Researchers have published four new papers this year showing that both tropical cyclone activity and intensity have declined over the past decades.
The findings mean atmospheric scientists and policymakers will need to reassess positions on climate change and tropical storms.
Last year’s 2017 hurricane season was an active one and caused a great deal of damage along the US southeast coastline.
Global warming alarmists moved quickly to blame it on man-made CO2, which they say causes the planet to warm up and thus makes tropical cyclones more frequent and ferocious.
Yet an objective analysis of the recorded data shows this is not the case at all, and that the opposite appears to be occurring.
Hurricane “landfall drought”
For example, new scientific results of an analysis authored by Ryan Truchelut and Erica Staehling in the journal Geophysical Research Letters tell us that the 11 years before 2017, there was “an extended period” of continental U.S. hurricanes not making landfall that is now called the “landfall drought.”
During this period, no major (Category 3 or higher) hurricanes made landfall from 2006 through 2016, an unprecedented event since systematic observations began.
Activity over 40% below average
Moreover, the two authors used accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) data to investigate variability and trends in landfall activity.
Their findings: The hurricane landfall drought years between 2006 and 2016 recorded an average value of total annual ACE [accumulated cyclone energy] over the U.S. that was less than 60% of the 1900–2017 average.
The data also revealed a statistically significant downward trend since 1950, with the percentage of total Atlantic ACE expended over the continental U.S. at a series minimum during the recent drought period.
US landfalling hurricanes downward trend since 1900
Another just-released scientific study by Klotzbach et al., 2018 tells us that since 1900, neither the continental U.S.-landfalling hurricane frequency nor intensity shows significant trends (including the devastating 2017 season).
Charts above show that continental US hurricane activity has been decreasing since 1900 (despite atmospheric CO2 and global temperature rising). Source: Klotzbach et al, 2018.
Alarmists contradicted: Warming leads to FEWER storms!
A third scientific publication authored by Zhang et al., 2018 also appearing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that the mean frequency of western North Pacific (WNP) tropical cyclones was about 18% lower over the 1997–2014 period compared to the 1980–1996 period.
The reason, the authors found, was in part connected to “enhanced sea surface temperature (SST) warming in the North Atlantic”!
“No significant correlation” between cyclones and temperature
Finally, a fourth scientific publication by Zhao et al., 2018 looked at the relationship between increasing tropical cyclone activity and increasing sea surface temperatures.
Three previous studies by Liu and Chan 2013, Lin and Chan 2015, and Zhao and Wang 2016 showed that there had been a significant decrease of tropical cyclone frequency over the Western North Pacific basin since 1998.
Western North Pacific cyclone frequency declining!
According to Zhao, citing Chan 2006 and Yeh et al. 2010, observational analyses pointed out that there is no significant correlation between tropical cyclone frequency and sea surface temperatures] over the Western North Pacific basin.
Moreover, the chart above makes it clear that tropical cyclone frequency in the Western North Pacific basin has been declining.
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After Hurricane Katrina in 2005 they were predicting that Hurricanes would be worst then this and althpugh we had Harvey and Irma last year it was Not due to Global Warming/Climate Change its a cycle they go through like after Hurricane Sandy they made the usial idiotic blaming on Global Warming/Climate Change. Hurricane Camile back in 1969 dumped 27 inches of rain in Virginia and it was not because of Global Warming/Climate Change and Al Bore was still a unheard of little microbe then
It is strange that the climate change alarmist were predicting more cyclones. I guess that is part of their pattern to make many horrible predictions to push their draconian agenda. The reason it is strange is early in the global warming movement they predicted fewer cyclones and hurricane, but those that we did have where supposed to stronger. Their past theory states that hurricanes are caused by the temperature difference between the poles and the tropical regions. Since global warming warms the poles faster, the temperature difference is less and we can expect fewer such storms. Their prediction came true though I’m doubt it was because their theory was correct. As far as stronger storms, if this is happening at all it is at a very low level.