Despite the fact that he’s “given up on climate writing” thanks to the bizarre treatment he got writing at Nate Silver’s “538”, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has done one very important climate thing today – he’s updated his now famous graph of hurricane drought.
#Matthew now a Cat.2 hurricane
So incredible streak of no-US major hurricanes (luckily) continues
4,001 days and counting
Updated graphic: pic.twitter.com/HwvWLlKJ7X— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) October 7, 2016
Earlier today, I got one of those pleading “boo-hoo, shame on you” style comments from the irascible David Appell regarding the hurricane drought saying I’m too scared to discuss what he sees as an invalidation of this graph and record of 4001 days, he wrote:
Funny, that David, in his odd way of thinking. For the record, I don’t have any problems discussing science with Mr. Appell, I only have problems with you when you are being a jerk about differences of opinion. That’s why his comments get held for moderation, because he has a history of behaving in a less than cordial manner here and elsewhere. Despite that, his comments do get published when they meet site policy.
Regarding his link to the paper, here it is:
“The Arbitrary Definition of the Current Major Hurricane Landfall Drought,” Robert E Hart et al, BAMS (2015),
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00185.1
I read it this afternoon, and boy, what an effort to make this hurricane drought go away. It’s worthy of the statistical machinations we saw in Marcott et al and Karl et al to make “the pause” disappear.
We live in interesting times.
It’s interesting to observe how the discussion about weather still is going on despite the fact that the UN IPCC policy got nothing to do with weather, CO2 or climate. “Carbon-Tax” in all forms around the globe, is only about money.
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