effects of climate change is a powerful hurricane is now sitting off the coast of florid florida. more extreme weather events like hurricane dorian. bigger and bigger hurricanes more frequently, that s one of the things scientists are worried about. you know what? there s actually a scientists who went and counted every hurricane that s ever been seen by satellite since satellites gave us global coverage in the year 1970. you plot up worldwide power of hurricanes against the surface temperature of the planet, there is no relationship whatsoever. laura: what when they say with that kind of facial expression, super storms charging the planet like you need the music to go along. they are confusing weather was climate. how come nobody is talking about the fact that we come until 1917, we went almost 12 complete years without a major hurricane strike in this country. that s twice as long as the
ed we are seeing firsthand the effects of climate change as a powerful hurricane is now sitting offf the coast of florida. more extreme weather events like hurricane dorian. bigger and bigger hurricanes more frequently, that s one of the things scientists are worried about. you know what? there s actually a scientists who went and counted every hurricane that s ever been seen by satellite since satellites gave us global coverage in the year 1970. you plot up worldwide power of hurricanes against the surface temperature of the planet, there is no relationship whatsoever. laura: but, what when they say with that kind of facial expression, super storms charging the planet like you need the music to go along.the . they are confusing weather was climate. how come nobody is talking about the fact that we, until 1917, we went almost 12 complete years without a major hurricane strike in this country. that s twice as long as the
shouldn t let our guard down because as history has shown, there could be another storm that comes right after this storm. talk to us about the dangers of that. well, i almost don t even want to mention it. but there have been a number of years just in the past 100 where in our region, we ve had more than one hurricane strike in the same season. and so it is a fact that we have to get through this storm. we have to begin our recovery efforts and do what we have to do to keep people safe and start to build things back. but we also have to keep our eye on the tropics because there are more storms out there. we re just over halfway through the season, and we don t even want to think about that. but that has been a reality. and floyd i mentioned earlier, we had a hurricane that came just before that. it was dennis. with fran in 96, we had bertha just a few weeks before that. and in 1955, north carolina was hit by three hurricanes within six weeks. so there are some examples like that, b
in the history books is what s going to make florence stand out as a memorable storm. so, jay, you say that after florence has passed, that we shouldn t let our guard down because as history has shown, there could be another storm that comes right after this storm. talk to us about the dangers of that. well, i almost don t even want to mention it. but there have been a number of years just in the past 100 where in our region, we ve had more than one hurricane strike in the same season. and so it is a fact that we have to get through this storm. we have to begin our recovery efforts and do what we have to do to keep people safe and start to build things back. but we also have to keep our eye on the tropics because there are more storms out there. we re just over halfway through the season, and we don t even want to think about that. but that has been a reality. and floyd i mentioned earlier, we had a hurricane that came just before that. it was dennis. with fran in 96, we had berth
are somewhat uncertain prior to the advent of satellites in the 1970s. so based on the records that we do have, we have to rely on incomplete records but what we do have, we tend to see hurricane activity remaining relatively stable. we have ups and downs based on cycles. and in the recent years, it s actually been 12 years since hurricane wilma though asked me to hurricane hit the united states. and while we have hurricane sandy in between, it it has been almost 12 years since we had a major hurricane strike on the united states coastline. after hurricane katrina and rita and wilma in 2005, the same questions were being asked. the question was, is climate change the cause of uptake in activity? and our best researchers in the field sat down, started working with computer models and after several years of very contentious debate, behind