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Originally Posted by Kyobanim
Not that I agree with him or anything but one of the ingredients for a hurricane to form and strengthen is hot water. The water in the gulf is warmer than usual this year.
Could be that this is an unusually warm year for water or there's something to the global warming theories. I tend to believe the global warming theory. But the Kyoto treaty wouldn't have had any effect on the outcome of the current situation. That's long term. Kinda like closing the gate after the horse got out.
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The warming of ocean waters is a cyclical trend. They were warmer in the 50s and 60s, leading to more and worse hurricanes. They cooled in the 70s and 80s, leading to a decrease in hurricane frequency and intensity. They were warmer starting in the mid-1990s to today, resulting in more frequent and intense hurricanes. The pattern is inconsistent with a theory of progressive warming, and certainly with any theory that roots such warming in human activity.
I notice that many of the same people on the global warming bandwagon today were on the new Ice Age bandwagon in the 1970s, when there was a cooling trend in places.
As for RFK, Jr., he is well-known as a polemicist and a hack.