Earth's Tropics Belt Expands
December 2nd, 2007 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer(AP) -- Earth's tropical belt seems to have expanded a couple hundred miles over the past quarter century, which could mean more arid weather for some already dry subtropical regions, new climate research shows.
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You may not care about it now, but its not just my children, but yours as well, will be the ones to bask in whats to come. Thanks for what you`ve given me dad!
No scientist has ever suggested that man is responsible for all the changes in the weather...
If it weren't so then every bank in the world would be rushing to build computer models of the equity exchanges, which are far less complex systems then the biosphere. But the banks don't bother, because their unbiased experts have already discovered it is a waste of money.
So climatologists, many with a vested career interest in finding evidence for AGW, splash out anecdotal claims in the form of press releases every few weeks, because that is all they have. The science to back up their claims is thin and full of contradictions and often so close to fraudulent that if they were a business they'd have the SEC on their backs.
Last year it was the 2007 hurricane season, it was going to be a killer, full of super cyclones driven by AGW. In fact, it was the calmest year since the 1970's. Climate model total failure. No one has a clue to what is forcing the climate, but everyone's got an opinion.
This summer it was the new Artic ice minimum world record. Of course, the record is only a few decades long and no one was touting the world record ice maximum that occurred in Antarctica this year. Wonder why southern hemisphere is cooling, thought it was suppose to be GLOBAL warming?
Now the tropical belts have widened and the climatologists have left their Occam's Razor at home. Could it be part of naturally occurring climate variation? Nope, must be evidence that lusty human greed is destroying the planet with poisonous CO2. Just ask Zbarlici, he knows. Americans are simply bad for the climate.
Perhaps before you hurl insults you should do some homework beyond wiki.
The accumulated cyclone energy index (ACE) from July to November was the lowest on record since 1977 and the 4th lowest in 50 years. Clever pointing to the mountain of data overload at wiki, all of which if condensed would reveal as much.
The number of named storms was only "slightly above average" according the National Hurricane Center but that's because with satellites they can now count storms that reach cyclonic strength far from land for only a few minutes, night or day. One can't compare modern satellite storm counts with ship and land based counts from 1985 back, because mini T-storms often went uncounted.
Moreover, the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory demands super ACE seasons because T-storms are the climatic mechanism by which heat is dispersed from the tropics towards the poles. Thus 2007 was suppose to spawn a swarm of killer hurricanes. More warming MUST lead to a higher ACE Index.
Not only was the 2007 T-season a flop for AGW theory's predictive value, but the accumulated cyclonic energy levels were at near record lows, which indicates Atlantic COOLING.
Go figure.
http://www.coaps....ropical/