Quote:At a 2018 climate conference in New Zealand, climatologist and the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, Dr. Michael Mann, described the current Saffir–Simpson scale as increasingly outdated.
“Scientifically, [six] would be a better description of the strength of 200mph storms, and it would also better communicate the well-established finding now that climate change is making the strongest storms even stronger,” Dr. Mann said.
Do you suppose that might be the same "Dr." Michael Mann who was already caught lying about the severity and source of "climate change" around 2010, for political purposes?
Quote: “When you get up into winds in excess of 155 miles per hour, you have enough damage [and] if that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building, it’s going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it’s engineered,” said Dr. Simpson. “I think that it’s immaterial what will happen with winds stronger than 156 miles per hour. That’s the reason why we didn’t try to go any higher than that anyway.”
So what this new category would say in effect is "Category 5's can only erase the infrastructure of civilization that they hit, but Category ^'s could potentially erase the infrastructure of civilization that they hit."
Makes sense, I guess. it's kinda like saying "a 60 mile-an-hour collision can only destroy your car, but a 62 mile-an-hour collision can potentially destroy your car, so we need an additional speed-based impact scale to reflect that difference."
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