#ScienceTalk #MuhammadIttefaq #storms #hurricanes #category6 #SaffirSimpsonScale #NOAA
dr. Jeff Masterrs, hurricane scientist, on the (extreme) winds of #climate #change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89AAsMVSdw
#ClimateChange #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather
"Researchers James P. Kossin and Michael F. Wehner, among others, have proposed adding a “#Category6” tier to the Saffir–Simpson #HurricaneWindScale, which currently tops out at Category 5.
Their rationale: Current oceanic and atmospheric conditions allow storms to grow stronger, and the current scale’s top level has no upper limit, potentially under-communicating the risk of extreme hurricanes like Melissa."
@EnthusiasticTechie Last I heard Category 6 had been proposed but not officially adopted.
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems unfathomably foolish that scientists would make a measurement scale that just stops incrementing as the thing being measured exceeds its original expectation.
Would we have hot temperatures stop at a couple hundred degrees (C or F)? Long distance measures that level off at 50 miles (or km)? It seems pure crazy.
Not only does it mess up proportionality, making many or most formula equations weird and unworkable, but here's the real thing bugging me:
We want people to know the climate problem is getting worse, so they'll do something. How can we do that if folks can keep saying "It's never worse than Cat 5" even as Cat 5 gets worse?
We already have the problem that instead of saying words like "really bad", we say "2 degrees". As if that would raise an eyebrow, much less an alarm. Do we really need more underwhelming terminology?
So why is this even a question? Did the people responsible take a class in Bad Labeling when they should have been in a class on Extrapolation? Why is extrapolation not automatic? I'm at a loss.
Just call it Cat 6 like the measure was always there and just never had a storm to match.
And start planning to see Cat 7, probably sooner than anyone expects.
#climate #terminology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #weather #measurement #hurricane #storms #Category5 #Category6
A shopping receipt from the local hardware store listing:
Couple of Shovels
Bulk Pack of Duct Tape
Couple Large Tarps
50’ of Heavy Rope
Dozen Concrete Blocks
Machete and/or Chainsaw
Couple of Gas Cans
Is not suspicious if you live in Florida - welcome to hurricane season!
#Scientists Propose New #Category6 for Stronger #Hurricanes Linked to #ClimateChange
https://www.ecowatch.com/hurricane-category-6-climate-change-science.html
Weather guru Jeff Masters:
"Any move to expand the #SaffirSimpson scale would have to come from the NHC, and there is little support for such a move from the experts there that I have heard from.
However, talking about hypothetical #Category6 storms is a valuable communication strategy for policymakers and the public, because it is important to understand how much more damaging these new #superstorms can be."
Ivi Choc
Meteorologist Austen Onek
Karen E. Lund 💙💛
Geraldo 🌎
Kent Pitman
Alexand
indianflash
Steve Dustcircle 🌹
CelloMom On Cars
I Voted for McGovern