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                          The changing of the seasons
                                        
Today is a very special day—**it's the end of freaking Hurricane Season!**

**Woot!**

Only nine storms through October (the November stats haven't been released
yet by the National Hurricane Center [1]) and of those, five were hurricanes,
and none hit the United States (and only one, Hurricane Ernesto, seems to
have done any damage whatsoever).

All in all, it's been a quiet hurricane season, for which I am thankful.

And in other hurricane related news:

> The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has just released two updated
> statements on the state of science on tropical cyclones and climate change.
> The statements have been released today through the Instituto Meteorologico
> Nacional [2], San Jose, Costa Rica. Anyone referencing this post or the
> statements, please do acknowledge them as the source.
> 
> We are pleased that the WMO statements are 100% consistent with the views
> on this subject that we have been sharing over the past few years. In
> particular, it should now be completely unambiguous that those who are
> representing hurricane impacts as being related to greenhouse gas
> emissions, without acknowledging that this is not a widely shared
> perspective among scientists, are either cherry picking the relevant
> science or misrepresenting the community consensus. As a matter of policy,
> those interested in addressing the impacts of tropical cyclones on people
> and economies necessarily should be focued on adaptive responses. We have
> obviously made this case for a while, now there is no ambiguity.
> 

Via Flares Into Darkness: Yet Another Really Great Blog [3], “WMO Consensus
Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change [4]” (emphasis added)

[1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
[2] http://www.imn.ac.cr/
[3] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2006/11/prometheus-wmo-consensus-statement-
[4] http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/00

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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