Pirate's Cove

As regular as clockwork, as regular as moonbats marching in September and March, as regular as Al Gore’s climahypocricy, it seems every time there is a hurricane, the global warming causes hurricanes terminal stupidity starts up

• Wall Street Journal: Scientists Remain Divided Over Issue Of Changing Patterns in Storms
• Associated Press: Global warming’s toasty water connection to Gustav
• Gwynne Dyer: Hurricane Gustav hides evidence of melting Arctic sea ice
• ABC News: Future Storms, Global Warming Could Devastate Louisiana Coast
• Reuters: Hurricanes, floods show risks of climate change: UN
• Otago Daily News: Global warming and Gustav – why they’re connected

I think you get the point, and there are plenty more out there. Some of the even more fun ones do not have the hysteria in the headline, but in the article, such as this one

Forecasters predict an above-normal season during 2008, which appears to be connected with the global warming. It is already known that hurricanes need a certain minimum water temperature in order to form, with warmer water generating more numerous and more powerful hurricanes.

I wonder if they can explain the hurricanes during the cooler periods, such as the 1970 Bhola cyclone, which killed somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million in Bengladesh, and Typhoon Tip in 1979, which was one of the most powerful recorded storms ever. Notice that both of those were in the era around which several magazines said an new ice age was coming.

We also had Camille in 1969 and Allen in 1980. How about the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900? Typhoon Nancy in 1961 and Typhoon Ophelia in 1960? Nancy’s winds were originally measured up to 215 mph, which was overestimated, but, still pretty strong, and Ophelia traveled 8,500 miles, making it the longest tracked one ever.

But, good news! Latest science debunks Hurricanes and Global Warming Link. And the Canadian Free Press has lots of stories under that banner.

And, via Flopping Aces

Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

By Michael Asher
Daily Tech
September 1, 2008
Drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth.

The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.

The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on earth.

Heh! Science!