I recently read an article over at the Duke Chronicle that discussed the link between global warming and hurricanes and, more importantly, the inability to link global warming and hurricanes.  The article says that Hurricane Ike reignited the debate of whether or not a link exists between hurricanes and climate change.  Having done my own study on the connection between tropical systems and temperature, I can tell you that I didn’t see any connection.  Activists, however, see things differently.  Al Gore recently tried to link the two, citing higher temperatures …

(Via Heliogenic Climate Change).  Fewer severe tropical cyclones around the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico when sunspot numbers are high is the basis of the relationship between hurricanes and solar activity.
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Here you go, folks.  This is a prime example of the climate change crowd not towing the same line.  The Latin America Press uses a single storm season to proclaim the dangers of climate change.  From hurricanes Ike and Gustav to Fay and Hanna, the media is championing the need for more government intervention to stop global warming.  While the climate change crowd can use one hurricane season to proclaim global warming to be real, skeptics can point to no net warming over the last ten and be met with …

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WIth Hurricane Gustav dealing a glancing blow to New Orleans, the city won’t, at least for now, experience an event similar to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  With Katrina being the poster storm of the modern global warming movement, I wonder where the global warming activists are with the latest round of tropical storms.  There have been Hurricanes Bertha, Fay, Gustav and now Hanna (recently downgraded to a tropical storm) so far this year that have been contenders for threats to the mainland United States.  Gustav only made the Democrats suddenly …

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These guys just can’t get their predictions right, so why even bother trying? The new forecast says there’s an 85% change of an above-normal season, up from 65% in May. The original forecase called for 12 to 16 named storms but that has been revised to 14 to 18 named storms, of which seven to 10 are expected to become hurricanes. Original forecast here: Read More: www.skepticsglobalwarming.com and another one here:

Researchers at MIT have determined that global warming causes a decrease in hurricane activity, contrary to what Al Gore led us to believe in his film An Inconvenient Truth.  A report published in May of this year goes further with the original study from Kerry Emanuel in March to say that Atlantic activity is expected to decrease 18% by the end of the century.  I did an independent investigation just a few weeks ago that showed no link between hurricanes, hurricane intensity and global warming.
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With predictions of more severe hurricanes and storms thanks to global warming (which I debunked earlier this week), Dr. William Gray has another idea.  He says that global warming has been grossly exaggerated and calls all the dire warnings “hype”.  Gray also took a swipe at the mainstream media for creating unnecessary public hysteria over global warming.
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Taking a cue from recent research into tornadoes and global warming, I set out on a journey over the weekend to discover if a link exists between total hurricane strike count and global warming as well as hurricane strike intensity and global warming.  I’ve graphed the results of my study below.
Before getting into the results, however, I must point out a few things.  First, the hurricane data used for this study is from the National Weather Service’s site here and the temperature variance data is from NASA’s GISS website, which …