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3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time
Kristine Lofgren writes: For the first time in recorded history, three Category 4 hurricanes were seen in the Pacific Ocean at the same time. Climatologists have been warning that climate change may produce more extreme weather situations, and this may be a peek at the future to come. Eric Blake, a specialist with the National Hurricane Center summed it up with a tweet: "Historic central/eastern Pacific outbreak- 3 major hurricanes at once for the first time on record!"
Probably if two of these three collide, they would destructively interfere and tear each other apart. But, every once in a while if the conditions are just right, they could form a global warming MegaSharknado!
Seriously, this is all just hokum anyway. Weather is wildly unpredictable and constantly variable. There will always be something happened that hasn't happened in $ARBITRARYTIMEFRAME. This is not proof of global warming or anything else, other than weather is unpredictable and we don't records that go back very far. The last two winters where I live have been brutal, and arctic sea ice hit an all time record last year as I recall. Why do people keep spouting this nonsense? I guess if you aren't religious and so lose the ability to chalk everything up to Acts of God, it's human nature to invent another fantasy to follow because there always has to be a reason, nothing can ever just be happening at random, that would be a skeery universe!
Weather =/= Climate
Or are you going to try and claim that the climatologists were lying the last time they said that over an abnormally cold winter?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Last night I had a conversation with someone about kitchen knives, and then just this afternoon I had ANOTHER conversation with a different person about kitchen knives. Two conversations on kitchen knives within 24 hours! That has never happened before. Sure climate change is to blame for it.
Proverbs 21:19
Can we just have science instead of hysteria?
OK. Here's a summary of number of hurricanes and tropical storms, as of 2011 (about the latest good data I can find):
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/tropical-cyclones/201113
I'm not sure I can distinguish a trend from the noise.
But on the other hand, I haven't ever seen a prediction telling me that I should be able to see the trend. Here's what NOAA says:
www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes
"It is premature to conclude that human activities--and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming--have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity."
And here what the Center for Climate and Energy Impacts says:
www.c2es.org/science-impacts/extreme-weather/hurricanes
"It’s unclear whether climate change will increase or decrease the number of hurricanes, but warmer ocean surface temperatures and higher sea levels are expected to intensify their impacts."
Unless you are Obama, for whom history began on January 20, 2009, the day on which the rise of the seas was stopped and the healing of the earth begun
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