Al Gore and the Environmentalist Gang have claimed that Global Warming has resulted in more hurricanes that will be larger in intensity but "where oh where have the storms gone?"
Much of Al Gore's "Calamity Prediction" forecasting of more storms, shrinking glaciers and impending doom of the planet are illogical and alarmist says William Gray, Ph.D. an Atmospheric Science Professor at Colorado State University.
During the last 24 years, Dr. Gray has become known as the nation's most reliable forecaster of hurricanes and has long rallied against the theory that heat trapped gases generated by human activity are causing the earth to warm. Likewise Dr. Gray has said, "...the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic Coast has actually declined during the last 40 years."
Many of the alarmist predictions made by Al Gore in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" have been refuted by science according to James Taylor, Ph.D. who is a Sr. Fellow for Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.
Dr. Taylor says that Al Gore claimed that Global Warming has caused an expansion of African deserts however the September 16, 2002 issue of "New Scientist" reports that "...Africa's deserts are in spectacular retreat...making farming viable again in what were once the most arid places in Africa."
Former V.P. Gore has claimed that Greenland is in a rapid meltdown. According to Dr. Taylor, Al Gore is wrong again, "...in a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland with a small overall mass gain." In 2006, Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since 1910 Likewise according to Dr. Taylor the Atlantic Ice Sheet is not melting, in the Jan. 14, 2002 issue of "Nature" Magazine, "...Antarctica has actually been dramatically cooling for decades..." More recently, satellite measurements of the Atlantic Ice Sheet showed significant growth between 1992-2003 according to British Scientist's who reported in the British Journal of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A. According to the U.N. Climate Change Panel 2007 Report "...Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century."
The Hurricane Season in the United States runs from June-November and currently six weeks into the season the Atlantic basin is currently devoid of storms.
Where oh where have the fierce storms gone Mr. Gore ?
