Another Expert Slams Global Warming
“Sorry Charlie,” goes the old Starkist commercials. The evidence of history is just preventing these environment whacko’s from having their way. Some even want the U.N. to start a global tax:
In 2000, French President Jacques Chirac called the Kyoto Protocol the first step to "authentic global governance."
“Sorry Charlie!” I will post yet another scientist (who was speaking at USC) who says trying to pin hurricanes on Global Warming is a bunch of hooey. (I suggest reading the whole article via the link.):
Chris Landsea, science and operations director of the
But that perception is wrong and the statistics don't bear it out, Landsea told about 200 students and professors in the auditorium at USC's geography building.
Further study continues to show that hurricane activity occurs in cycles of 20 to 45 years, he said. Even though the seasons of 2004, when four hurricanes bashed
The 1926-1935 period was worse for hurricanes than the past 10 years and 1900-1905 was almost as bad, he said. So it is not true that there is a trend of more and stronger hurricanes.
"It's not a trend, it's a cycle: 20-45 years quiet, 20-45 years busy," Landsea said. Scientists currently have no idea what causes the time period.
What makes the recent storms seem worse is the amount of damage, and that is because of the amount of people and their structures on the coast, elements that barely existed in the early 1900s.
The 1,500 people who died in Katrina probably would have lived if they had evacuated, and that is the lesson for coastal residents, Landsea said.
"What happened in Katrina, we're worried could happen in other states," he said.
Global warming is causing hurricanes to be stronger, but it is such a small increase it is almost immeasurable, Landsea said.
The warming will make hurricanes "5 percent stronger 100 years from now," he said. "We can't measure it if it's that small."
