For example, you’ll see a Level 5 hurricane instead of a Level 4.
Good call Jim. The last category five hurricane to hit the US was Andrew in 1992.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Hansen 1988 : More Category Five Hurricanes!
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Let’s see if they call Irene as a hit because of PR……
….If they do, they are lying.
The eye has to cross the coast!
WELLLLLL! That is how it used to be!
Now it is just the I of Irene crossing the coast.
Here is some Atlantic basin trivia for you. 1901 to present.
Hurricane Irene ended the growing single season record for most consecutive tropical storms failing to reach hurricane strength with 8 in a row. The old record was 6 in 1942, 2002.
I wonder how long it will be before they will start ‘adjusting’ windspeeds to compensate for the loss of velocity caused by the Earth’s rotation?
You planted the seed and we will see that by the end of this season! NHC reads this site to see what to do!
We made a comment about naming fish storms and clouds so they named more!
They did lower the wind speed level to be considered a CAT5 hurricane. Many past CAT4 hurricanes would now be CAT5 on the new scale.
Value added adjustments and they do not consider the changes just the fact it is now a CAT 5.
How does anyone know this is accurate info?
Hansen has made so many alarming claims that it does not matter when or even if he made a particular statement. Bob Reiss attributed the statement to Hansen.
Both are charter members of the Chicken Little Brigade. Hansen put on a Dog and Pony Show for Congress in 1988 that removed him from the realm of science and but him in the position of promoter. Every claim since then was to justify his job and promote additional monies for his work group.
It doesn’t look like Hansen made this claim in 1988:
“I don’t think of this as a futuristic problem but as a current one. It’s a problem that gets worse by increments. If you talk to Tom Karl, the head of the National Climatic [Data] Center, he’s more comfortable saying that there’s no weather event that’s not affected by the greenhouse effect now. If you look at terrible weather events in recent years, like Hurricane Mitch, you have to ask: At what point does extra rain cross a critical threshold and become a 100-year flood? At what point does a 100-year flood become a 500-year flood? Also, there can be surprises and all of the surprises were bad ones. For example, you’ll see a Level 5 hurricane instead of a Level 4. ”
He talks about the hurricane Mitch as a recent event and that didn’t happen until 1998.
Your quote was not about Hansen But Bob Reiss repeating claims from Tom Karl.
Thanks