Mike
The growth of a hurricanes depends on positive feedback so it is easier
to stop them early. Once they are really going people are terrified of
legal liability and so do nothing.
Stephen
On 08/12/2012 01:19, Mike MacCracken wrote:
Hi John, Kelly, ad Armand--With respect to hurricane
Hi Stephen--While I agree it would be easier to get them early, the
challenge is that they can generate over a quite large area (Mercator maps
make the tropics look smaller than they really are) and so it almost seems
that limiting them (except perhaps in their later stages in the Gulf of
Mexico
Gene,
I share your sentiments entirely. Taking Sandy's $80 billion + with
concomitant personal agonies, add to that, from a few weeks later,
the tragic loss of more than 500 lives in the Phillipines, and
extrapolate into the future, we create an utterly devastating
picture.
Our problem is
Hi Stephen--Thanks for suggestion. I wonder, however, if one cools one spot,
they will just form somewhere else--tropical cyclones in the Pacific don't
seem to need the Sahara to be generating eddies to get them going.
And, actually, Mercator does shrink the tropics, and to have a feel for how
Russell and list:
Perhaps your comment was meant to wonder why we are being told of this three
years later by Andrew. In Andrew's defense, let me note several other factors:
a. This (Nov. 5, 2009) was just put up a few days ago by a Mr. Jim Lee.
b. Looking at this will lead you to two more
AND, he added: the modelling technology is not even up to doing this
adequately *despite what some aggressive proponents of geoengineering say*
.
Raymond made his comments on geoengineering during the QA after his talk.
The full text of his geoengineering remarks, which occur starting around
