Hurricane intensity lowest in 10 years....
Will this make the mainstream press???
EIGHT TROPICAL STORMS FORMED IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN DURING
SEPTEMBER...TYING 2002 FOR THE RECORD OF THE MOST FORMATIONS DURING
THE MONTH. THREE OF THE STORMS BECAME HURRICANES...BUT ONLY
ONE OF THESE BECAME A MAJOR HURRICANE. ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF
TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES WAS ABOVE AVERAGE FOR SEPTEMBER...
MOST OF THESE SYSTEMS WERE RELATIVELY SHORT-LIVED. AS A RESULT...
THE ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY (ACE) INDEX...A MEASURE OF THE
COMBINED STRENGTH AND DURATION OF NAMED STORMS AND HURRICANES...WAS
BELOW AVERAGE AND WAS THE LOWEST TOTAL OBSERVED IN THE ATLANTIC
BASIN SINCE 1997.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:47 AM
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And yet, the Arctic is changing as we watch. Within the decade.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007092625668.html
Uh huh. Read your history books. There have been many occasions over the past 200 years that the Northwest passage has been ice-free. Perhaps your recall Hudson? Baffin? Frobisher? Franklin? Must of their discoveries would not have been possible without the recession of the ice sheets from the passage. Heck, the first passage through the passage was conducted in 1960 by the St. Roch out of Vancouver. I wonder how they did that if the passage wasn't ice-free.
Keep in mind they didn't even have satellite views of the Arctic until '79. "Lowest levels of ice in Artic EVER" just means since 1979. Even if you talk to Inuit (who do not migrate over the entire Arctic by the way, so they can only speak to their local conditions), living memory only stretches back to the 30's. They don't know what it was like before then except through oral traditions.
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