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RE: so this story says...
By omnicronx on 1/14/2009 12:42:51 PM , Rating: 1
I'm not a believer in man made global warming, but this article is pretty baseless. While there is no definitive proof that the oceans warming causes stronger hurricanes, trends for the past 15 years, in which we have had the hottest temperatures on record have had more hurricanes, and some of the strongest hurricanes on record. (which to mashers defense is not that big of a period). This being said, there is far more evidence that would prove that an increase in the earths temperature does effect the strength/frequency of hurricanes, than evidence that would prove otherwise.

Masher, we know that man made global warming is probably a myth, but you are starting to tread in areas in which short term data is far more reliable.

RE: so this story says...
By masher2 (blog) on 1/14/2009 12:51:01 PM , Rating: 4
I'm sorry if the article didn't make it clear, but this study, along with countless others, attributes the current post-1970s trend as being due to ENSO effects, rather than global warming. For instance, see this:



RE: so this story says...
By omnicronx on 1/15/2009 5:20:57 PM , Rating: 2
I'm just not convinced here. Correlating Pacific events such as El Nino to Altantic Hurricanes is far from conclusive evidence. Furthermore even if El Nino does directly effect hurricane activity in the Atlantic, its as a result of certain bodies of water raising in temperature and others cooling is it not? I don't see how this would increase the quantity and the severity of recent hurricanes. Its quite possible I am missing something here, as I do not quite understand your findings.

RE: so this story says...
By theendofallsongs on 1/20/2009 11:31:51 PM , Rating: 3
I'm just not convinced here
Google is your friend. Search "hurricane" and "el nino" and you get about 300,000 links showing you how this is true. Was that so hard?

It is now well-accepted that El Niño reduces hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin

