MIT Prof on Global Warming & Hurricanes: Transcript & MP3s

[Junkdrawer]

A short excerpt:

GELLERMAN: So, the higher the temperature of the sea surface, the more intense and the greater the duration of hurricanes?

EMANUEL: That's right. And we predicted that you should see about a ten percent increase in wind speed for every two degree sea change. That theoretical prediction has been backed up since then by lots of modeling that has been done elsewhere by other groups.

GELLERMAN: So what you expected to see was a nine percent increase and you're actually getting 80 percent?

EMANUEL: Yeah, 70 to 80 percent. So the prediction was way off.


http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00035&segmentID=3

So the "1 mph is due to Global Warming" meme the MSM is pushing seems to come from models that are way, way off...

[Coastie for Truth]

1. My post-hurricane season mathematical recreations?

Well, I have ordered:

* "Meteorology Today With Infotrac: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment" By: C. Donald Ahrens
* "Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers: A Technical Companion Book to C. Donald Ahrens' Meteorology Today" By: Roland B. Stull
* "Workbook/Study Guide Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment" By: Donald D. Ahrens
* "An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology" By: James R. Holton

Includes lots of MatLab and C++ scripts
* "Companion Software for "Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology""
* "Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes" by Kerry Emanuel

I want to play with the code.