Comments on: Global Warming and Hurricane Preparedness http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/22/global-warming-and-hurricane-preparedness/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:51:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Tony http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/22/global-warming-and-hurricane-preparedness/#comment-5289 Tony Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:19:36 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/22/global-warming-and-hurricane-preparedness/#comment-5289 I just heard Dr Webster on an NPR OnPoint podcast, along with the ever-valuable Chris Mooney, and Chris Landsea. Landsea spent a lot of his time defending his characterization of Webster's latest paper as "sloppy" for melding heterogeneous datasets. He also made the point that older datasets underestimated hurricane intensity (e.g. recording what we would call a Cat 5 hurricane as a Cat 3 hurricane; and that older datasets may have failed to record up to 6 hurricanes per year. Of course, this doesn't make the reality of human-caused global warming any less real an imperative for policy makers, but I hope Webster addresses these concerns in his talk. I just heard Dr Webster on an NPR OnPoint podcast, along with the ever-valuable Chris Mooney, and Chris Landsea. Landsea spent a lot of his time defending his characterization of Webster’s latest paper as “sloppy” for melding heterogeneous datasets. He also made the point that older datasets underestimated hurricane intensity (e.g. recording what we would call a Cat 5 hurricane as a Cat 3 hurricane; and that older datasets may have failed to record up to 6 hurricanes per year.

Of course, this doesn’t make the reality of human-caused global warming any less real an imperative for policy makers, but I hope Webster addresses these concerns in his talk.

]]> By: Tom Disouza http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/22/global-warming-and-hurricane-preparedness/#comment-5290 Tom Disouza Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:44:58 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/22/global-warming-and-hurricane-preparedness/#comment-5290 Over the 10-year period as a whole, climate continues to warm and 2014 is likely to be 0.3 deg C warmer than 2004. The overall trend in warming is driven by greenhouse gas emissions but this warming effect will be broadly cancelled out over the next few years by the changing patterns of the ocean temperatures. Want more information click on <a href="http://www.lifeofearth.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.LifeOfEarth.Blogspot.com</a> Over the 10-year period as a whole, climate continues to warm and 2014 is likely to be 0.3 deg C warmer than 2004. The overall trend in warming is driven by greenhouse gas emissions but this warming effect will be broadly cancelled out over the next few years by the changing patterns of the ocean temperatures. Want more information click on www.LifeOfEarth.Blogspot.com

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