Right... look at a "satellite" photo. Even if it's a ten year cycle, that means we're only seeing the second or third peak since we've been actively in space.
Named storms are not always large. Hurricanes yes, not necessarily trpoical storms
Many of these storms spin off into the atlantic (look at the track for Philippe) and don't come close to land. These are the ones that were probably missed before the modern era.
With regards to the golbal warming issue, I don't think the fact can be denied (just ask the wooly mammoths). The earth was covered with ice 20,000 years ago, and it melted. So you might argue that we've been in a bit of a warming trend for the past few thousand years. Humans may be contributing, but to consider them as the root cause is a bit anthropocentric.
Seems to me that we've just gotten better at finding the storms. I'm not sure that they've gotten that much more frequent.
They didn't have satellites, radar, stormchasing planes, etc. until fairly recently. How many storms were missed?
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Right... look at a "satellite" photo. Even if it's a ten year cycle, that means we're only seeing the second or third peak since we've been actively in space.
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Named storms are not always large. Hurricanes yes, not necessarily trpoical storms
Many of these storms spin off into the atlantic (look at the track for Philippe) and don't come close to land. These are the ones that were probably missed before the modern era.
http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/stor
With regards to the golbal warming issue, I don't think the fact can be denied (just ask the wooly mammoths). The earth was covered with ice 20,000 years ago, and it melted. So you might argue that we've been in a bit of a warming trend for the past few thousand years.
p r04/atlantic.pdf
Humans may be contributing, but to consider them as the root cause is a bit anthropocentric.
Ocean Currents are complex, and we're jsut staring to understand them.
There is a north atlantic current that seems to self-regulate temeperature. Shows how cyclical this climate change may be.
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/documents/pe-s
Seems to me that we've just gotten better at finding the storms. I'm not sure that they've gotten that much more frequent. They didn't have satellites, radar, stormchasing planes, etc. until fairly recently. How many storms were missed?