If we instead consider Atlantic basin hurricanes, rather than all Atlantic tropical storms, the result is similar:
the reported numbers of hurricanes were sufficiently high during the 1860s - 1880s that again there is no significant positive trend in numbers beginning from that era (Figure 3, black curve, from CCSP 3.3 (2008)-RRB-.
Not exact matches
When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership
numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format
of financial
reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation
of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection
of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead
of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles
of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping,
hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit
of communities and individuals.
If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons
of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the
number of storm surge inundations produced by large
hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers
report online today in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Severe
hurricanes, storm surges and an increase in the
number of icebergs are just some
of the changes planet Earth has experienced due to warming oceans over the last 20 years, according to a new
report.
A
report in The Sunday Times on 24 January claimed that the United Nations climate science panel (IPCC) wrongly linked global warming to an increase in the
number and severity
of natural disasters such as
hurricanes and floods.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
reported in its most recent scientific assessment that «[n] o robust trends in annual
numbers of tropical storms,
hurricanes, and major
hurricanes... have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»
When Pielke et al., 2008 «normalized» the
reported damages for the 1926 Great Miami
Hurricane to account for the increases in population,
numbers of housing units and average wealth per person, they calculated that it would probably have cost about $ 150 billion damage if it struck in 2005.
Our involvement in the issue
of hurricanes and global warming began when we published an article in Science shortly before the landfall
of Hurricane Rita, where we
reported a doubling
of the
number of category 4 and 5
hurricanes globally since 1970.
Reports also indicate the growing importance
of providing services to the increased
number of rape victims in the aftermath
of the
hurricane, including medical treatment, counseling, emergency contraception and abortion services.