By Paul Homewood
The ambulance chasers are out, even though the ambulances have not set off yet!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48973819
Hurricanes are extremely dangerous and costly under any circumstances, and to try to tease out tiny changes, which may or may not be the result of a slightly warmer climate, is the work of a charlatan.
By far the most important factor is the NUMBER and STRENGTH of hurricane landfalls, which for some reason McGrath forgot to mention:
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
During the current decade (beginning 2010), the number of US landfalling hurricanes is at a record low of eleven. Even if this year ends up with a couple of hurricanes, round about average, this decade will still end up as one of the quietest since records began.
By far the worst decades for hurricane activity were the 1880s and 1940s.
As Joe Bastardi pointed out a few months ago, people would have a fit if we were to experience the sort of major hurricane hits that they did in the 1940s and 50s:
As for McGrath’s theory about higher rainfall rates, scientists who know about these things say that they can detect no global trends in hurricane rainfall rates.
As for his assertion that Hurricane Harvey was moving slowly because of global warming is absurd and simply not true. Meteorologists explained at the time, the stalling of Harvey was because it was stuck between two ridges of high pressure.
As Rick Mitchell pointed out on his TV slot , “it was just a function of the weather patterns at the time. And that’s the way the weather works”
Sorry, Matt McGrath. But I would rather believe the experts than you. After all, your track record in these matters is not exactly confidence inspiring, is it?
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July 13, 2019 at 01:18PM
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