"Kyrill" is product of the climatic change?

Answer 1

I completely agree with ‘damabb’ (above) on this one. As he says; “They don't happen often, but they are not 'unnatural' events in Europe.”

I also agree with him that these sorts of events tend to get hijacked by the global warming alarmist brigade, blown out of all proportion and presented to the unsuspecting public as “extreme”, “catastrophic” and “never seen before” proof that global warming is going to be a disaster for planet Earth.

The classic example of this phenomenon was, of course, hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.

Global Warming Alarmists version.

Hurricane Katrina was a massive storm, caused by global warming, the like of which has never been seen before. Just look at the damage and flooding it caused in New Orleans. No hurricane has ever caused that much damage and flooding before. Therefore hurricane Katrina *must* have been the biggest storm ever. Therefore global warming is going to be a catastrophe.

The truth.

Parts of New Orleans are 6m below sea level and below the water level of both Lake Pontchatrain to the north and the nearby Mississippi river. To protect the city from flooding, levees were built to keep the water out.

Hurricanes are measured on a scale from 1 to 5. A Category 1 storm is small and a Category 5 storm is huge.

Despite the hype from the Global Warming Alarmists, hurricane Katrina was, in fact, a Category 5 hurricane; big, to be sure, but within the normal range for hurricane activity. It was not the “biggest storm ever”, it was not even the biggest storm of 2005 (it was the third biggest.)

Furthermore, as Katrina approached New Orleans, it weakened and was re-categorised as a Category 4 hurricane, and, after landfall, was re-categorised again to a Category 3 – so, whilst still big, it was *not* a huge storm when it passed New Orleans.

So why was there so much flooding? Because the levees protecting New Orleans were only ever designed to protect the city from a Category *3* hurricane.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that, when you set a Category 4 hurricane loose on defences designed to withstand only a Category 3 hurricane, the defences are going to fail.

The disaster in New Orleans could have happened the week after the defences were completed. It didn’t. It happened on 29th August 2005. It was not caused by global warming, it was simply bad luck.

It is probably also worth mentioning that New Orleans was devastated by hurricanes 3 times in the 1700s, long before global warming started.

As always with global warming…

Don’t believe the hype.

Answer 2

It is impossible to say whether the Kyrill storm was an effect of climate change (though it is becoming irritatingly fashionable to connect ANY weather event with global warming). Kyrill was an extreme low pressure system, but, for all but the mountainous regions, windspeeds were nowhere near as strong as the storm that hit Britain in 1987.

They don't happen often, but they are not 'unnatural' events in Europe.

Answer 3

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