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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Hurricane Expert Reviews Storm World for Nature [The Intersection] |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| hurricane activity and global warming. The flight log is compelling enough for Hollywood. It records a clash between the empiricist climate scientist William Gray (think Ian McKellen) at Colorado State University and the theoretician Kerry Emanuel (think Tom Hanks) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... Actually Elsner is getting |
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| "Don't Know Much About Hurricanes"--the New Hit Song by Steven D. Levitt [The Intersection] |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 10:47 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| other things) a post on hurricanes and global warming. Alas, Levitt seems unaware of the history of this debate, and so pretty much makes a hash of things. Let us detail the errors of interpretation: Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this |
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| Hurricane Felix's Many Records* [The Intersection] |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 11:09 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| My latest "Storm Pundit" post is up at the Daily Green. Using Wikipedia and outher sources, I've cobbled together the records apparently set or otherwise affected by this storm. It's quite a staggering list: 1. Fastest intensification from a tropical depression to a Category 5 hurricane -- around 51 hours. (This is apparently an Atlantic |
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| Climate Change Harms Endangered Species... Yep, It's PUBLISHED! [The Intersection] |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 11:21 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| is quite simple: If (1) global warming leads increased storminess* and sea level rise, (2) given these factors decimate sea turtle populations, then (3) it's not rocket science to figure out that global warming results in sea turtle decline. Veritas. It's published! Crikey! [Hurricane Wilma's effect on beach island habitats. Click to |
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| "I am Proud to Be a Scientist" [The Intersection] |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 4:55 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| Last week climate scientist Andrew Dessler posted a review/blog entry about Storm World over at Gristmill. I really appreciated the final paragraph, showing that Dessler truly understood what I was trying to get across. Moreover the words are so quotable and resonant that I thought I'd share them with you: Overall, I think this book helps pull |
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| Bjorn Lomborg, Global Warming, and the Right to Bare Arms [The Intersection] |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 2:25 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| particular, his section on hurricanes and global warming, which I find pretty off-base. Excerpt: ...from here, Lomborg grows increasingly misleading. Before long, we find him citing a late 2006 statement from the World Meteorological Organization as representative of the current scientific consensus on the relationship between hurricanes and |
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| Global Warming and Hurricane Rapid Intensification Rates? [The Intersection] |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 10:46 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| pressing in the wakes of Hurricanes Felix and Humberto, is now up. Upshot: I want to know more about the mechanism by which climate change would presumably affect storm intensification rates. Still, it stands to reason that some type of change ought to occur--and given how dangerous rapidly intensifying hurricanes near landfall are, this is |
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| It Hates Us, Precioussssss [The Intersection] |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| book is called Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming. But as Steve McIntyre, the guy who put egg all over the face of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for overstating U.S. global warming, notes and shows in charts: "At this point, despite a couple of intense hurricanes, 2007 is even quieter thus far |
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| My Hurricane Forecast for the Rest of 2007 [The Intersection] |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 4:28 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| 4 or 5 tropical cyclones globally in 2007. Go here to see my reasoning behind this only mildly informed guess. And get ready to make merciless fun of me if/when I turn out to be wrong.... Read the comments on this |
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| The Other Storm World [The Intersection] |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| When PZ reviewed my latest book as if it was a sci-fi novel, I thought the result was hilarious. I certainly didn't think anyone would take him literally. But now across my cluttered desk comes this: Australia's Great Western Entertainment (GWE) has expanded backing for its kids and family sci-fi series Stormworld, with production, |
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| Talks from Kansas [The Intersection] |
| Published: October 19, 2007, 11:07 am |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| New York Times stories about global warming, politics, and science. The three stories (two by Andy Revkin) are here, here, and |
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| California Wildfires: Media Blame Another Natural Disaster on Bush |
| Published: October 24, 2007, 2:49 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Forest Fires, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Weather, Abc, Cbs, Cnn, Early Show, Fox News Channel, Good Morning America, Msnbc, Nbc, On The Record |
| is by tying these fires to global warming as CNN, CBS, NBC, and others have already done.Yet, the actual culprits for these fires conveniently getting little attention were reported in an Orange County Register editorial on Monday, namely, arson and downed power lines (emphasis added):Our dismay is doubled, however, by the circumstances that |
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| John Marburger Does it Again [The Intersection] |
| Published: October 27, 2007, 1:25 pm |
| Tags: Global Warming Hurricanes |
| based on current science, to hurricanes." Huh? The original statement from the CDC draft testimony, as cited above, hardly strikes me as very problematic. First, it merely lists hurricanes as one example of an extreme weather event. Moreover, even with respect to hurricanes the statement isn't so off base. Global warming is bound to change |
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| 'Manmade Global Warming Myth' Shockingly Refuted by ABC Affiliate |
| Published: November 10, 2007, 1:06 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Weather, Abc, Nbc |
| weighed toward the manmade global warming myth. Shocking, yes? But there's much more: KLTV 7 METEOROLOGIST GRANT DADE: Is the Earth warming? Yes, I think it is. But is man causing that? No. It's just a simple climate cycle that the earth goes through over periods of thousands of years. KLTV 7 METEOROLOGIST MARK SCIRTO: The late 1800's, early |
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| ABC Again Ignores Liberal Connections of Global Warming Alarmists |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 12:37 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Sam Champion, Abc, Good Morning America |
| strong language. They called global warming unequivocal and they also pointed to the direct causes of global warming. Extreme weather impacted up to half a billion people across the globe in 2007, some the most bizarre events seen in years. A rare and powerful hailstorm hit Bogota, Colombia's tropical capital, creating rivers of cars, water and |
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