"Prosecute Killer Koch Bros for Global Warming Deaths"
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"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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James wrote:
Prior to the first satellite that looked at this stuff sometime in
the
70s,
many storms went unnoticed.

Yes. When I looked at hurricane data I also found increases
at about the time ships gave up sail power, and another near
the time when ships started carrying radio.

That's a problem to be sure, but I don't think it's the major
one here. According to what I have read, models do not
show increasing hurricanes for another half-century or so.
I think everyone is counting hurricanes before they're hatched.
This business about increasing strengths, is tricky to model
and hard to measure, so the claims are hard to verify. Put
me in the doubters camp on this issue, at least for about
another two decades.


How about a few more decades. To compare 1995 - 2005 is a bit much
comparing the period the 1950 -1960 don't you think?

"The North Atlantic data clearly show that - in the last
decade (since 1995) relative to the decade centered around 1950
(previous peak period) - there are 50% more named storms, 50% more
hurricanes, and 50% more category 4 and 5 storms.