Where are the Hurricanes?

Question

Algore promised us more and stronger hurricanes would occur because of so called "global warming", but ever since he made that claim, the number of hurricanes have dropped to almost none.

Does this mean that Algores beliefs were just hyped up as a way to scare us? And if that is true, what other claims have Algore and the "global warming" crowd exaggerated to scare us to believing that "global warming" is real?

Answer 1

hurricanes are at the bottom of the ocean and when the waves come it makes the hurrican bigger and much stronger and it blows to the states

Answer 2

I bet Global Warming is real we just don't notice it yet. They predict that Global Warming will cause more hurricans, tornados, storms, harmful storms, and I think also earth quakes. Global Warming's not that bad yet, but it can get worse though out the years. Global Warming can make the Earth hotter and hotter till it burns (it won't burn in our life times). Something like the ice age, but the world then just got colder and colder till it froze, but it took a while to freeze. I think what caused the ice age is Global Cooling....... or a comet, but if it wasn't a comet it had to be Global Cooling. That might happen to the Earth, but with fire if we don't do something, even tho it won't burn in our life time we will relize hotter weather in our life time though out the years. Atleast if it's REALLY real, I think it is, well just because. On a NEWS or some type of channel I was looking at a while ago showed the ground being all brown and a fire or something started and on that channel in said something (I forget) and then it said "massive fires" and then the year poped up on the screen and they also said it "2050" so guess that's what they predicted to happen in 2050 if Global Warming continus, of course no one knows the future for sure and I'm sure some people are helping the world so it might not happen as early as 2050. They did discover holes in the Ozone layer so more heat it coming in and they also discovered that the North Pole, South Pole, and Antartica is melting. They said if they continu to melt then California, Flordia, and Hawiaii is going to go underwater, but I doubt that's going to happen in our life time because it will take a while to melt all of that ice naturally. If they do melt I don't REALLY think it will cover all of them states completly because that melted ice will melt into what ever ocean it's in (almost the WHOLE world), So if it does melt it will probley only leave some land under water. I also heard that if it continus to melt, the ocean level will rise higher and will stretch about 2 more feet across land so it might do that instead of putting states under water. I also heard that there was a blanket of some type of gases above the Earth that is keeping the Carbon in the Earth instead of letting the Carbon into Outer Space. When the sun shines they leave some heat from it's rays on Earth and the rest goes into the Solar System or however you explain it, well instead of the rest leaving the Earth the blanket thing is keeping it in the Earth witch is also make the Earth warmer. (The blanket isn't visible to the naked eye and I'm asuming it's high above the Earth or the planet would be hotter then it is now). If you wanna stop Global Warming from rising as fast as it is here are some things you can do:
1. Don't smoke.
2. Don't run your cars, trucks, motor cycles, and ect. for no reason.
3. Don't run electicitly for no reason.
4. Recycole.
5. Don't litter.
6. Don't pollute the enviorment.
7. Don't run factorys for no reason.
Stuff like that.

They just say some stuff that they asume is going to happen if Global Warming gets worse, but no one can predict the future for sure so you don't gotta worry about anything.
Well, I'll stop typing for now.

Bye bye!! =)

Answer 3

baypointmike, I think you need to work on your reading comprehension skills. The question was about Hurricanes and you link to data on Tornados.

Your real problem, however, is that you completely misread the data on Tornados that you link to. You suggest that there were 600 Tornadoes from Jan-Jun 06, and 1000 from Jan-Jun 07. This, you suggest, is evidence that Tornadoes are getting stronger and more frequent.

There is one problem with your hypothesis. The data that you link to shows just the opposite. It shows 712 (not 600) Tornados from Jan-Jun 06, 676 from Jan-Jun 05, and 964 from Jan-Jun 04. The 2007 data is not complete. The data shows that early year tornados have become LESS FREQUENT in the last few years.

If you look at the full year data, rather than just Jan-Jun like you did, you will see 1819 Tornados in 2004, 1264 in 2005, and 1105 in 2006. The number of Tornados reduced by 40% from 2004 to 2006. The data shows that Tornados are becoming less frequent rather than more as you suggest.

Answer 4

Al Gore said no such thing.

There is a possibility that global warming may lead to more--and more intense hurricanes. But--that is only a hypothesis, and no scientist has suggested it is any more than that. Which, if the "skeptics" actually knew anything about the science-even the difference between a conclusion and a hypothesis--they'd be aware of .

But the skeptics--so-called--are simply ignnorant, Either that or they are being deliiberately dishonest, knowilngly misrepresenting what scientists--and Al Gore--have said.

Answer 5

Adding energy to the air is like heating up a pot of water,
in time they will both react, even violently.
Have you read the latest from "Tornado Alley"?
You know, they had monster tornados, at least two of them were OVER A MILE WIDE!! Hard to believe, but it was recorded in TV. Their size and number are unprecedented.
Tornado Statistics
Jan-June in 2006 600 Tornadoes
Jan-June In 2007 1,000 Tornadoes
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I am sure you can think of 25 "reasons" why this ought to be ignored, if I wanted to do it, I could also think another 25.
Instead, why not wonder what happened to the survivors.
Did the President visit them? (Yes! I saw him on TV.) Do you know, or care.

Perhaps, we would not be so complacent if our home had been in that little town that lost ALL its buildings. I forgot its name, in time, everyone will forget the town and its people.
You may not be impressed! That may be the worst part of global warming, people will gradually become more adept at making "reasons" to dismiss all disasters.
They'd say, "It's their fault! They should have gone to the basement, moved to another state, etc." Blame The Victim Syndrome.

And, when global warming brings draught, wildfires, etc., all that burning will create more Greenhouse gases than all the oil and coal used in the world. It will be the "tip over" point.
The point at which we all will begin to wonder who should we forgive, before it is too late, for all living creatures on Earth.

We can die little by little by simply not caring for the fate of others, ignoring all and imagining what is pleasant..
Poem from WWII: "First the Nazis came"
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Catholic;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller (1892—1984), Protestant Minister.

Remember your roots, before reacting to the consequences
from tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, bored, busy, tired or whatever, and you are left alone..
Your roots is what helped you be who you are.

Answer 6

"Even though climate is chaotic, with weather states impossible to predict in detail more than a few days ahead, there is a predictable impact of anthropogenic forcing on the probability of occurrence of the naturally-occurring climatic regimes.

In our chaotic climate, it is impossible (indeed meaningless) to try to attribute a specific (eg severe) weather event to anthropogenic global warming. Hence, it is a false dichotomy to suppose that some recently-occurring drought or flood is either on the one hand caused by global warming, or on the other hand is merely due to natural climate variability.

Rather, the correct way to address such an issue is to ask instead whether anthropogenic climate change will increase or decrease the probability of occurrence of the type of drought or flood which we (or journalists pursuing some weather story provoked by a recent drought or flood) are interested. Such probabilities can be obtained, for example, from the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Climate Modelling's multi-model ensemble, made for the IPCC fourth assessment report.

In a chaotic climate, one cannot expect the time-series of global temperature to increase monotonically under the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Hence, for example, global mean temperatures were especially warm in 1998 because of the occurrence of a substantial El-Niño event. By the bullet above, it is meaningless to attribute the 1998 El-Niño event to global warming. Only by looking over long enough periods of time can one see the trend in global mean temperature due to anthropogenic climate change, above the "noise" of climatic variability."

This means that there is no predectibility for specific events, but the trends can be predicted.

Answer 7

open your eyes, man. take a look at katrina. sure, its only one hurricane. but its not like hurricanes happen every day. hurricanes form because when water is heated, steam rises, and through intense convection, the air travels at tremendous speeds. so if the earth gets hotter, its natural for hurricanes to form rapidly. algore may have exagerrated the truth slightly, but he has a point, and it should be considered.

Answer 8

Yes and the global warming crowd will be silent about the subject until a few hurricanes happen then it will be see, see, we told you so.

Answer 9

Global warming is a long-term trend. Repeat, global warming is a long-term trend. You are much too young to be pronouncing that there are no hurricanes. It will be many years before we know whether there have been more, not just one or two seasons.

Answer 10

There will probably be a few to come. There have already been several but failed to come on in to land. We were really need one to help put out the fires.

But forecasts are just forecasts. Predictions are just predictions. No one can really say for sure. They are getting better at it.

I never bet on the weather.