A useful Category 5 editorial on hurricanes from the Indy: The Big Question: Are there more hurricanes, and are they the result of global warming?
Especially as Dean did not quite deliver what the news media obviously were hoping. This seems a very balanced piece, though.
My only caution beyond this is that casualty figures do not get used willy-nilly to support things getting 'worse', rather meteorological facts. The sad fact is that there are more of us, in more exposed places than ever before, so death and damage are inevitably going to increase.
'Course, it won't help if there are more of the things and they are bigger too.
Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
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Hurricane frequency and intensity seem to be becoming another in the ever growing list of 'it is climate change caused - oh no its not climate change caused' arguments.
ReplyDeleteJust a very brief trawl finds several reports concluding the former - e.g. this from Science Daily, July 30th.
But also in Science Daily on June 6th is this report which concludes that hurricane intensity is a cyclical sort of pattern and nothing to do with climate change.
Amazing what you can do with statistics isn't it? And even more amazing are the comments that various media types manage to extract from them!