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Some politicians have said that we are getting more hurricanes because of [[anthropogenic global warming]], but that is just a lot of [[hot air]]. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 20:32, 13 April 2007 (EDT)
Some politicians have said that we are getting more hurricanes because of [[anthropogenic global warming]], but that is just a lot of [[hot air]]. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 20:32, 13 April 2007 (EDT)
==Historical Trends==
I'm going to remove this quote. Abstracts should never contain an ad hominem attack; they should contain no rhetoric whatsoever. I strongly question the authenticity and accuracy of this little synopsis, seeing as it attempts to make a revelation of what is already well understood as a normal, natural phenomenon (the bi-decade(ish) hurricane cycle). To go along with it, any suggestion of using hurricane date from the early 1900's is preposterous; there was no unified system of recording storms. The same hurricane could be reported a dozen times from a dozen different sources, and there weren't nearly the instruments available to accurately measure the storms' intensities or tracks. Once again - one must question the quality of hurricane research that attempts to use data that is more than 200 years old.
As a matter of fact, it's nearly impossible to analyze actual trends in hurricane climatology, seeing as we only have several decades of data using satellite imagery. Any sort of analysis of storms of that magnitude without accurate satellite imagery is ludicrous; storms are mis-identified, mis-reported, reported numerous times, and aren't accurately measured.
Until these issues can be addressed, I don't think it's in the best interest of the interested Conservapedia reader to be posted here. I strongly recommend finding actual published studies that analyze the effects of global warming on hurricane climatology. I remember one a few months ago in the Journal of the American Meteorology Society, which did a fascinating study of how increased global temperatures were creating larger shear effects which hampered hurricane cyclonogenesis. It's these tangible, scientific studies that hurt people like Al Gore and the "Climate Alarmists" claims, not some half-butted piece of work that an undergrad student could refute. [[User:Stryker|Stryker]] 23:12, 7 July 2007 (EDT)