Is global warming to blame for the past two mild hurricane seasons?

Question

I ask because according to the alarmists, Katrina and Rita were a result of global warming, and I am sure that the next active hurricane season will be as well.

How do these alarmists reconcile invoking the all powerful global warming every time a hurricane hits, but conveniently become quiet every time their predictions fall short?

I am fully aware of that Samantha Stickers.

But are you saying that you do not see the double standard?

Why is it ok to blame individual active hurricane seasons on global warming, yet use the "long term trend" excuse during inactive seasons?

Answer 1

Now you are getting it. The alarmists are blaming everything bad (like the CA wildfires) on global warming and ignoring all else. Unfortunately people STILL believe them. Time to drown some polar bears.

Answer 2

First off, scientists have concluded that global warming increases the intensity of hurricanes, but not the frequency with which they form

http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_050731_hurricanes_stronger.html

Anyone who tells you that global warming is going to create more hurricanes is wrong (and no, Al Gore's film did not say that).

Furthermore, this has not been a weak hurricane season.

"The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It officially started June 1, 2007, and will last until November 30, 2007, dates that conventionally delimit the period when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin during the year. However, the formation of Subtropical Storm Andrea on May 9, 2007 marked an earlier beginning to the season. On August 20 Hurricane Dean was upgraded to category 5 status and made landfall at that strength on the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula. When Hurricane Felix reached category 5 status, 2007 became one of four recorded Atlantic seasons that have had more than one category 5 storm; the others being 1960, 1961 and 2005, and the only time two Atlantic hurricanes have ever made landfall at Category 5 strength in the same season. Hurricane Humberto also became the fastest developing storm on record to be so close to land. It strengthened from a 35 mph (55 km/h) tropical depression to an 85 mph (135 km/h) hurricane in 14 hours while 15 miles (24 km) off the coast of Texas."

Answer 3

According to the experts, Global Warming will give us more powerful and more frequent hurricanes and worse and worse hurricane seasons. But there is also natural variability. Let me see if I can describe it in a simple way that a child might understand. It is colder in the winter than in the summer. That doesn't mean that the earth is cooling. Global Warming is a long term climatic change. It is not a short term weather phenomena.

Answer 4

The environment is messed up period. Doesn't matter about the wording or the politics. It's messed up do to all of us.

The past two years bees don't even pollinate due to neonicotinate being used as a pesticide.

We are poisoning our planet and the weather is affected.

Answer 5

Hey there, Skippy...We have already had 14 named storms this year, and it ain't over yet....Rita was 18..Katrina was 11...But 20 years ago we rarely got up to 8...hhmmmmmmm

Answer 6

everything to them is a cause of global warming...they would respond by saying, in the future there will be more powerful hurricans blah blah blah....In reality I could say yes there will be powerful hurricans and less powerful ones, it doesnt have a thing to do w/ global warming, but it just all depends on the weather cycles for that year!

Answer 7

I'm going surfing just as soon as the tide drops.

Answer 8

People like that don't bother with pesky stuff like facts and causal effects and stuff, they just proceed on to the next frenzied cause.