#category6 — Public Fediverse posts

@RebelGeo

Maybe I am missing something, but it seems unfathomably foolish that scientists would make a measurement scale that just stops incrementing as the thing being measured exceeds its original expectation.

Would we have hot temperatures stop at a couple hundred degrees (C or F)? Long distance measures that level off at 50 miles (or km)? It seems pure crazy.

Not only does it mess up proportionality, making many or most formula equations weird and unworkable, but here's the real thing bugging me:

We want people to know the climate problem is getting worse, so they'll do something. How can we do that if folks can keep saying "It's never worse than Cat 5" even as Cat 5 gets worse?

We already have the problem that instead of saying words like "really bad", we say "2 degrees". As if that would raise an eyebrow, much less an alarm. Do we really need more underwhelming terminology?

So why is this even a question? Did the people responsible take a class in Bad Labeling when they should have been in a class on Extrapolation? Why is extrapolation not automatic? I'm at a loss.

Just call it Cat 6 like the measure was always there and just never had a storm to match.

And start planning to see Cat 7, probably sooner than anyone expects.

#climate #terminology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #weather #measurement #hurricane #storms #Category5 #Category6

Learn about the unprecedentedly powerful #hurricanes caused by #climatechange and the advocacy for a new #Category6 on the #SaffirSimpson #Windscale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOlaRygT2c&feature=youtu.be

Weather guru Jeff Masters:
"Any move to expand the #SaffirSimpson scale would have to come from the NHC, and there is little support for such a move from the experts there that I have heard from.

However, talking about hypothetical #Category6 storms is a valuable communication strategy for policymakers and the public, because it is important to understand how much more damaging these new #superstorms can be."

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/02/does-the-saffir-simpson-scale-for-hurricanes-need-a-category-6/