For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively

barlevg writes "In a recent interview, former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore made a bold claim, that man-made global warming was causing hurricanes to be formed of such severity that 'they're adding a 6' to the hurricane scale, going on to say that 'The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these storms and extreme weather events.' In response, the National Weather Service has responded that they have no plans to add a 'doomsday Category 6' to their rating scale: 'No, we're not pursuing any such change. I'm also not sure who VP Gore means by "they,"' also noting that 'Category 5 has no ceiling: it includes hurricanes with top sustained winds of 157 mph and higher.' Furthermore, a recently leaked United Nations climate assessment claims only 'low confidence' of a link between human activity and increased hurricane severity and that this is likely due to increased human settlement in coastal areas and other regions vulnerable to natural disasters." Along similar lines, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that Tesla's Model S, no matter how safe it is, doesn't get any special grade inflation: there's no "5.4" score (as the company did in a press release this week), because that's just not how the NHTSA keeps score. (Hat tip to reader cartechboy.)

Erroneous claims by the inventor of the net?

[Captain_Loser]

I'm surprised that the inventor of The Internet would make such erroneous claims.

There should be a Cat 6

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, there can be bigger hurricanes and they should have a higher Cat 6 level. More water vapor and more CO2 can influence these storms by how much thermal energy and pressure differences there are in the atmosphere.

Tesla's Model S is just hot. Why would you want to crash it?

Nice trolling submission.

I got him beat

[Mitchell314]

My category scale goes to 11

Re:I got him beat

[gagol]

That's nothing, on my laptop the volume goes to 255!

Re:There should be a Cat 6

[Obfuscant]

Yes, there can be bigger hurricanes and they should have a higher Cat 6 level.

Yes, Cat6. More twists per inch and you can't strip back as far when you punch one down into a patch block.

Re:A whole news post

[wooferhound]

If a Hurricane is strong enough to tip over a Tesla model S, then it should get a Category 6 rating . . .