CNN/Reuters:Hurricane outlook worsens(even more, but warming not to blame)

[DeepModem Mom]

Hurricane outlook worsens
Tuesday, August 2, 2005

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be worse than previously expected with as many as 21 tropical storms and 11 hurricanes, U.S. government weather forecasters predicted Tuesday.

"Although we have already seen a record-setting seven tropical storms during June and July, much of the season's activity is still to come," Gerry Bell, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) meteorologist, told reporters.

In May, NOAA predicted the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season would be above normal, with up to 15 tropical storms and nine hurricanes....

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The new forecast, based on atmospheric conditions and warm ocean temperatures, would mean a record number of named, tropical storms. The previous record was 19 tropical storms in 1995, according to NOAA.

The increased activity is due to cyclical conditions, not global warming, NOAA officials said. Hurricane activity was low in the 1980s and early 1990s and a more active cycle of hurricanes is now under way, Bell said....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/02/hurricanes.reut/index.html

[wli]

1. not global warming? yeah, right

[Kelvin Mace]

2. That is the "BushCo NOAA"

Not the real NOAA.

[depakid]

3. More pandering by CNN

You might as well cite Pravda from the Breznev years.

I honestly don't know why people watch this shit- I guess they like being lied to and played for fools.

[anotherdrew]

6. it's called Stockholm syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Capture-bonding as a powerful evolved psychological trait in humans may also account for the bonding in military basic training ("training is a mildly traumatic experience intended to produce a bond"), sexual bondage practices and fraternity hazing as well as battered wife syndrome, where beatings and abuse are observed to generate seemingly paradoxical bonds between the victim and the abuser.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. I understand, but it's a Reuters story, carried on CNN's website. nt

[krkaufman]

4. Ummm... the article contradicts itself, then

The new forecast, based on atmospheric conditions and warm ocean temperatures...

So, the new forecast is based on warm ocean temperatures -- but NOT global warming.

[kestrel91316]

9. HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA

[anotherdrew]

5. cyclic variability is no expanation... what drives the cycles?

"increased activity is due to cyclical conditions, not global warming, NOAA officials said"

Please explain to me what generates and drives these 'cycles'. Let me guess, "more study is needed". But they KNOW it's cycles (which they can't explain the origin of) and they KNOW it's not 'global warming' (which they could explain the origins of).

Politics. These "NOAA officials" simply don't want to get airbrushed out of the picture.

[hatrack]

7. "Global Warming"? What is this "global warming" you speak of?!?"

Yes, those record warm ocean temperatures (N. Atlantic temps this year are the warmest ever recorded) and record number of storms couldn't have anything to do with global warming. Nosiree, Bob!!