AP, dailies, etc: Hurricanes and global warming, another roundy-round among dueling researchers

Published: July 30, 2007, 1:31 pm

If one reads AP’s account by Randolph E. Schmid, one just doesn’t know what to think about the latest salvo in argument over global warming’s impact on frequency and ferocity of tropical cyclones (which in Atlantic-speak means hurricanes for the big ones). One can’t blame Schmid, really. But no sooner does his story tell us that a new study in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society concludes a doubling of cyclone frequency in the Atlantic over the last century or so than one learns a US ‘cane expert regards it as sloppy science. Maybe the rate has doubled. Maybe we’re just better now at spotting them. Maybe some of each. The Tracker likes the idea that wind shear in a warmer world will reduce the number of really fierce ones, but that ingredients for the occasional “perfect storm” monster will be easier for Mother Nature to find. So those that sneak past the crosswinds will tend to blow harder. Just an opinion. No data (A

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