of CO2 - induced climate catastrophe - and that is not being well accepted by the
actual hurricane experts (here, here, here) who have been on the front lines of tropical cyclone activity and impact research.
Hank roberts on youtube check out exploring energy hurricanes where a NASA scientist and
hurricane expert doscusses how the top of hurricanes radiate heat to space, form in oceans cause upwelling and thus cool oceans.
The divergent findings, says
hurricane expert Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, «indicate that care needs to be taken in being too explicit with climate predictions of changes in tropical cyclone frequency at this stage.»
Trenberth's ill - informed bias resulted
in hurricane expert Dr. Landsea's resignation from the IPCC.
In fact,
MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel first proposed in Emanuel (1987) that warmer sea surface temperatures should lead to stronger hurricanes.
Professor William Gray of Colorado State University, often described as the world's most
famous hurricane expert, warned this week that Climategate is «but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well - organized international climate - warming conspiracy.»
As hurricane expert Roger Pielke Jr. points out, even under IPCC assumptions, changes in energy policy «wouldn't have a discernible impact on future disasters for the better part of a century or more.»
Many hurricane experts say the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico have begun to spin off more frequent and destructive hurricanes than in previous decades.
When he resigned from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
hurricane expert Chris Landsea did exactly this.
To take stock, earlier in the season I called up several climate and
hurricane experts.
Of this year's storm season, «it's explainable to some degree, and to another degree we simply don't know why it's been so crazy busy,» said Jeff Masters,
a hurricane expert at Weather Underground, a popular weather website.
Scientific American asked Jennifer Collins,
a hurricane expert and an associate professor of weather and climate at the University of South Florida School of Geosciences Tampa.
Regardless of the path, the hurricane could cause destruction to both coasts of Florida, said Bryan Norcross,
a hurricane expert at the Weather Channel.
Brian McNoldy,
a hurricane expert at Colorado State, provided more detail on the storm in an e-mail update:
This is a statement of fact that
any hurricane expert would be aware of and it would not be debated.
The coverage linking these storms to warming oceans resulted in a backlash when
some hurricane experts disputed the assertions made to the media.