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By Paul Homewood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan#Meteorological_history
In his testimony to the Energy & Climate Change Committee in 2014, which I covered earlier, David King claimed:
“The strongest hurricane to ever hit land was Hurricane Haiyan,” the typhoon that hit the Philippines in 2013.
Such claims, based on satellite estimates, which of course only became generally available since the 1980s, are controversial. Before the satellites, typhoons monitoring in the Western Pacific relied on aircraft that were unable to cover the entire ocean and, for obvious reasons, avoided direct contact with even the strongest typhoons. Before that we only had land-based anemometers, which were seldom at the point of the highest wind speeds and would not survive such high wind speeds anyway.
Therefore, the most important measurement in the days before the satellite was always the central pressure. And here we find that Haiyan was far from being the most intense typhoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones#Western_North_Pacific_Ocean
Far from being the most intense, Haiyan is at the bottom of the list. There were twenty-four typhoons in the western Pacific that were more intense than Haiyan, which is also related to 16 others at 895 hPa. In other words, Haiyan only makes it into the top 51.
This list only dates back to 1927, so there have undoubtedly been many other, more intense typhoons.
And it’s not just Haiyan. Typhoon Goni, which hit the Philippines last year, is believed to be the strongest storm on land, with winds reaching 195 miles per hour. However, its central pressure has never fallen below 905 hPa, which does not even place it in the top 80 West Pacific typhoons. There is clearly a discrepancy between the claimed wind speeds and the central pressure.
It is true that pressure is not the only determinant of wind speed. Small, tightly wound cyclones can have high wind speeds because their isobars are closer together.
However, global warming theory predicts that warmer oceans, measured by pressure, will lead to more intense hurricanes. At least in the Western Pacific, this theory is obviously falling on its head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones#Western_North_Pacific_Ocean
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