Was 2006 a quiet year for Hurricanes?
sduford on Apr 01 2007 at 8:36 pm | Filed under: Extreme Weather, Global Warming
Many Climate Change deniers point out the fact that 2006 ended-up being a very quiet year for Atlantic hurricanes. While that is true and was probably due to some local conditions, the fact is that globally 2006 was a record year for hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. The Pacific ocean generated an unheard of number of strong storms last year. And in the last few months, there has been many category 4 and 5 storms. Somehow the western media doesn’t cover such events at all, even though some countries like Madagascar have been devastated.
If you don’t believe me, check out Chris Mooney’s blog.
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Hi Sduford,
I quoted this post on my blog (without checking chris mooneys blog) and one of my readers has asked me where I got my information from. I had linked to this site but that might have been missed, on inspection I can’t find chris talking about this. I wouldn’t mind if i could find information on tropical cyclone numbers but I can’t. If you could direct me to the article where chris talked about this, or a website witht the relavent details I would greatly appreciate it.
Hi Calvin, I wasn’t referring to any particular posts of Chris’s, but if you go over his blog, you will see all the entries he has about recent storms in 2007. The following post resumes 2006: http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/01/21_cats_45.php#more
He counts 20 Cat 4 or 5 storms in 2006.