I’m mulling over another atrocious piece of Climate Science Contrarian Fraud, this time by one Steven Capozzola a corporate public relations guy turned self-styled smarter-than-the-experts pundit. His article “Climatologist Tries to Justify 11-year Hurricane Drought in New York Times Op-Ed” , July 15, 2016, ClimateChangeDispatch has been another parade of crafty disinformation intent on dumbing down its readers, you can read about it in my next posting.
In any event, the following paragraphs got me to looking into this supposed hurricane drought and here's a list of Atlantic and East Pacific ocean hurricanes and tropical storms since 2005, followed by a look at 2015 Northern Hemisphere category 4 and 5 hurricanes. This information put the lie to Capozzola's spin fest.
Capozzola writes: It’s interesting to note that Sobel couches his statements with a series of disclaimers. Of hurricanes and climate, he says the “knowledge is far from perfect.” And he cites the arguments of his opponents to make a few safe caveats—he blames “natural variability” for the current hurricane drought.
Steven is the one couching his deceptive claim that simply because our coast has, sort of, been spared major hurricane damage in the past few years that somehow means we shouldn't be listening to the actual experts.
I know these weren’t category 3 or above, but seems to me they were pretty good lessons in what global warming enhanced storms will be doing to our coast, but then some refuse to learn:
Hurricane Ike - September 2008
Although it was classified as a category 2 storm, Ike remains the third costliest hurricane in U.S. history after Katrina and 1992’s Andrew. Total damage: $25 billion, mostly in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Hurricane Sandy - October 29, 2012
Summary: Hurricane Sandy was the 18th named tropical cyclone of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 - November 30). Sandy formed in the central Caribbean on October 22nd and intensified into a hurricane as it tracked north across Jamaica, eastern Cuba and the Bahamas. Sandy moved northeast of the United States until turning west toward the mid Atlantic coast on the 28th. Sandy transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone just prior to moving onshore near Atlantic City, NJ. For a complete summary of Sandy, view the National Hurricane Center Sandy Tropical Cyclone Report
Hurricane Patricia - landfall near Playa Cuixmala in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico on October 23rd, 2015 had sustained winds topping out at 215 MPH and the atmospheric pressure dropped to 872 millibars (lowest on record in the Western Hemisphere and second lowest ever recorded in the world.) https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast
Hurricane Patricia - landfall near Playa Cuixmala in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico on October 23rd, 2015 had sustained winds topping out at 215 MPH and the atmospheric pressure dropped to 872 millibars (lowest on record in the Western Hemisphere and second lowest ever recorded in the world.) https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast
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Capozzola writes: Again, it’s somewhat embarrassing that the New York Times would publish an op-ed that essentially says: ‘We haven’t seen any major hurricanes for 11 years, we don’t really know why, our climate science is uncertain, our predictive computer models are limited, but we’re certain we’ll see more frequent and intense hurricanes soon because of increased CO2 emissions.’
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What’s embarrassing is that adults embrace such a cartoonish perception of our global heat and moisture distribution system, aka the climate system we depend on for everything.
Atlantic Hurricane Season
2005
• Tropical Storm Arlene – PDF
• Tropical Storm Bret – PDF
• Hurricane Cindy1 – PDF
• Hurricane Dennis2 – PDF
• Hurricane Emily – PDF
• Tropical Storm Franklin – PDF
• Tropical Storm Gert – PDF
• Tropical Storm Harvey – PDF
• Hurricane Irene – PDF
• Tropical Depression Ten – PDF
• Tropical Storm Jose – PDF
• Hurricane Katrina3 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Lee – PDF
• Hurricane Maria – PDF
• Hurricane Nate – PDF
• Hurricane Ophelia4 – PDF
• Hurricane Philippe – PDF
• Hurricane Rita5 – PDF
• Tropical Depression Nineteen – PDF
• Hurricane Stan – PDF
• Subtropical Storm (Unnamed)6 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Tammy – PDF
• Subtropical Depression Twenty-Two – PDF
• Hurricane Vince – PDF
• Hurricane Wilma7 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Alpha – PDF
• Hurricane Beta – PDF
• Tropical Storm Gamma – PDF
• Tropical Storm Delta – PDF
• Hurricane Epsilon – PDF
• Tropical Storm Zeta – PDF
2006
• Tropical Storm Alberto1 – PDF
• Tropical Storm (Unnamed)2 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Beryl – PDF
• Tropical Storm Chris – PDF
• Tropical Storm Debby – PDF
• Hurricane Ernesto – PDF
• Hurricane Florence3 – PDF
• Hurricane Gordon – PDF
• Hurricane Helene – PDF
• Hurricane Isaac – PDF
2007
• Subtropical Storm Andrea – PDF
• Tropical Storm Barry – PDF
• Tropical Storm Chantal – PDF
• Hurricane Dean – PDF
• Tropical Storm Erin – PDF
• Hurricane Felix – PDF
• Tropical Storm Gabrielle – PDF
• Hurricane Humberto – PDF
• Tropical Storm Ingrid – PDF
• Tropical Depression Ten – PDF
• Tropical Storm Jerry – PDF
• Hurricane Karen1 – PDF
• Hurricane Lorenzo – PDF
• Tropical Storm Melissa – PDF
• Tropical Depression Fifteen – PDF
• Hurricane Noel – PDF
• Tropical Storm Olga – PDF
2008
• Tropical Storm Arthur – PDF
• Hurricane Bertha – PDF
• Tropical Storm Cristobal – PDF
• Hurricane Dolly – PDF
• Tropical Storm Edouard – PDF
• Tropical Storm Fay – PDF
• Hurricane Gustav1 – PDF
• Hurricane Hanna – PDF
• Hurricane Ike2 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Josephine – PDF
• Hurricane Kyle – PDF
• Tropical Storm Laura – PDF
• Tropical Storm Marco – PDF
• Tropical Storm Nana – PDF
• Hurricane Omar – PDF
• Tropical Depression Sixteen – PDF
• Hurricane Paloma – PDF
2009
• Tropical Depression One – PDF
• Tropical Storm Ana – PDF
• Hurricane Bill – PDF
• Tropical Storm Claudette – PDF
• Tropical Storm Danny – PDF
• Tropical Storm Erika – PDF
• Hurricane Fred – PDF
• Tropical Depression Eight – PDF
• Tropical Storm Grace – PDF
• Tropical Storm Henri – PDF
• Hurricane Ida – PDF
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
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Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons
2005
• Hurricane Adrian – PDF
• Tropical Storm Beatriz – PDF
• Tropical Storm Calvin – PDF
• Tropical Storm Dora – PDF
• Tropical Storm Eugene – PDF
• Hurricane Fernanda – PDF
• Tropical Storm Greg – PDF
• Hurricane Hilary – PDF
• Tropical Storm Irwin – PDF
• Hurricane Jova – PDF
• Hurricane Kenneth – PDF
• Tropical Storm Lidia – PDF
• Hurricane Max – PDF
• Tropical Storm Norma – PDF
• Hurricane Otis – PDF
• Tropical Depression Sixteen-E – PDF
2006
• Tropical Storm Aletta – PDF
• Tropical Depression Two-E – PDF
• Hurricane Bud – PDF
• Hurricane Carlotta – PDF
• Hurricane Daniel1 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Emilia – PDF
• Tropical Storm Fabio – PDF
• Tropical Storm Gilma – PDF
• Hurricane Hector – PDF
• Hurricane Ileana – PDF
• Hurricane John – PDF
• Hurricane Kristy – PDF
• Hurricane Lane – PDF
• Tropical Storm Miriam – PDF
• Tropical Storm Norman – PDF
• Tropical Storm Olivia – PDF
• Hurricane Paul – PDF
• Tropical Depression Eighteen-E – PDF
• Tropical Storm Rosa – PDF
• Tropical Depression Twenty-E – PDF
• Hurricane Sergio – PDF
2007
• Tropical Storm Alvin – PDF
• Tropical Storm Barbara – PDF
• Tropical Depression Three-E – PDF
• Tropical Depression Four-E – PDF
• Tropical Depression Five-E – PDF
• Hurricane Cosme – PDF
• Tropical Storm Dalila – PDF
• Tropical Storm Erick – PDF
• Hurricane Flossie – PDF
• Tropical Storm Gil – PDF
• Hurricane Henriette – PDF
• Hurricane Ivo – PDF
• Tropical Depression Thirteen-E – PDF
• Tropical Storm Juliette – PDF
• Tropical Storm Kiko – PDF
2008
• Tropical Storm Alma – PDF
• Hurricane Boris – PDF
• Tropical Storm Cristina – PDF
• Tropical Storm Douglas – PDF
• Tropical Depression Five-E – PDF
• Hurricane Elida – PDF
• Hurricane Fausto – PDF
• Hurricane Genevieve – PDF
• Hurricane Hernan – PDF
• Tropical Storm Iselle – PDF
• Tropical Storm Julio – PDF
• Tropical Storm Karina – PDF
• Tropical Storm Lowell – PDF
• Hurricane Marie – PDF
• Hurricane Norbert – PDF
• Tropical Storm Odile – PDF
• Tropical Depression Seventeen-E – PDF
• Tropical Storm Polo – PDF
2009
• Tropical Depression One-E – PDF
• Hurricane Andres – PDF
• Tropical Storm Blanca – PDF
• Hurricane Carlos – PDF
• Tropical Storm Dolores – PDF
• Tropical Depression Six-E/Tropical Storm Lana1 – PDF
• Tropical Storm Enrique – PDF
• Hurricane Felicia – PDF
• Tropical Depression Nine-E – PDF
• Hurricane Guillermo – PDF
• Tropical Storm Hilda – PDF
• Tropical Storm Ignacio – PDF
• Hurricane Jimena – PDF
• Tropical Storm Kevin – PDF
• Hurricane Linda – PDF
• Tropical Storm Marty – PDF
• Tropical Storm Nora – PDF
• Tropical Storm Olaf – PDF
• Tropical Storm Patricia – PDF
• Hurricane Rick – PDF
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
• Hurricane Sandra – PDF – KMZ – SHP
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2015 Sets a New Record for Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes and Typhoons
A record 22 hurricanes or typhoons have reached Category 4 or 5 strength in the Northern Hemisphere this year.
The record was broken on Oct. 17 when Koppu became the nineteenth storm to reach this intensity prior to slamming into the Philippines as a super typhoon. Since then, Super Typhoon Champi, Hurricane Olaf and Hurricane Patricia added to the total. …
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21 hurricanes and typhoons that shattered records in 2015
BY ANDREW FREEDMAN AND JOHNNY SIMON | OCT 22, 2015
UPDATED 2:45 p.m. ET: Since this story was posted, yet another storm — Hurricane Patricia — in the eastern Pacific intensified to Category 4 status, making it 22 Category 4 and 5 storms that have formed so far this year.
The combination of El Niño, other natural climate cycles and global warming have supercharged this year's tropical cyclone season in the northern hemisphere to the point where all-time records have been blown away.
Specifically, there have now been 21 typhoons and hurricanes in the hemisphere — all but one of which occurred in the Pacific Ocean — that have reached the most intense levels of the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, Category 4 and 5. This beat the past record of 18, set in 2004.
One of the strongest El Niño events ever recorded has provided storms with an ample amount of fuel in the form of warm ocean waters across the tropical Pacific, and has also helped squelch tropical activity in the North Atlantic Basin.
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