Fewer hurricanes than expected in 2006.With global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. on the rampage, 2006 was supposed to be another year of brutal, killer hurricanes. As 2006 got started, the popular and usually sober weather forecasting weather forecasting Prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics and meteorology. Weather forecasting predicts atmospheric phenomena and changes on the Earth's surface caused by atmospheric conditions (snow and ice cover, storm tides, floods, service Accu-Weather predicted 15 to 17 named storms and said that the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. was "staring down the barrel of a gun" this hurricane season Hurricane season refers to a period in a year when hurricanes usually form. For more information see: Tropical cyclone#Times of formation. For a lists of past seasons, see:
The real inconvenient truth appears to be that predictions of catastrophic hurricanes driven by global warming have little basis in fact. With only 9 named storms, 2006 was a quiet year. Noted hurricane expert William Gray, who twice downgraded his own forecasts for this hurricane season, has pointed out in the past that hurricanes do not stem from global warming. In an interview with Discover magazine in September 2005, Gray, who heads the Tropical Meteorology Project The Tropical Meteorology Project is a research initiative at Colorado State University that studies weather patterns and systems in the tropics. It is best known for its annual predictions of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes expected to form each season in the North at Colorado State University Colorado State University, at Fort Collins; land-grant with state and federal support; chartered 1870, opened 1879 as an agricultural college, assumed present name in 1957. There is a veterinary teaching hospital, an agricultural campus, and a research campus. , said that that year's active season was due to changes in wind patterns that caused more storms to head toward the U.S. coast than usual. As far as human-caused global-warming theories go, Gray complained, "nearly all of my colleagues who have been around 40 or 50 years are skeptical as hell about this whole global-warming thing. But no one asks us." |
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