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UPDATE: OK, here are corresponding plots for other basins. It didn’t take that long to do the calculations. You’d think that this would be available form the hurricane specialists with their legions of graduate students. The graphics pretty much speak for themselves. (In the early years for some basins, there are identified storms which often don’t have any wind speeds attached, which explains the appearance here.) The scales of these graphics are not uniform – the N Indian Ocean is much much lower than N Pacific and would be barely noticeable on a uniform scale.

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2114#more-2114

Most intense ones here,

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So when Al Gore says they are getting stronger we had 1/2 as many intense ones in the 90’s as we did in the 50’s. 1/2! I call Baloney!

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Nuts and bolts here,

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table4.htm

Must have hurt the BBC to say “A blogger in Toronto has caused an International Stir over Climate change”. Saved the best for last.

Hear Steve here,

www.climateaudit.org/pdf/news/bbc.aug07.MP3