Not only that, but were global warming to actually occur, the increased water temperatures in the Atlantic would actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist Tom Knutson.
TheLedger.com carries the story from Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press:
Another group of experts, those who study hurricanes and who are more often skeptical about global warming, say there is no link. They attribute the recent increase to a natural multi-decade cycle.
What makes this study different is Knutson, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fluid dynamics lab in Princeton, N.J.
He has warned about the harmful effects of climate change and has even complained in the past about being censored by the Bush administration on past studies on the dangers of global warming.
He said his new study, based on a computer model, argues "against the notion that we've already seen a really dramatic increase in Atlantic hurricane activity resulting from greenhouse warming."
The study, published online Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, predicts that by the end of the century the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic will fall by 18 percent.
The number of hurricanes making landfall in the United States and its neighbors — anywhere east of Puerto Rico — will drop by 30 percent because of wind factors.
And, in semi-related news, despite Gore's name-calling on 60 Minutes, Dr. Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Sceince and Medicine is set to release, today, that more than 31,000 scientists -- 9,021 of whom hold PhDs -- have signed the OISM petition rejecting the claims of manmade global warming, reports the National Post.
Those 31,000+ scientists signed the OISM petition, which reads:
We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
Seems Al Gore's whole thing about 'settled science' and 'overwhelming consensus' is a bit ... faulty. Or, fabricated. Or, farcical.
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