Tag: sea-surface temperature

2024’s Hurricanes Helene & Milton

 and claims their power was juiced by “Human-Caused Climate Change”  

Robert W. Endlich

Author’s note: This post is based upon the presentation graphics, on-line here, for the 19 October 2024 meeting.

PRELUDE: THE 2024 HURRICANE SEASON BEFORE HELENE

The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season got off to a late start; Tropical Storm Alberto did not form until 19 June, the latest named storm since 2014. Then, Hurricane Beryl was a long-lasting (around 14 days) system; she began in the Cape Verde Islands region, tracked past Jamaica, crossed Yucatan, entered Texas near Matagorda and weakened, with her remnants getting to the eastern Great Lakes region, before dissipating, 11 Jul 2024.

From Wikipedia,

“Activity then quieted down across the basin for most of July after Beryl dissipated, with no new tropical cyclones forming due to the presence of the Saharan air layer (SAL) across much of the Atlantic.” Continue reading “2024’s Hurricanes Helene & Milton”

Climate Data Is Being Misused and Manipulated, Says Award-Winning Scientist

By Patrick Michaels, H. Sterling Burnett 

Climate scientist Patrick Michaels says there has been a profound suspension of the normal rules of science in the climate arena.

For Michaels’ presentation at ICCC 13 click here.

Burnett: You coauthored a book titled Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything. What is the thesis of the book?

copyright 2016 by Cato Institute

Michaels: Global warming is often presented as one of two alternative visions: left unattended, it will bring about an unmitigated disaster with tremendous consequences to humanity and the planet; or there is really “no such thing”—meaning little to no warming and little to no influence of human greenhouse-gas emissions on climate.

[This interview was originally published by the Heartland Institute on December 5th, 2019.  It is being printed here with the permission of Dr. H. Sterling Burnett from the Heartland Institute.]

There is a third way. I call it the ‘lukewarm” synthesis, which holds the surface temperature indeed is a bit warmer than it was around 1900, that Continue reading “Climate Data Is Being Misused and Manipulated, Says Award-Winning Scientist”