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August 22, 2006
Where Are All the Hurricanes?
Look for Al Gore and his Chicken Little acolytes to find something to fret about other than hurricanes this year. As you'll recall, last year a bad hurricane season highlighted by Katrina and Rita had the global warming herd stampeding to the conclusion that Bush's nefarious refusal to regulate SUVs out of existence was going to cause the world to blow away in a storm. But despite our government not having gone insane and signed the absurd Kyoto protocol, this year's Atlantic storm season is below normal.
Average at this point in the season is 1.5 hurricanes. So far in 2006 we're holding steady at none.
The reason we haven't had a hurricane is that sea surface temperatures have been cooler than average. Globally averaged temperatures in the upper ocean have cooled dramatically since 2003, countering 20% of the global warming occurring over the previous 48 years.
Proving that humans are causing global warming would be very hard. Proving that economy-ruining regulations would prevent it would be even harder. Proving that we are on the brink of a climatic catastrophe as Al Gore has been screeching so profitably would be impossible. Even proving that global warming is a problem is no cinch.
On the bright side for liberals, some glaciers continue to recede — as they have been doing since the 19th Century. Unfortunately, these are countered to some extent by "galloping glaciers," which grow by up to 50 meters per day; there are almost four times as many of these as were previously estimated.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 22, 2006 8:29 AM
Comments
The hurricanes have been a bit reluctant to perform this year, as the MSM's persistant blaming of Bush for global warming has them a little nervous. Stage fright, if you will. An unhinged, shrieking algore does not help them either.
Posted by: nikko at August 22, 2006 11:41 AM
It's obvious that Algore is an Atheist. If he believed in any kind of God, he would have taken the hint when he booked a Global Warming speaking date into Boston a few years back, and was greeted by the coldest temperatures ever recorded in Beantown.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at August 22, 2006 1:04 PM
All the hot air coming out of Al Gore cry hole are contributing more to global warming than the rest of us are.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at August 22, 2006 3:17 PM
you can't seriously try to pretend that we are not in a period of warming and be taken seriously can you? I mean the only real contention is "are humnan actions contributing to the pace?" No credible scientist will tell you that the average tempratures are not increasing. So make all the fun you want but don't pretend that the globe isn't getting hotter...
Posted by: Anonymous at August 22, 2006 4:31 PM
Of course we're in a period of warming, you blithering idiot. We've been warming since the approximate end of the so-called "little ice age", which was a cold period that dominated for about 200 years or so. This warming trend started some time in the mid to late 1800s, before any real industrialisation took hold, and was mostly completed by around the 1940s, if temperature records are to be believed. Prior to that the globe was probably a degree hotter than it is today, and in previous periods it was hotter still, by several degrees. Those very hot periods coincide with massive explosions in biodiversity.
Nobody here is denying that warming takes place. As for your other contention, the answer is "no". There's a simple explanation for this: The radiation bands that CO2 absorbs are within the bands absorbed by water vapour, and since there's so much water vapour in the atmosphere already, adding CO2 makes very little actual difference. Look up the meaning of "saturation" and you'll see what I mean.
The real environmental disaster is the destruction of rainforests in south america, which is still proceeding apace, but I haven't heard much at all about that in the past few years because the airwaves have been swamped with all this global warming hysteria. This is a tragedy in many ways. A real and quite immediate problem being pushed out by something that we can't change, and which is entirely natural anyway, is a demonstration of just how lunatic the environmental movement has become.
Posted by: Archonix (in paraguay) at August 22, 2006 8:06 PM
The sky is falling! is the cry that has been used to prop up a political leader's policy for ever. It makes little difference if the facts support the claim or not. What is important is does the media cover the story in such a way to meet the political needs of Chichen Little.
Global warming cannot be statisticaly measured with the limited data that is avaliable. Most of the changes seem to be well within the range of random values. The CO2 cycle should stablized when warmer temperature increses the plant life and the plants absorbe the excess CO2.
Posted by: J Robert Moody at August 23, 2006 5:20 PM
