Thursday, April 19, 2007

More Perspective on Global Warming Wind Shear

Patrick Michaels, over at World Climate Report, offers further thoughts on the new study by Vecchi and Sodden showing that climate models add wind shear to weather systems, which weakens hurricanes. Michaels highlights an earlier paper published in 2004, which "reported that the model-projected vertical stability increases in the future would temper (but not totally cancel out) the increase in storm intensity by rising SST [Sea Surface Temperature]." A more stable atmosphere makes it less conducive for storm formation. So, all this nonsense about catastrophic weather developing in a warming world is just that, nonsense.

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