Global Warming blamed for China's bad typhoons this year

[StormWarning1]

Looks like global warming has jumped from the Atlantic last year to the Pacific this year.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/1 ... pjlvn.html

[x-y-no]

Um ... well ... being global, it obviously isn't jumping from anywhere to anywhere.

But the same uncertainties in the data and the same issues regarding individual episodes (even of seasonal scale) apply in this case as in any other when it comes to attributing them to global warming. Thus, I don't think this statement is warranted. But neither is it warranted to entirely dismiss any such connection.

[StormWarning1]

The attention of the global warming crowd has jumped from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

[x-y-no]

The attention of the global warming crowd has jumped from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

All right. Whatever.

I see an article about what the Chinese ministers of meteorology and water resources had to say about the issue. It seems natural to me that these Chinese officials might just possibly have their attention primarily on events in their part of the world.

[Frank2]

Japan and the United States had the most landfalls the past two seasons, but now it's happening to China - and, don't forget Austrailia's severe tropical cyclone landfalls this past winter, so, no one is immune...

Frank

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Knowing what I do about Climate and statistics, the only way I can believe in GW impacting TCs, is if a Cat 5 makes landfall in say NYC, or Halifax. The historical evidence shows there is little doubt that said areas have be impacted by cat 3 storms, on rare occasion, and possibly even a cat 4 or two (in the past 400 years). Guess I just believe in the old adage:

"Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary proof."

[Aslkahuna]

Yes, China has had equally as bad seasons before. Also, an important thing to note. We are currently at 12 warned systems for WPAC which is still a bit below the average to date so the question is should we bLame THAT on GW too or just on random natural variations. .

Steve

[AussieMark]

1997 even at this point had more systems i.e

4 typhoons had max winds of 140 kts + by this point

there was another 4 typhoons also

and the season had 14 systems

[Jim Cantore]

If global warming continues and the Ice caps melt, there won't be Hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere for a while.

[Downdraft]

If global warming continues and the Ice caps melt, there won't be Hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere for a while.

If the ice caps melt hurricanes would be the least of our problems.

[bob rulz]

If global warming continues and the Ice caps melt, there won't be Hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere for a while.

??? How would there not be a hurricane?