A new article in Geophysical Research Letters adds fuel to the fiery debate over the impact of global warming on hurricanes. It was “not able to corroborate the presence of upward trends in hurricane intensity over the past two decades in any basin other than the Atlantic.”
For Americans, the study is cold comfort since Atlantic hurricanes are what hit us. As for hurricanes elsewhere in the world, the study is more problematic. For a cogent discussion of what the study means, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it fits in with other studies, spend some time on realclimate.org and be sure to read all the comments.
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Thanks for the nice posts
Thanks for writing about this, I missed that article
So, the link is there but the equation(s) that define the process is YTB, yet to be.
My, my, you mean we have no verified quantified links between all the disparate Atlantic hurricanes that start, possibly, near the Sahara Desert and may be affected by ground humidity and many other parameters like cloud patterns and ground temperatures?
Well, what have you been doing, instead?
Take, in contrast, the thin layer of air over a surface of a wing or a propeller or a horizontal stabilizer, you take it, no computer can define and predict its behavior and full size airplanes and full size propellers, for planes and windmills, must be build to learn if they would be safe and effective and how effective they may be. And, the unsolved Boundary Layer problem, studied in Germany since the late 1920s remains a mystery, to some extent. Though, every now and then people die because they make the wrong assumptions. If that simple problem remains unsolved, well, how long do you think it would take to learn how to predict if a year is El Nino or La Nina?
I suggest a trip to Galapagos may be more rewarding.