Originally posted by: stev
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: FoBoT
what happened? how come the global warming didn't make many hurricanes this year?
Because the people hiding in academia really don't know what is going on in the real world. Their science has to be tailored to fit inside an agenda to get the proper funding so they are not usually in step with reality. They will simply claim that the extremely slow storm season is all part of the GW bigger picture.....it is kind of like religion.
I never saw a single peer-reviewed article stating a link between an increase in hurricane frequency or intensity. I have seen plots of both quantities over the last 50 years and nothing jumps out at me as a long-term trend. Even if someone did make a case for this, certainly there isn't a majority of scientists on board with this.
The National Hurricane Center puts out their forecast for the number of hurricanes each year based on the average. Weather forecasting is only truly reliable 3 days out so you can imagine a forecast for what will happen over an entire hurricane season is very difficult. That's why they keep it to a statement of departure from the average.
Some people in the Internet world want their fake science to be tailored to fit inside their own agenda. I have seen grant proposals and even had to sign some of them as a grad student. One of my advisors has been called a "climate change skeptic" and the other was very convinced of climate change (you probably think he's part of the conspiracy). Neither of them have ever had any trouble getting funding from the government.
<-- Earned a master's degree in atmospheric sciences (though I didn't do hurricane research).
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