Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming Book

Contents

PROLOGUE: 6229 Memphis Street 1

INTRODUCTION: "The Party Line" 5

Part I

Warming and Storming

1 • Chimneys and Whirlpools 15

2 • Of Heat Engines . . . 31

3 • . . . and Computer Models 44

4 • "Lay That Matrix Down" 59

5 • From Hypercanes to Hurricane Andrew 80

Part II

Boiling Over

INTERLUDE: Among the Forecasters 103

6 • The Luck of Florida 109

7 • Frictional Divergence 123

8 • Meet the Press 137

9 • "The #$%^& Hit the Fan" 155

10 • Resistance 169

11 • "Consensus" 180

Part III

Storm World

12 • Preseason Warm-Ups 205

13 • Where Are the Storms? 224

14 • Hurricane Climatology 245

CONCLUSION: Home Again 260

AFTERWORD 277

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 285

APPENDIX I: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale;

Note on Units of Measurement 289

APPENDIX II: Cyclone Typology 293

APPENDIX III: Early Hurricane–Climate Speculations 295

APPENDIX IV: Consensus Statements by Participants

in the World Meteorological Organization’s

6th International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones,

San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2006 301

NOTES 303

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECOMMENDED READING 379

LIST OF INTERVIEWS 385

INDEX 391