Have we gotten a single hurricane worth speaking about in the eastern US this year?
2007-10-05 17:42:43 · 9 answers · asked by junglejoe 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
My global warming professors swear that we are getting record numbers of hurricanes in the US.
Oddly, they can hardly mention any for this year.
2007-10-05 17:58:36 · update #1
You haven't been paying much attention, have you?
Just because a hurricane doesn't hit New Jersey doesn't mean that we haven't had severe and deadly ones this year. We've already had a handful, including several Level 7s. They just haven't come up the Atlantic coast. One of them left ten thousand people homeless in Central America
And Global Warming is raising the world's water level to the extent that they become more severe.
Edit: John is , of course, right. Level 5 is the highest classification. My bad. Still, just because the East Coast wasn't hit with a hurricane doesn't mean that Texas or Central America were spared.
2007-10-05 17:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We had none last year and what? maybe one this year around Texas?
My way of explaining this crap is imagine a sine wave. The wave represents all of history and the tempature level during that time. Our perceptions only cover a fraction of the sine wave. How is it possible for us to know whether we are in an "up" cycle or a "down" cycle? We can't see that far either foward or backward. However, the historical evidence suggests that we have been both cooler and hotter in the past. Which should discount the idea of man-made global warming in the present.
Dr. Watson, the Saffir-Simpson scale only goes to 5. There is no 7.
2007-10-05 18:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think the global warming has anything to do with it. Both hurricanes and tornadoes are very unpredictable. That is to say the East Coast could still get a tremendous hurricane.
2007-10-05 17:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by Emissary 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Scientists have determined that global warming likely makes hurricanes stronger, but does not effect the frequency with which they form.
2007-10-08 05:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. We just got lucky this year. Supposedly when sea water is above 80 degrees, that's when the hurricanes happen. So we should expect to see more of them, and farther north.
2007-10-05 17:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by ready4sea 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Do we want ONE?>
this is not a question ,, it's just a lead to his point of view.. which is wrong,, come on the earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age!
2007-10-05 17:45:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thought Global Warming caused hurricanes? blah blah blah
2007-10-05 17:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by KRR 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What ever happens. Or doesn't happen. Is the fault of global warming.
2007-10-05 17:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Your question is convoluted. Rephrase?
2007-10-05 17:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by douglas l 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋