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Alarmists like to claim that an unusually active tropical cyclone season is due to man-made CO2 warming, but it has more to do with natural oceanic cycles.
Open access notables It's always a special pleasure to note an article including Skeptical Science's founder John Cook in the author roster. Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy includes not only Cook as a collaborator but also a cast of other familiar authorities on human cognition in connection with climate science, in particlar how our mental equipment struggles with following a continuous thread of truth through a tangled knot of disconnected confusion in the form of misinformation. We're not necessarily very good thinkers in the best of circumstances. We often fail...
Https://youtu.be/G2kHk1mykoo Good tempering discussion of last week's breathless headlines about the "Collapse of the Gulf Stream". I get why reporters on deadlines use "Gulf Stream' as short hand for the unwieldy mouthful "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation", (AMOC) but it's lead to some confusion. Possible consequences of AMOC collapse are of course, dire, but clickbait headlines…
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/ On a single day in September 2020, Hurricane Sally approached the U.S. Gulf Coast as Hurricane Paulette crossed the Atlantic while Tropical Storms Teddy and Vicky moved off the African coast. AccuWeather is calling for another above average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021 — the sixth in a row. The forecasting service said Monday it expects the Atlantic to stir up 16 to 20 named storms this year. Of those, seven to 10 could become hurricanes, with three to five blossoming into major hurricanes packing winds topping 111 mph. You turn to WLRN for reporting you can trust and stories that m...