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Did Global Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Faster than Normal?
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:20 am
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:20 am
Did Global Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Faster than Normal?
By Neil L. Frank
Hurricane Ian “rapidly transformed from a relatively weak storm into a strong one, [a] phenomenon that has become more common” due to climate change.
So reported the New York Times in its daily email newsletter. It also said, “Ian embodies several of the major hurricane trends in recent years, as the world copes with the effects of climate change. It’s a strong storm -- and strong storms are becoming more common in the Atlantic Ocean, as its surface water has warmed.”
The prayers of a nation go out to the people in Florida devastated by Hurricane Ian, particularly those in the Ft. Myers area. Ian was indeed one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes ever to strike southwest Florida.
Unfortunately, the tragedy is compounded by climate-change activists who are using it for political purposes. They blame Ian on global warming. Headlines in the mainstream media claimed Ian was the fourth-strongest hurricane ever to hit Florida and that its strong winds were caused by global warming. Both statements are wrong.
The strength of a hurricane can be determined in two ways. First, you can fly into the storm and measure the winds. Second, you can drop a barometer into the eye and determine the pressure. There is an excellent relationship between wind and the pressure in the eye. The lower the pressure, the stronger the winds. If you know one, then you can calculate the other. For decades before the 1990s, pressure was the main factor in determining the strength of a hurricane.
Using pressure, Ian was not the fourth-strongest hurricane in Florida history but the tenth. The strongest hurricane in U.S. history moved through the Florida Keys in 1935. Among other Florida hurricanes stronger than Ian was another Florida Keys storm in 1919. This was followed by the hurricanes in 1926 in Miami, the Palm Beach/Lake Okeechobee storm in 1928, the Keys in 1948, and Donna in 1960. We do not know how strong the hurricane in 1873 was, but it destroyed Punta Rassa with a 14-foot storm surge. Punta Rassa is located at the mouth of the river leading up to Ft. Myers, where Ian made landfall.
Note well: all these hurricanes occurred before SUVs, so CO2 and the warming it purportedly causes were not their cause.
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By Neil L. Frank
Hurricane Ian “rapidly transformed from a relatively weak storm into a strong one, [a] phenomenon that has become more common” due to climate change.
So reported the New York Times in its daily email newsletter. It also said, “Ian embodies several of the major hurricane trends in recent years, as the world copes with the effects of climate change. It’s a strong storm -- and strong storms are becoming more common in the Atlantic Ocean, as its surface water has warmed.”
The prayers of a nation go out to the people in Florida devastated by Hurricane Ian, particularly those in the Ft. Myers area. Ian was indeed one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes ever to strike southwest Florida.
Unfortunately, the tragedy is compounded by climate-change activists who are using it for political purposes. They blame Ian on global warming. Headlines in the mainstream media claimed Ian was the fourth-strongest hurricane ever to hit Florida and that its strong winds were caused by global warming. Both statements are wrong.
The strength of a hurricane can be determined in two ways. First, you can fly into the storm and measure the winds. Second, you can drop a barometer into the eye and determine the pressure. There is an excellent relationship between wind and the pressure in the eye. The lower the pressure, the stronger the winds. If you know one, then you can calculate the other. For decades before the 1990s, pressure was the main factor in determining the strength of a hurricane.
Using pressure, Ian was not the fourth-strongest hurricane in Florida history but the tenth. The strongest hurricane in U.S. history moved through the Florida Keys in 1935. Among other Florida hurricanes stronger than Ian was another Florida Keys storm in 1919. This was followed by the hurricanes in 1926 in Miami, the Palm Beach/Lake Okeechobee storm in 1928, the Keys in 1948, and Donna in 1960. We do not know how strong the hurricane in 1873 was, but it destroyed Punta Rassa with a 14-foot storm surge. Punta Rassa is located at the mouth of the river leading up to Ft. Myers, where Ian made landfall.
Note well: all these hurricanes occurred before SUVs, so CO2 and the warming it purportedly causes were not their cause.
LINK
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:22 am to djmed
Sweet Jesus....they predicted the worst hurricane season of all time (missed the mark by some 22 hurricanes) and now they are making this crap up. They just keeping moving the narrative.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:24 am to djmed
Do things like science or evidence matter anymore? You will obey, or you will not have a job, a bank account, a home . . .
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:27 am to GhostOfFreedom
If the technology didn’t exist 70 years ago to fly into a hurricane and take pressure measurements every hour, how did they know a hurricane didn’t bomb out faster in the middle of the Atlantic in 1781?
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:28 am to jawnybnsc
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Do things like science or evidence matter anymore?
"Climate change" is not science. It's political science.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:29 am to GumboPot
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It's political science.
You misspelled economic.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:34 am to djmed
DeSantis is doing a superb job with Hurricane clean up.
It is all about politics with Biden trying to boost his poll numbers appearing unified. Right out the gate Biden hits up Climate Change
It is all about politics with Biden trying to boost his poll numbers appearing unified. Right out the gate Biden hits up Climate Change
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:36 am to djmed
All evidence points to the FACT that hurricanes have become weaker and less frequent over the last 50 years compared to the period from roughly 1890 to 1965.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:39 am to BengalOnTheBay
quote:The 1906 and 1916 hurricanes made mobile county, Alabama 600 feet shorter North to South.
All evidence points to the FACT that hurricanes have become weaker and less frequent over the last 50 years compared to the period from roughly 1890 to 1965.
None since - so NONSENSE. They are clearly getting weaker
This post was edited on 10/6/22 at 10:43 am
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:46 am to djmed
No, because global warming is fiction. It doesn’t exist.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:52 am to djmed
quote:
Did Global Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Faster than Normal?
Well, you can make that argument, but there's more to hurricane intensifaction than just hot oceans. Steering currents, wind shear, Sahara Dust, fronts, competing cyclones in the same region, etc. all suppress the strengthening. It just so happens Ian, like Ida the year before, was in an ideal environment to become a monster storm.
Same thing with Camille back in 1969; it became one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, long before SUVs were fouling the air.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:53 am to djmed
The only increase in intensity is the increase in the amount of property damage, not from the storms being more powerful themselves. There is more coastline development now than at any other time in our history, so, of course, these storms are going to be "more intense."
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:08 am to djmed
Caribbean had time to bake this year. The system moved over warm water with a lack of shear. The results were predictable.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:11 am to Ten Bears
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The only increase in intensity is the increase in the amount of property damage, not from the storms being more powerful themselves. There is more coastline development now than at any other time in our history
This all day long
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:16 am to djmed
Thxs, this is an excellent read by a Hurricane expert.
Much appreciated.
Much appreciated.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:36 am to djmed
NOAA had an article in the spring about how our responses to global warming/climate changing is actually causing these hurricanes to intensify faster. We are clearing the pollution from the US and moving it to Asia. As a result, the storms are able to intensify faster over here, and this is not happening in those areas where the US moved its manufacturing to claim they are fighting climate change.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:41 am to djmed
There is nothing Global Warming can't do.
The only thing it is missing is ShamWow Guy.
The only thing it is missing is ShamWow Guy.
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