New Study Denies GW-Hurricane Link
A new study denies the oft-repeated global warming-hurricane link. Here's a taster from a covering article:
The invitation went to 50 top hurricane scientists: Please attend a seminar to discuss erroneous connections between global warming and hurricanes. And please don't attack the presenter.
"No rotten tomatoes," read the invitation, sent to South Florida colleagues in February by prominent hurricane scientist Chris Landsea.
On Tuesday, Landsea published a study that he believes seals his case and should end one of the hottest debates in all of science: There is no connection, he said, between global warming and increased hurricane activity.
Other researchers who reported such a link made a fundamental mistake, he concluded. They underestimated the number of storms before the age of satellite monitoring -- and before global warming became a concern.
An average of three storms each year were not counted during the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, he said, because they didn't hit land, weren't reported by ships, and they formed, flared and disappeared without anyone noticing.
"When you add those storms back into the record, we don't see any new trend," said Landsea, a scientist at the National Hurricane Center whose peer-reviewed study appeared in the journal EOS, published by the American Geophysical Union. "There's no link to global warming that you can see at all."
Peter C Glover
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