The Sydney Moonbat Herald will print any old rubbish as long as it supports their conclusion (formed years ago) that global warming is real and dangerous. In this case, they publish an article from AFP that fits the bill perfectly:
Tropical storms to be more intense
Tropical cyclones may become less frequent this century but pack a stronger punch as a result of global warming, a new study says.
The study published on Sunday is an overview of work into one of the scariest yet also one of the least understood aspects of climate change.
Known in the Atlantic as hurricanes and in eastern Asia as typhoons, tropical storms are driven by the raw fuel of warm seas, which raises the question about what may happen when temperatures rise as a result of greenhouse gases.
Tom Knutson and colleagues from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) looked at peer-reviewed investigations that have appeared over the past four years, when the issue began to hit the headlines.
Their benchmark for warming is the “A1B” scenario, a middle-of-the-road computer simulation which predicts a global average surface temperature rise of 2.8 degrees Celsius over the 21st century.
“It is likely that the global frequency of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged,” says the paper.
But storms could have more powerful winds – an increase of between two and 11 per cent – and dump more water, it warns.
The SMH will love this of course, since it bolsters the IPCC’s position on hurricanes and cyclones. But it’s all based on model projections and speculation: may, likely, could. We already have 30 years of low-level warming since the late 1970s to use as an empirical test of change in cyclone energy, and what do we find (click for full size):
No change…
And that’s the point – we now regard the projections of climate models as being more “truthful” than empirical observations.
Read it here.
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