If Hurricane Intensity Indicates Global Waming, It Must Be Cooling.

From the IPCC we know:

Based on a range of models, it is likely that future tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense, with larger peak wind speeds and more heavy precipitation associated with ongoing increases of tropical SSTs. There is less confidence in projections of a global decrease in numbers of tropical cyclones. The apparent increase in the proportion of very intense storms since 1970 in some regions is much larger than simulated by current models for that period. {9.5, 10.3, 3.8}

But if we look at the cyclone data for 2007 we see the following:

Seems like the cumulative impact of cyclones is fizzling, so doesn't that mean that Global Warming has reversed course into Global Cooling by this measure? *

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* This is a rhetorical question meant to illustrate the stupidity of the underlying premise that Global Warming increases hurricane intensity.

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One year of below average hurrican activity proves nothing. Normal variation about the mean.  Aren't you the same guy who criticized the alarmists for reading too much into Katrina/Rita and the 2005 hurricane season?

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What the heck does ACE mean?

Answer thanks to google, in case anyone else didn't pick up on it: "Accumulated cyclone energy ."

Apparently 2002 and 2006 were also below the median (over 1950-2007). 2005 is #1, 2004 is #4, 2003 is #9, 2000 and 2001 are above the mean.

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world -- Tennyson

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