Tag Archives: Tropical cyclone

Another blow to the ‘extreme weather is climate’ alarmism meme – Australian cyclone activity down

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

We’ve mentioned many times the lack of major landfalling hurricanes on the USA being in a record drought. When the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1st, 13 days from now, it will have been (barring a miracle storm) 2,777 … Continue reading →

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Model says Hawaii will get 2-3 times the number of hurricanes – in contrast to other models saying the opposite

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, coin flip climatology? More hurricanes for Hawaii? News of a hurricane threat sends our hearts racing, glues us to the Internet for updates, and makes us rush to the store to stock up … Continue reading →

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Another glitch on the NCDC State of the Climate report

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Is NOAA Misleading the Public by Including Tropical Cyclones in its 2012 Climate Extremes Index Ranking? by Bob Tisdale IF NOT, THE PRESS AND PUBLIC WILL CERTAINLY GET THE WRONG IDEA The Summary Information of the NOAA State of the Climate … Continue reading →

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More bad news for alarmists – no trend in global hurricane landfalls

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

This excerpt from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on his blog likely will cause Bill McKibben and the McKibbenites at 350.org to ramp up the rhetoric over the post Sandy “new normal” yet again, because as we’ve learned, new factual information … Continue reading →

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NOAA: ’2012 was an active [hurricane] year, but not exceptionally so …10 busier years in the last three decades’

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

NOTE: see video below, where you can watch the entire 2012 hurricane season on satellite time-lapse, way cool. – Anthony Busy 2012 hurricane season continues decades-long high activity era in the Atlantic Four U.S. land-falling storms include devastating Sandy and … Continue reading →

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An update to US Hurricane Intensity 1900-2012 – no recent trend with hurricane Sandy

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

While there is still lots of caterwauling about Hurricane Sandy and climate, it is telling that this new update shows that the last five years record the lowest period of landfalling hurricane intensity of any five-year period dating all the … Continue reading →

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Claims Of More Severe Weather With Warming Are Based On IPCC Errors and Omissions

Posted on November 25, 2012 by

Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports are the ‘scientific’ source of claims for more severe and extreme weather. In fact the incidence and severity of extreme weather— hurricanes, wind storms, tornados, heat … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Your help is needed in building the new WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. My recent article A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “Extreme Weather” Update appears to have struck … Continue reading →

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Climate Alarmism – Using Our Fear of Hurricanes

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

Guest post by Steve Goreham Hurricane Sandy has come and gone, leaving a path of destruction. More than 100 people have been killed and 8.5 million lost power. Nineteen states from Maine to Tennessee were impacted, with deaths reported in … Continue reading →

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Helping Bloomberg understand ‘stupid’

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

This cover today is making the rounds in the alarmosphere, where a single storm, a single data point in the hundreds of hurricanes that have struck the USA during its history, is now apparently “proof” of global warming causing bad … Continue reading →

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Let’s hope this forecast for Hurricane Sandy is wrong

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

This model run (ECMWF) has Hurricane Sandy making a near bulls-eye on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with some impact on Norfolk, Washington, and Baltimore. It has some (but not all) of the components of the devastating 1954 Hurricane … Continue reading →

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Dueling papers on Tropical Cyclone Frequency

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

Who to believe? One paper/press release says TC’s are occurring more frequently, another says they aren’t. I tend to believe the latter, because there seems to be more supporting data from other sources for it, such as Dr. Ryan Maue’s … Continue reading →

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Dr. Ryan Maue releases new hurricane frequency data showing a negative trend in the last 30 years

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue has released the latest hurricane frequency data updated through September 2012 showing a continuation of depressed global major hurricane numbers. He announced on Twitter today: Still going down, global major hurricane numbers during last 12-months: 15 … Continue reading →

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Discovery News Category 6 hurricanes – ‘batshit stupid’

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue pulls no punches when it comes to putting John Abraham of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team in his place: Here’s what Abraham has to say at Discovery News: 

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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day double blunder

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

Gee, the AGW meme seems to permeate everything these days. Here’s a place where I least expected it to show up, the venerable Astronomy Picture of the Day, one of the oldest running daily features on the Internet. The first … Continue reading →

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Texas A&M says freshwater hurricanes grow stronger

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

From Texas A&M University , a claim that fresh water intensifies hurricanes. At first blush, the concept seems wonky to me, as I don’t think there’s much difference between the heat content potential of fresh -vs- saltwater. Though, it might … Continue reading →

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WUWT gets results

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

Readers may recall yesterday that I posted this story : As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing “active”. This was from the FSU press release at Eurekalert here which headlines “Hurricane season … Continue reading →

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* As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing “active”

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

*UPDATE: FSU has made a change, the press agent writes to me with this update: The lead researcher on the hurricane forecast has requested a change to the headline to make it clearer, and I have made that change to … Continue reading →

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FEMA loses the global warming plot on hurricanes

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

From the we’ve been telling you so department, comes this honest briefing to the White House: (CNSNews.com) – Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate said the frequency of tornadoes and hurricanes is cyclical, and he doesn’t know if global … Continue reading →

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Hurricane drought days at an all time high – Katrina Karma ?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Ever since Al Gore used hurricane Katrina as a false example of AGW driven severe weather, there has been a drought of major landfalling U.S. Hurricanes, which can only be a good thing. This year I hope Mr. Gore makes … Continue reading →

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