It is because of beyond stupid fear mongering like this: Are Category 6 Hurricanes coming soon?
Really?
Lest people think this is some sort of “new” fear, I’ll remind them of this from 1969, well before CO2 was bogusly posited by Al Gore and other alarmists to be a “hurricane amplifier”:
From Yahoo Answers:
Hurricane Camille in 1969 broke the equipment at Keesler Air Force Base (home of the Hurricane Hunter aircraft) in Biloxi, MS when her winds reached somewhere around 205 to 210 mph. So we’ll really never know just how high her winds were.
Read the complete history of Camille here at NHC (PDF)
Then there’s this that they ignore:
Accumulated Cyclone Energy
Global Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy – 1972 to Present
Click to See Full Image: 24-month running sums of tropical cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy Ryan N. Maue PhD – http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ Click to enlargeFor reference:
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Err, I’m pretty sure there’s a mistake in that scale. 2135 knots is quite a clip.
REPLY: Err. I’m pretty sure you need glasses – Anthony
good grief…..and they use Irene as an example
…what a sloppy………can’t even get the west side closed
a CAT 6 would be definative evidence of an alien invasion I think …
“Err. I’m pretty sure you need glasses – Anthony”
Hahaha. I think you may be right. It looked like a “2” on my monitor. I was hoping to put it off until at least age 45, but it seems I might need to visit the opticians sooner rather than later.
If category 5 is anything greater than or equal to 156 mile per hour winds. Would that not negate the possibility of a category 6?
AGW spouted by New Scientist over here in Blighty is why I don’t subscribe to it anymore..
They gave up being about science a long time ago. Thinner and thinner all the time, they have to fill the pages with CAGW crud and junk now. It’s been like seeing an old friend get dementia. Sad.
A CAT 6 would be messy….with all that gigabit ethernet cable flying around…. 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable
I gave up on Sci-Am long ago. Loved it as a kid–it had real science then. Now it just competes as an over-sensationalized mix of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Time and Newsweek.
now we have the technology to control hurricanes, namely their direction. this will never be openly talked about in the MSM. the significance dawns when we think of the implications of ‘weaponizing’ the weather and the cover up mechanism. ie ‘this terrible murderous weather… well it’s cause is co2, therefore… YOU!’
just watch the denial responses to this information rise like ‘global sea level’
The article says “It took 14 years for the World Meteorological Organization to acknowledge that an anemometer in Australia recorded a world record wind speed of 407 kph (253 mph) during Tropical Cyclone Olivia in 1996.”
I think most of that time the data sat around ignored before the owners contacted the WMO. Not worth looking up.
Perhaps we need more than 6 categories as that would permit a finer description. How about if we use a system like wind speed in kmh minus the hurricane threshhold? A storm could jump a dozen cats between passes of the hurricane hunter planes!
Rudi Salisbury says:
August 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm
“now we have the technology to control hurricanes, namely their direction. this will never be openly talked about in the MSM.”
Yeah. Heard about that.
http://blog.compweather.com/2009/11/al-gores-new-book-our-choice-make-it-up/
I read it in the 70’s and 80’s, before the Greeniacs lobotomized it… Sometimes nostalgia overcomes me and I pick up a copy at the grocery store, but as soon as I see all the purile garbage in it so clearly “on message” for the GreenPeace crowd, I drop it like a hot potato… So sad to see my once robust and respected buddy turned droopy-eyed and drooling like Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” – if the green spin from Scientific American was added to hurricane Irene, it’d morph to a Category 7 in a heart beat… 😉
Given that the increments of existing catogories by wind speed are about 21 to 29mph, that would make Camille at least a Cat 7 Hurricane.
Has anyone seen the latest SA? It is all about cities being the end all for man. Totally ignores the heat output that cities make. I only glanced at the “rag”. We are trying to stop our subscription. I agree….it is no longer a science mag, but worse than Popular Science. Unfortunately, schools use this for “proper” resources to cite.
I bet they have been sitting on this story for quite a long time now, waiting for the right storm… I wonder if they printed this now because they are afraid Irene will be the best they can do this year…
In other news Scientific American has become something of a joke…
I nuked them many years ago, when they went to a tabloid format and hired on Alan Alda as a presenter and spokestwat.
From what I’ve observed about Australia’s strong cyclones the most destructive ones –
Tracy 1974
Larry 2006
Yasi 2011
ALL developed in association with La Nina.
Am I missing something – I thought the ever increasing CO2 generated heat was going to rain death and destruction on us all with never ending EL Nino conditions. Almost all cyclonic activity I remember is associated with La Nina events here. As for ever increasing strength Teacy was equal to Yasi and completely destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974.
So for Australia’s scientists to be ignoring ENSO to study CO2 warming is insanity.
EL Nino’s bring widespread drought and heat, La Nina’s bring flooding and cyclones but our Gov’t and CSIRO continue on with the “dangerous climate change” mantra like the brain dead.
Sci Am has become a rag that is very closed minded. I cancelled my subscription, also.
Maybe a change in font would be more useful than new glasses. I had to study it for several minutes after reading the snarky put-down to work out that that was not a numeral “2” but in fact is a greater than or equal to symbol.
Dropped my subscription in the late 90’s.
Sci Am has become a disaster,
I occasionally refer back to the old classic issues I have on PDFs, and note with sadness how far it has fallen.
I, too, am an ex-reader/subscriber. The Weather Channel was for awhile carrying the water for AGW but lately they’ve dropped it. They have earned my undying respect.
SA has sadly become, as one commenter aptly titled it, a tabloid.
Wasn’t “Category 10” one of those bad Sci-Fi (Excuse me, SyFy) Saturday Night Movies?
Larry says:
August 24, 2011 at 2:55 pm
“Maybe a change in font would be more useful than new glasses. I had to study it for several minutes after reading the snarky put-down to work out that that was not a numeral “2″ but in fact is a greater than or equal to symbol.”
ctrl + is your friend.
Way ahead of you, Anthony. I canceled my subscription in the eighties because of crap like this.