Scientists Downplay Global Warming & Hurricanes

[AEGeneral]

Scientists downplay global warming's effect on hurricanes - 04/05/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

Chris Landsea, a respected researcher and the National Hurricane Center's science officer, told those at the National Hurricane Conference that there is no conclusive evidence that global warming has significantly enhanced or otherwise affected the number or intensity of hurricanes.

''Any trend we see due to global warming has very little impact, has caused very tiny changes, and might actually be slightly reducing the activity we see in the Atlantic,'' Landsea told the group, which numbered 2,100 earlier in the week, although some left before the global warming session began.

If I had a nickel for every time the media has invoked this relationship as fact over the last few years, I'd have my own beachfront property.

[mcclane]

Unless they are using a time machine or a crystal ball, there is really no way to predict with 100% certainly what weather this season will bring. They will always try to tie in extreme weather to global warming in some form.

[AEGeneral]

Yet more evidence released today:

The Associated Press: Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes

Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject.

Not only that, warmer temperatures will actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, research meteorologist Tom Knutson reported in a study released Sunday.


But NOAA hurricane meteorologist Chris Landsea, who wasn't part of this study, praised Knutson's work as "very consistent with what's being said all along."


"I think global warming is a big concern, but when it comes to hurricanes the evidence for changes is pretty darn tiny," Landsea said.

And yet every kid in school in America thinks that Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming. It's sad, sad, sad. We've got to reverse this errant line of thinking.

[AEGeneral]

Scientist Shifts View on Global Warming - AOL News

Same news, but note the photo gallery listing the benefits of global warming.

Never thought I'd see the day when a site like AOL news would dare to mention it.