Media loved her research showing increase in hurricane

[bluemingidiot]

intensity.

“Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She "found that the percent of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes had doubled.". “I was adopted by the environmental advocacy groups and the alarmists and I was treated like a rock star,” Curry recounts.  “Flown all over the place to meet with politicians.”

She eventually realized that her critics were right.  “Part of it was bad data. Part of it is natural climate variability.”

[Melissa]

Nature always wins...

[bluemingidiot]

"Climate change makes hurricanes more dangerous Climate change is making flooding and wind damage from hurricanes more common in the U.S. That means dangerous storms are getting more frequent, even though the total number of storms isn't changing."  NPR

They didn't get the memo.

[Woodpecker]

Praying Hurricane Lee doesn’t come our way, as they say it might! Hurricane Sandy, when it reached us here was called a “ tropical storm “. They are still rebuilding in some areas out east.

I remember vividly as the wind whipped and the rain poured. We were out of power for 5-6 days, flooded all over our village. I’m petrified of Hurricanes! Being we are a peninsula and surroundeded by water, makes for little dry land in storms.

[countrymom22]

Looks like Lee is going to miss you Woodpecker, though Montauk may get some brief rain bands. Sandy was a beast! We were without power for 12 days and the schools were closed for 2 weeks. Hope we never see another storm like it!