tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post112735437704587319..comments2023-11-19T00:42:48.156-08:00Comments on balancing life: Everything Scientific Vol. IISunilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1128616420390045062005-10-06T09:33:00.000-07:002005-10-06T09:33:00.000-07:00More on GW and hurricanes from Kerry Emanuel at ww...More on GW and hurricanes from Kerry Emanuel at www.oupblog.typepad.com<BR/><BR/>from Q&A:<BR/>1.) Q: Is global warming causing more hurricanes?<BR/><BR/>A: No. The global, annual frequency of tropical cyclones (the generic, meteorological term for the storm that is called a tropical storm or hurricane in the Atlantic region) is about 90, plus or minus 10. There is no indication whatsoever of a long-term trend in this number.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1128190913221989082005-10-01T11:21:00.000-07:002005-10-01T11:21:00.000-07:00Srikanth......i'm no expert on global warming....s...Srikanth......i'm no expert on global warming....so i dont know. But i do know that madras is a gawdawfulplace with lots of summer, and a hot winter, and am glad my college days there are over.<BR/><BR/>Karthik...yes, you're right. But the evidence just seems to constantly mount. Even with the hurricane cycles......the present cycle (ref. paper) has had more level 3 and above hurricanes than earlier. And hurricanes in the gulf coast are directly formed due to the temperature of the oceans...<BR/><BR/>Madhu...thanks. There'll be one of these once every fortnight.Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1128138433062752042005-09-30T20:47:00.000-07:002005-09-30T20:47:00.000-07:00Excellent post Sunil. Looking forward more and mor...Excellent post Sunil. Looking forward more and more posts like this from you.pippala leafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07100671033525977577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127793550998311322005-09-26T20:59:00.000-07:002005-09-26T20:59:00.000-07:00Very nice post. Thanks.On the hurricane front, I'v...Very nice post. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>On the hurricane front, I've read that this goes in cycles - we had a "quiet" period from the late 60's (or maybe it was the 70's) to the early 90's. Now is the start of an active period. <BR/><BR/>The link to global warming is very hard to prove to sceptics - anything you say, there will always be evidence to the contrary. That's the nature of the game when it comes to weather, and I guess the trend hasn't solidified enough to be conclusive enough, although it certainly points in that direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127729769266581762005-09-26T03:16:00.000-07:002005-09-26T03:16:00.000-07:00I am not sure if it is because of global warming, ...I am not sure if it is because of global warming, but have been noting that for a few years, the climate of Madras is getting cooler in winter and hotter (God help!) in summer. In addition, the peak summer is shifting to June/July from May (when comes the <I>Agni Nakshatram</I>).<BR/><BR/>I also remember reading a few years back about the El Nino Effect. Wonder if this is related to global warming as well...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127653639494493582005-09-25T06:07:00.000-07:002005-09-25T06:07:00.000-07:00I am glad that you gave a fitting reply to that AV...I am glad that you gave a fitting reply to that AV person :)Riothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04901490748436281430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127578781090223452005-09-24T09:19:00.000-07:002005-09-24T09:19:00.000-07:00A more detailed response to comments:Abi, Vishnu.....A more detailed response to comments:<BR/><BR/>Abi, Vishnu...I will further simplify some of the more biological posts in the future :-)<BR/><BR/>Haddock.....as much as i wish its success....Kyoto seems to be a failure :-(<BR/><BR/>Gawker....you might be right about smoking...but anything to help. As far as global warming goes....i don't think we can blame everything yet to warming...and too many different things seem to contribute to it....but, it's slowly having an effect for sure.<BR/><BR/>Arzan...yes, there are many reasons. But blacks and hispanics continue to remain very underrepresented. The "colored" folks succeeding seem to be only immigrants, who come from different education systems, and have a strong desire to succeed in a foreigh land.<BR/><BR/>Minal, Shoe fiend, thanks. Rahul....NG is by far a better fuel.....lets see how far that effort goes.<BR/><BR/>Av......still wondering who the leftists are, whom you're talking about. They have nothing to do with this post, or the references cited (you can read the actual science there, not statements).Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127525651862123042005-09-23T18:34:00.000-07:002005-09-23T18:34:00.000-07:00May be Michael......but the authors were very care...May be Michael......but the authors were very careful to state their caveats. I'm no expert in atmospheric sciences, but i had that paper whetted by a friend of mine, who studies tropical storms. And this paper cites a number of equally good references as well.<BR/><BR/>I know economists love to trash any suggestion of global climate change, but you've been a researcher yourself........and like most, have taken pride in careful research, and careful interpretations of data. So, it might be a little presumptous to suggest that the data here was massaged....:-)Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127506053637837882005-09-23T13:07:00.000-07:002005-09-23T13:07:00.000-07:00Hi SunilInteresting post.I have a comment about sc...Hi Sunil<BR/>Interesting post.<BR/>I have a comment about science and politics. Although we hope they are separate, they seldom are. Scientists get their funding from the federal government in general and so they see it in their interest to hype the "gloom and doom."<BR/><BR/>I can remember reading a host of "gloom and doom" type stories from the 70's and 80's. The only one that actually happened much like the scare mongers predicted was the AIDS epidemic. But others like the fear that we would run out of oil by 2000 and such things never happened (of course, if you wait long enough, some prediction will eventually happen). <BR/><BR/>Global warming may in fact be happening, but the rate of change is open to reasonable debate. The problem is that many of the people who want to study this problem are likely to shade the facts towards the negative because they'll get more funding that way. It is an issue. <BR/><BR/>The graph looks somewhat suspicious. I'm curious what the level of type 4 hurricanes was like in the 1960's.Michael Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05034249281790021336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127495553345370782005-09-23T10:12:00.000-07:002005-09-23T10:12:00.000-07:00thank you all for your comments. Just stopped by b...thank you all for your comments. Just stopped by briefly to see what was going on :-)<BR/><BR/>AV....please DO see the sources cited. This post is called everything scientific for a reason. IT does NOT quote newspaper reports, other bloggers or random opinions. It finds SCIENTIFIC articles (this was from the journal Science, one of the world's premier science journals), and was a scientific paper, not an op-ed without references. There are about 40 references cited. Read all of them.<BR/><BR/>This is science. IT has nothing to do with politics. Politics can stay where it should be....far away from science. Science has only one agenda....to find out the facts, and lay it out. Not create propaganda. That is for politics.Sunilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776658071546232685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127491759388316452005-09-23T09:09:00.000-07:002005-09-23T09:09:00.000-07:00sunil - very interesting post! really enjoyed itum...sunil - very interesting post! really enjoyed it<BR/><BR/>umm and av who exactly is behind the leftist vested interests who have an anti human agenda? aliens?The ramblings of a shoe fiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193183543700543479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127478114103621592005-09-23T05:21:00.000-07:002005-09-23T05:21:00.000-07:00av before you go off on an ideological tangent, pl...av before you go off on an ideological tangent, please read through Sunil's article where all he claims is that global warming might beleading to increased hurricane intensity. He does not claim that it's being caused by humans or fossil fuels.<BR/><BR/>But regardless of whether Sunil implies it or not, I will say this. Volcanoes have existed through all time, but we have seen the earth's temperature rise only since the late 19th century, a time which corresponded with the industrial revolution and the usage of fossil fuels.<BR/><BR/>Just pooh poohing global warming because of your ideological tilt is as silly as worshipping a stone deity because you believe in a particular religion.gawkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081710140055676484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127470775301322932005-09-23T03:19:00.000-07:002005-09-23T03:19:00.000-07:00Great work Sunil!! I really like the idea of Every...Great work Sunil!! I really like the idea of Everything Scientific.<BR/><BR/>AV, I am part of the Natural Gas Systems group at a university - a group aimed at developing systems applications for the NG industry, a group rooting for NG based gas plants - and we recognize the implications of Global Warming. Science and politics do not make good bedfellows.<BR/><BR/>RahulIyer the Greathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489989806800962955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127457304939870502005-09-22T23:35:00.000-07:002005-09-22T23:35:00.000-07:00I would just like to say that your science about G...I would just like to say that your science about Global Warming is all wrong. <BR/><BR/>Global warming is not happening, it is only a false propaganda floated by some leftist vested interests. <BR/><BR/>Just to give you an example, a volcano may release more CO2 in the air than a million automobiles in a year. So to blame human factors for global warming is an outright act of anti-human agenda. <BR/><BR/>It is only the leftist who are anti-industrialization who are behind this muck racking on Global Warming. <BR/><BR/>Please check your facts....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127453731719964962005-09-22T22:35:00.000-07:002005-09-22T22:35:00.000-07:00Sunil,Looking forward to more volumes of your "Eve...Sunil,<BR/>Looking forward to more volumes of your "Everything Scientific"Minalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08556930930046840091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127424023118657162005-09-22T14:20:00.000-07:002005-09-22T14:20:00.000-07:00SunilNice post. I would tend to disagree a bit on ...Sunil<BR/><BR/>Nice post. I would tend to disagree a bit on the last point about white people. Indians as "colored" people are found in the top echelons of all science universities and research institutes. A lot of the best doctors in the US are those of color. <BR/><BR/>Thus the segregation and racial issues are happening at the lower level. I feel it has more to do with opportunities or lack thereof, for African Americans, at the school and high school level which does not provide them with the foundation to break into the college and university level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127402603413020682005-09-22T08:23:00.000-07:002005-09-22T08:23:00.000-07:00Nice one Sunil! But as Abi said, me too not follow...Nice one Sunil! But as Abi said, me too not follow the bio! About the global warming thingie, I had read sometime ago that glaciers such as Gangotri are rapidly melting, and as a result, water levels will rise in rivers in India, and then fall, eventually drying them up. That article (cannot find it now) said that the rivers may dry up in a hundred years from now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127396294568913482005-09-22T06:38:00.000-07:002005-09-22T06:38:00.000-07:00Nice roundup btw, and a great concept.Nice roundup btw, and a great concept.gawkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081710140055676484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127396221418976272005-09-22T06:37:00.000-07:002005-09-22T06:37:00.000-07:00The nicotine thingie wont work and this is why : M...The nicotine thingie wont work and this is why : Most smokers I know, and even me too when I smoked, dont smoke because we crave a smoke, we smoke because it's time to smoke. Or because someone else in the vicinity is smoking. Nicotine only comes into the picture when you are trying to quit, you havent smoked for a long time and are feeling the pangs.<BR/><BR/>As for global warming, the movie "Day after tomorrow" doesnt seem so far fetched now does it? Bush and the forces of darkness wont really take global warming seriously till you give em numbers : which are $200 billion Katrina cost and $5.00 gas cost. Otherwise to the unscientific republican idiots, all global warming meant was more space to live in the Arctic and nice n toasty climates. Nincompoops.gawkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081710140055676484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212356.post-1127372418827999682005-09-22T00:00:00.000-07:002005-09-22T00:00:00.000-07:00Hi Sunil, Very nice post. The bio-related stuff is...Hi Sunil, <BR/><BR/>Very nice post. The bio-related stuff is a little too technical, but I found that I could still get something out of this post, thanks to your lucid writing. <BR/><BR/>Cheers!Abihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.com