aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Monday, August 29, 2005
Global warming & hurricanes
Thank God it wasn’t worse! But the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ("engaged in comprehensive long lead-time research fundamental to NOAA’s mission") warns that it’s bound to get worse:
The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth’s climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Although we cannot say at present whether more or fewer hurricane will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions. This expectation (Figure 1) is based on an anticipated enhancement of energy available to the storms due to higher tropical sea surface temperatures.
Which reminds me to mention… I wasn’t watching TV yesterday so I missed the media frenzy. What I did instead was read blogs; I got caught up in the blog frenzy. I have to say that much of it was as overwrought and hyperbolic as anything the MSM puts out, if not more so. We’ve learned from the masters.
