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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Land Shark who wrote (106509)9/3/2007 6:44:14 PM
From: Peter O'Brien  Read Replies (3) of 173976
 
The two researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected three major intervals of intense hurricane strikes: one between 5,400 and 3,600 calendar years before present (yr BP, where present is AD 1950), one between 2,500 and 1,000 yr BP, and one after 250 yr BP. They also report that coral-based sea surface temperature (SST) data from Puerto Rico "indicate that mean annual Little Ice Age (250-135 yr BP or AD 1700-1815) SSTs were 2-3°C cooler than they are now," and they say that "an analysis of Caribbean hurricanes documented in Spanish archives indicates that 1766-1780 was one of the most active intervals in the period between 1500 and 1800 (Garcia-Herrera et al., 2005), when tree-ring-based reconstructions indicate a negative (cooler) phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (Gray et al., 2004)."

Irrelevant? Hardly....

The point is that many factors contribute to increased
hurricane activity. 50 years of data (as described
by the original post to which I responded) is too short
to infer a TREND.

Actually, your final criticism of my post is
really pretty funny.
You say my post is "irrelevant", but it was a "nice try"!
If my post was truly "irrelevant", wouldn't it be a *bad* try?
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