[…] Last year’s hurricane season spawned an unprecedented 28 tropical storms, of which 15 became hurricanes.
The season was the busiest Atlantic hurricane season since record keeping began in 1851 and seven of the 15 hurricanes were Category 3 or higher.
However, scientists were way off the mark in their forecasts for the 2005 hurricane season.
NOAA had predicted 12 to 15 tropical storms, of which it said seven to nine would be hurricanes. […]
The dire report from CBC.ca, Canada’s official state-run media, reported this however, regarding that same (scary man-made global warming told-ya-so —wink!) story:
Predictions of more storms than usual in 2005 were dead-on. Forecasters ran out of names for the tropical storms and hurricanes, having to dip into the Greek alphabet when the standard alphabetic list of 21 names was exhausted.
So now I’m confused.
On the other hand, the CTV.ca site also wrote:
A storm is assigned a name and is designated a tropical storm when winds reach 39 mph, it is assigned a name and is designated a tropical storm.
And if you don’t understand THAT, then you’re nuts.
Meanwhile a Reuters story being carried on CNN.com says this about the real underlying cause of man-made global warming, which is causing things such as all this —it’s George Bush, duh. And Canada’s stupid, stupid Conservative government. And the scientist reporters at Reuters inform us in their news story that:
Negotiators from 163 nations are meeting in Bonn for talks on ways to extend Kyoto beyond 2012 to help prevent what could be wrenching climate changes such as more heat waves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.
“Such as” those things and whatever else comes along, I presume.
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