Extreme Weather Events

So much has been blamed on global warming, from Hurricane Katrina to the Asian tsunami. So many ludicrous claims have been made in this area, it is hard to know where to begin debunking it all. In the global cooling scare of the 1970s, all the same extreme weather events were blamed on the world getting colder. Here we go again.

Below are a few links to get started. We would also refer readers to some excellent books:

“Is There a Basis for Global Warming Alarm?” By Richard Lindzen. Yale Center for the Study of Globalization – Oct 2005
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Al Gore asked to temper his alarm
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Atlantic Hurricane Frequency
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Sea level rise
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“Unstoppable Global Warming” - S. Fred Singer & Dennis T. Avery
“Meltdown” – Patrick J. Michaels
Stanley Changnon and David Changnon, “Long-term Fluctuations in Thunderstorm Activity in the United States,” Climate Change 50 (2001): 489-503
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S. A. Changnon and D. Changnon, “Long-Term Fluctuations in Hail Incidences in the United States,” Journal Climate 13 (2000): 658-64
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T. P. Grazulis, Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991/A Chronology and Analysis of Events (St. Johnsbury, VT: Environmental Films, 1993);
H. E. Brooks and C. A. Sowell, “Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1890-1999,” Weather and Forecasting 16 (2001): 168-76
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M. Khandekar, “Comment on [UN World Meteorological Organization] Statement on Extreme Weather Events,” EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 84 (2002): 428
Khandekar, “Comment on [UN World Meteorological Organization] Statement,” 428
W. Gray et al., “Extended Range Forecast of Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Activity and U.S. Landfalling Strike Probability for 2004,” Coorado State University, December 2003 (26 September 2005)
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J. B. Elsner et al., “Spatial Variations in Major U.S. Hurricane Activity: Statistics and a Physical Mechanism,” Journal of Climate 13 (2000): 2293-305
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J. Nott and M. Hayne, “High Frequency of Super-Cyclones along the Great Barrier Reef over the Past 5,000 Years,” Nature 413 (2001): 508-12
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K. Zhang et al., “Twentieth-Century Storm Activity along the U.S. East Coast,” Journal of Climate 13 (2000): 1748-761
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M. E. Hirsch at al., “An East Coast Winter Storm Climatology,” Journal of Climate 14 (2001): 882-99
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W. Bijl et al., “Changing Storminess? An Analysis of Long-Term Sea Level Data Sets,” Climate Research 11 (1999): 161-72
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