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Tropical Cyclones (Atlantic Ocean – Global Warming Effects: Frequency, The Past Century) — Summary
0via CO2Science.com
Have tropical storms and hurricanes of the Atlantic Ocean become more numerous over the past century, in response to what climate alarmists describe as unprecedented global warming? In an early attempt to answer this question, Bove et al. (1998)examined the characteristics of all recorded landfalling U.S. Gulf Coast hurricanes — defined as those whose eyes made landfall between Cape Sable, Florida and Brownsville, Texas — from 1896 to 1995. In doing so, they found that the first half of this period saw considerably more hurricanes than the last half: 11.8 per decade vs. 9.4 per decade, while the same was true for intense hurricanes of category 3 or more on the Saffir-Simpson storm scale: 4.8 vs. 3.6. In fact, the numbers of all hurricanes and the numbers of intense hurricanes both tended downward from 1966 to the end of the period investigated, with the decade 1986-1995 exhibiting the fewest intense hurricanes of the entire century. The three researchers concluded that “fears of increased hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico are premature.”
Noting that the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season was one of near-record tropical storm and hurricane activity, but that during the preceding four years (1991-94) such activity over the Atlantic basin was the lowest since the keeping of reliable records began in the mid-1940s, Landsea et al. (1998) studied the meteorological characteristics of the two periods to determine what might have caused the remarkable upswing in storm activity in 1995. In doing so, they found that “perhaps the primary factor for the increased hurricane activity during 1995 can be attributed to a favorable large-scale pattern of extremely low vertical wind shear throughout the main development region.” They also noted that “in addition to changes in the large-scale flow fields, the enhanced Atlantic hurricane activity has also been linked to below-normal sea level pressure, abnormally warm ocean waters, and very humid values of total precipitable water.” (more…)
Barclays Closes US Carbon Desk In Latest Cap And Trade Setback
0by Simon Lomax / AOL Energy / January 20, 2012 /
A major European bank closed its US carbon trading business this week in a sign that 2012 is a “make-or-break” year for cap-and-trade programs designed to fight climate change.
London-based Barclays determined the US carbon market, currently comprised of a handful of states, is too small to justify the expense of a dedicated trading desk in New York, according to sources familiar with the decision. Barclays was a major player in US greenhouse-gas trading programs on the East and West coasts and remains active in Europe’s carbon market, the largest in the world. Seth Martin, a Barclays spokesman, declined to comment.
“That is not good news for carbon-dioxide trading, especially not in the US,” says Gary Hart, a market analyst for ICAP Energy and a veteran pollution-rights trader. “There’s such uncertainty around the use of carbon cap-and-trade programs.”
h/t ClimateDepot.com
Presentation by global warming skeptics draws big crowd in Portland
0By Scott Learn / The Oregonian / January 26, 2012 /
More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change.
The event, hosted by the 150-member Oregon chapter of the American Meteorological Society, was open to the general public and drew an attentive and mostly sympathetic audience. Chapter President Steve Pierce asked for a show of hands beforehand, then estimated that 90 percent of the crowd favored the statement that human activities are not the main cause of global warming.
Three Oregon-based panelists — physicist Gordon Fulks, meteorologist Chuck Wiese and former Oregon state climatologist George Taylor — used long- and short-term temperature measurements and other data to bolster their case. (more…)
Climate Change Lawsuit In Court In Eugene
0via KTVZ.com / January 24, 2012 /
EUGENE, Ore. — A Lane County Circuit Court judge is deciding whether to allow a lawsuit brought by two girls against Gov. John Kitzhaber, accusing him of failing to protect the state’s resources against climate change. Judge Karsten Rasmussen heard arguments Monday and says he’ll take a few days before deciding on the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.
The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/X3rwlA ) it was filed in May by two Eugene girls – 11-year-old Olivia Chernaik and 15-year-old Kelsey Juliana – with the help of their mothers and funding from the environmental group called iMatter, as part of a national campaign. The girls want the court to order the governor to collect more information on greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce the impact of climate change. The state says that’s a legislative issue.
Climategate 2.0: Al Gore + Kilimanjaro = alarmist hype
0by Anthony Watts / via WattsUpWithThat.com / January 20, 2012 /
I’ve said many times that the claims of receding glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro by Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth, and by extension, the claims of Dr. Lonnie Thompson are nothing more than alarmist hype. The cause, deforestation leading to reduced evapotranspiration of moisture, rendering upslope winds less moisture laden, and thus depositing less precipitation on the summit. The ice then sublimates away. “Global warming” hasn’t anything to do with it.
A Climategate 2 email shows that Dr. Lonnie Thompson agrees privately, but spouts alarmism publicly. Now we have more on the story from the Miami Herald. It seems tour guides are seeing increased glacier growth now.