Hurricane Season 2010

Summary:

A few questions

Hurricane Season 2010

Laura (guest) 27 May 2010 17:25

I know I must sound like a broken record with all of my natural disaster questions, but it seems like when one fear subsides, BOOM!! something else comes up tp make me wonder about 2012.

I found this article on Foxnews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/27/active-hurricane-seasons-record-year-say-scientists/

They are saying it could be because of a La Nina. When was the last time we had one of those? Also, didn't they predict an overly active season the past few years, after the New Orleans incident, and they weren't that bad? It worried me because I live on the East Coast and my husband works for the power company. It makes me think about 2012 because people have said that natural disasters will increase. Sorry, to ramble…

Thanks!!!!

Re: Hurricane Season 2010

Marko S 27 May 2010 17:43

Yeah, the severity and frequency of all kinds of storms is actually predicted to be increasing in the future, but this has NOTHING to do with 2012 doomsday flim-flam.

This is because of the ongoing, human-induced climate change, which IS a very real concern. But because we are actually doing this ourselves, then we can also provide solutions for it.

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Re: Hurricane Season 2010

UndeadxNurse 27 May 2010 18:13

The Earth's weather is fragile, now, stay with me here..
If you were to raise the global temperature only one degrees, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and things of the sort would get much worse, the global temperature of the Earth actually fluctuates and in recent years the temperature has risen, thus the storms will be a little worse.

In the past, our climate has always restabilized itself and it will do so again sometime in the future, but I really wouldn't say that it's anything to worry about and to be quite honest, the only attention that I ever give the "global warming" is not using more electric and such than I need because even though I'm really not worried about it, I still want to help make this big ball that we call home a bit more clean.

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Re: Hurricane Season 2010

seen2009 27 May 2010 19:03

They are saying it could be because of a La Nina.

I'm not an expert, but this seems to be a contradictory in terms.

El-Nino is typically defined as an unusually temperature increase for something like 3 months and explained to be a result of a disruption in how cooler water warms and comes to the surface resulting in ocean temperatures into heating up.

La-Nina typically follows El-Nino, but it holds the opposite effect.

It was probably a typo, but it certainly seems strange to me.

For the purposes of encouraging looking at both sides of the man-made climate change issue, this may offer an opposing viewpoint, but I'm not entirely sure of the reliability of the source http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php