Today is a very special day—**it's the end of freaking Hurricane Season!**
Only nine storms through October (the November stats haven't been released yet by the National Hurricane Center [1]) and of those, five were hurricanes, and none hit the United States (and only one, Hurricane Ernesto, seems to have done any damage whatsoever).
All in all, it's been a quiet hurricane season, for which I am thankful.
And in other hurricane related news:
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has just released two updated statements on the state of science on tropical cyclones and climate change. The statements have been released today through the Instituto Meteorologico Nacional [2], San Jose, Costa Rica. Anyone referencing this post or the statements, please do acknowledge them as the source.
We are pleased that the WMO statements are 100% consistent with the views on this subject that we have been sharing over the past few years. In particular, it should now be completely unambiguous that those who are representing hurricane impacts as being related to greenhouse gas emissions, without acknowledging that this is not a widely shared perspective among scientists, are either cherry picking the relevant science or misrepresenting the community consensus. As a matter of policy, those interested in addressing the impacts of tropical cyclones on people and economies necessarily should be focued on adaptive responses. We have obviously made this case for a while, now there is no ambiguity.
Via Flares Into Darkness: Yet Another Really Great Blog [3], “WMO Consensus Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change [4]” (emphasis added)
[3] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2006/11/prometheus-wmo-consensus-statement-
[4] http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/00