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anybody?

What's causing all the storms on Jupiter? Any people up there to blame?

"juxter" <up@down.com> wrote in news:y5bYe.177607$AI1.82767
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anybody?

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:02:54 GMT, "juxter" <up@down.com> wrote:

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George Bush has a secret team of scientists hidden somewhere
in the Caribbean setting off these storms to eradicate minorities, who
he hates.

juxter wrote:

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You mean to tell me you don't know what causes hurricanes?

juxter wrote:

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You mean to tell me you don't know what causes hurricanes?

Perhaps it's the Carbon Dioxide, Amen.

juxter wrote:

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Hurricane frequency follows a roughly 60 year

cycle. We were in a "down" cycle from about 1960 to 1990, during which
building along the coast increased by a factor of 10.

We are now in an
"up" cycle that will last until around 2020. Hurricanes were just as
severe 60 years ago as they are now. The difference is, 60 years ago
they hit mostly swamps and empty beaches. Now they hit new housing
tracts.


http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml


- A. McIntire


"
Climate Change & Global Warming
Hurricanes and Global Warming
September 12, 2005


H=2E Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.


In the wake of Katrina, the world scarcely needs reminding that it's
that time of year again: Hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin.
It's no wonder that from June to November, every storm that forms in
the Atlantic Ocean makes hearts race a little bit faster for people
living in states along East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. When the naming
of a storm leads to shortages of bottled water, basic foodstuffs,
plywood and nails as people stock up on materials to batten down their
homes and ride out the coming storm.


For the past decade, hurricane season has also meant the appearance of
environmental alarmists pronouncing to anyone who will listen that
increasingly frequent and dangerous hurricanes are a direct result of
human caused global warming. During 2004's extremely busy hurricane
season, Kevin Trenberth, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) scientist, held a press conference at Harvard University at
which he and others linked the outbreaks of intense hurricane activity
to global warming. As the severity of Katrina was becoming apparent,
environmental activist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. attributed the hurricane

to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's opposition to the Kyoto
Protocol.


There is just one problem: hurricane physics, historic data and
ongoing hurricane research indicate that there is scant evidence
linking human caused warming and more frequent or more powerful
hurricanes.


Concerning physics, temperatures are an important factor in hurricane
formation and strength. Hurricanes are heat engines with their
severity being driven in part by the differences in temperature between

the heat source and the heat sink -- the smaller the difference, the
less severe the storm season. While global warming is likely to cause
the oceans to warm modestly in the coming century, air temperatures
nearest the equator, where hurricanes form, will see little or no
increase. While the reduced differential between the air and water
temperatures alone is likely to be too small to result in fewer or less

powerful hurricanes, it works against more hurricanes of greater
intensity forming.


At the 27th annual National Hurricane conference, University of
Colorado atmospheric scientist, Dr. William Gray explained that nature,

in the form of periodically changing ocean circulation patterns, not
humans, is responsible hurricane cycles including the cycle of
increasing hurricane activity that the world is currently experiencing.

According to Gray, the number of Atlantic Hurricanes during the last
decade, including 2004's above average season, is part of a
completely natural, not at all unusual, multi-decadal cycle that
scientists have monitored for more than 100 years. For approximately
the past 25 years, the U.S. has experienced a relative lull in
hurricane activity. Unfortunately for those living near the coasts, we

recently began to come out of that cycle and into an active cycle like
those experienced from approximately 1930 through 1950. Indeed, in the

1940's 23 hurricanes, eight of them category 3 or higher, hit the U.S.
mainland.


A paper to be published in the upcoming issue of the Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society, Hurricanes and Global Warming, by six
noted tropical cyclone experts, makes three main points. First, that
no connection has been established between greenhouse gas emissions and

the observed behavior of hurricanes. Second, that the scientific
consensus is that any future changes in hurricane intensities will
likely be small the context of observed natural variability. Third,
the zeal by some for political reasons to link future hurricanes to
global warming, threatens both to undermine support for legitimate
climate research and to lead to the implementation of policies that
will be ineffective in mitigating hurricane impacts.


Problems stemming from the politicization of global warming have
already arisen. In a publicly released "Dear Colleague" letter in
January of 2005, Chris Landsea, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, resigned as an IPCC researcher. His resignation letter

stated that he felt that in his area of expertise, climate and
hurricanes, the IPCC had become too politicized. In particular he
cited the Harvard press conference at which Kevin Trenberth linked the
severity of the 2004 hurricane season to global warming. Landsea noted

that none of the speakers at the Harvard conference cited any new
research in the field to support their claims. He went on to point out
that "...the evidence is quite strong and supported by the most
recent credible studies that any impact in the future from global
warming upon hurricanes will likely be quite small."


Hurricanes are a natural phenomena that are costly and, all too often,
deadly. With respect to hurricanes people have enough to fear without
spreading scare stories that global warming will cause super storms
with apocalyptic results for those living on or near the coasts.
Global warming alarmists should be ashamed of themselves for playing on

people's fears to promote their cause.


Published on aBetterEarth.org, September 2005


H=2E Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow specializing in
environmental policy for the National Center for Policy Analysis."

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