Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Harvey & Irma are terrible, but…Major landfalling US hurricanes trending downwards over past 140 years’
Lomborg also noted: “And remember, helping future victims is NOT about cutting CO₂ (inefficient) but smart adaptation.” See: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1860/2717 …
Climate Depot’s point-by-point rebuttal to warmist claims on extreme weather events
Via UK Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/irma-hurricane-extreme-weather-events-climate-change-global-warming-experts-a7934211.html Jeffrey Kargel, from the Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona, urged governments to question their denial of climate change and get to work making their countries resilient enough to be able to deal with such extreme weather events… “Put most simply, Planet Earth’s climate is in upheaval […]
Claim: ‘Hurricane Irma Should Shut Up All the Global Warming Deniers for Good’
By Lauren Victoria Burke – 7:58am September 6, 2017 A second major Hurricane is headed to the East Coast of the United States, and this time, it looks like it will be historic. Hurricane Irma, is now headed for the Island of Barbuda, one of the first countries in the chain of Caribbean Islands in the Atlantic. […]
The Nation: ‘To refuse to act against global warming…is murder’ – ‘Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us’
https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-denialism-is-literally-killing-us/
‘Three Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the U.S. since 1924’
NYT: No, Hurricane Irma Won’t Be a ‘Category 6’ Storm By MAGGIE ASTOR – SEPT. 6, 2017 “The scale was developed 1 to 5,” Joel Myers, the founder and president of AccuWeather, said in an interview Tuesday evening. “When you develop a scale 1 to 5, there can’t be any Category 6.” The purpose of […]
Is Irma really strongest hurricane ever? ‘Not really’ – Ranked 10th for ‘intensity’ – Tied for 2nd in Wind Speed
By Cory Reppenhagen, KUSA -Meteorologist 9/News Colorado – 11:52 AM. MDT September 06, 2017 KUSA – You may have heard Hurricane Irma being termed the strongest hurricane to ever prowl the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, but is that technically correct? Not really, but it all depends on how you qualify it. Those who work in the visual media, […]
Claim: ‘Hurricane Irma’s epic size is being fuelled by global warming’
By Michael Le Page It’s a monster. As the eye of Hurricane Irma approached the tiny island of Barbuda this morning, wind speeds soared to 250 kph before the instrument broke. At the time of writing, all contact with the island had been lost and it is unclear how the 1600 inhabitants have fared. But already […]
‘Bloomberg News: Hurricane Irma Made Worse by Climate Change, Scientists Say’
Climate change didn’t cause Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm to form in the open Atlantic Ocean, but did make it much stronger, scientists in Germany and the U.K. said. Irma made landfall in the Caribbean early Wednesday and barreled toward Puerto Rico on a path that may bring it ashore in Florida and destroy […]