Category Archives: hurricanes

Global Economic Damages from Tropical Cyclones – Sins of Omission

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany A few days ago I saw a report about a paper in Nature Climate Change on future economic damages from tropical cyclones (or hurricanes, as we Americans call them) by Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel … Continue reading →

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Frequency of strong Florida hurricanes decreased in last 600 years

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

The next time some alarmist caterwauls about hurricanes becoming worse and more frequent due to global warming, show them this study. Noting that “the brief observational record is inadequate for characterizing natural variability in hurricane activity occurring on longer than … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, paleoclimatology, weather | 27 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 238 Comments

“We need more hurricanes to save the coral reefs”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Above: SST heat loss from Hurricane Irene The title is sarcasm, but it does present an interesting quandary for alarmists. What’s more acceptable – hurricanes and the loss of life and property they bring, or loss of coral reef systems? … Continue reading →

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“Very wet rain events” from tropical cyclones linked to earthquakes

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

From the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science , an interesting groundbreaking paper, ahem…but, wait for it, we’ll soon hear “Climate disruption causes more hurricanes and those cause more earthquakes” from the Rommists and McKibbenites. Research … Continue reading →

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New hurricane record – 2232 days and counting since major Hurricane made landfall on the USA – last record was year 1900

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

While the alarmists squall over trying to control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, hurricanes | 42 Comments

Hurricanes and Global Warming – Opinion by Chris Landsea

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

While I was looking into Chris Landsea’s recent activities, I came across a new essay that is a pleasant change of pace from the Climategate Emails. While it is definitely an opinion piece, and a wonderful example of how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, AMO, Carbon dioxide, hurricanes, Methane, Michael E. Mann, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 65 Comments

NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Treberth’s ugly intolerance of dissenting views from other scientists

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine. email 3946 date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004 from: Phil … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Kenneth forms southwest of Baja

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Late season Hurricane Kenneth forms in the eastern Pacific Click image above to animate the most current loop The hurricane season in the eastern Pacific isn’t over and Hurricane Kenneth serves as a reminder that the season ends November 30. … Continue reading →

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U.S. Hurricanes: worse than we thought…100 years ago

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

With the 2011 hurricane season drawing to a close in about a month, and with hurricane season this year being mostly uneventful in terms of landfall, I find this very interesting. This historical reanalysis by NOAA shows U.S. hurricane landfalls … Continue reading →

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Rina becomes a hurricane

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

I said yesterday to keep an eye on this storm, and now it has grown into a hurricane rather quickly. The big question is whether or not it reforms after passing over the Yucatan peninsula. If it does, we’ll have … Continue reading →

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Keep an eye on Tropical storm Rina

Posted on October 23, 2011 by
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Hurricane Katia now category 4 3 2  1

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Katia, after dropping into tropical storm speeds has regained hurricane strength and has rapidly grown to a Category 4 hurricane. Fortunately, it appears it will miss the USA east coast. Here’s the latest tracks and bulletins: Track:

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Tisdale on debunking AGW intensification claims about Irene

Posted on September 3, 2011 by

Previously on WUWT we saw this: Now Bob Tisdale does a numeric analysis along the track, finding some interesting results. Bill McKibben’s wacky claim seen here Climate activist McKibben bizarrely blames Hurricane Irene on global warming is now dead and buried. … Continue reading →

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Tropical storm Lee and hurricane Katia status and tracking

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Well it seems the Gulf coast is in for a wet and windy weekend, no joy though for Texas and rain. Katia has regained hurricane strength. Here’s the latest tracks and bulletins: Track:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 52 Comments

Hurricane Fatalities, 1900–2010: Update

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

by Indur M. Goklany Much to my surprise, I heard from NHC’s Dr. Eric Blake today on the fatalities data for hurricanes. I was sure he would take a break to catch his breath after Irene (and before Katia), and … Continue reading →

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Katia now a hurricane tropical storm

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

This post has been combined into a new one for Katia and Lee here Also I have our new track projection map online now, that covers all the way out to the Cape Verde Islands where these storm systems form. … Continue reading →

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The next hurricane to be is on the move: Katia

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

As we were given an early forecast of by Dr. Ryan Maue, NHC has now declared tropical depression 92L a tropical storm with the name Katia. UPDATE: 18z 08/30/2011 GFS forecast puts Gulf of Mexico in for a meandering powerful … Continue reading →

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Even the TV news community is asking if Irene was overhyped

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

There’s a newsgroup that just about everyone who’s in the television news reads daily called “Shoptalk” which is as old as the Internet. They have a host website called TVspy. Today they asked their own readers this question: Was Hurricane … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, media | 91 Comments

Irene takes a bite out of ocean heat

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

While nowhere close to Trenberth’s missing heat, it’s a nice bite sized chunk of SST. Hurricanes are heat engines, transporting massive amounts of heat from lower to higher levels of the atmosphere. La Niña is growing too. Have a look:

Posted in hurricanes, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | 97 Comments

Hurricane Irene 2011 – now tropical storm with 50 mph winds

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

At noon 8/28/11 PST, I’ve discontinued this thread as a “top post” on WUWT. NOTE: New posts will appear below this one while Irene is in play. UPDATE: at 5PM EST 8/28 Irene is a tropical storm with sustained winds … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Irene TV news reports – a bridge too far?

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

I just got done watching about 30 minutes of the special “Hurricane Irene Information” Channel 259 on DirecTV where they are carrying live reports from ABC7 out of New York City. I’ve watched many TV channels tonight like it. I … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Fatalities, 1900–2010: Context in these Stormy Times

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Guest post  by Indur M. Goklany Despite the press given to hurricanes on the dangers they pose to life and limb, in the larger scheme of things, their contribution to U.S. mortality (less than 0.01% on average each year) verges … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Irene not packing much of a “punch” so far

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

One of the great things about Internet, technology, and personal weather stations today is that I can sit comfortably in my home in California and watch the storm progress on the other coast. This map from Weather Underground suggests that … Continue reading →

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NOAA Hurricane Image: Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NOAA satellites Hurricane Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast Hurricane Irene is a major hurricane, and NOAA/NASA satellite data shows its diameter is now about one-third the length of the U.S. Atlantic … Continue reading →

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