Christopher Landsea is one of the leading experts around in assessing historical records of severe weather in the Atlantic tropical basin. Reanalysis of historical records has been a major portion of his career with NOAA. If you think he was unaware of observational bias, you're a fool. See
A reanalysis of the 1911-1920 Atlantic hurricane database. Journal of Climate, 21(10):2138-2168,doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1119.1 2008 FY2008 for which he was lead author and
Extreme weather records: Compilation, adjudication, and publication. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(6):853-860, doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-6-85 2007 FY2007 and
Objectively determined resolution-dependent threshold criteria for the detection of tropical cyclones in climate models and reanalyses. Journal of Climate, 20(10):2307-2314, doi:10.1175/JCLI4074.1 2007 FY2007 and
The deadliest, costliest, and most intense United States tropical cyclones from 1851 to 2004 (and other frequently requested hurricane facts).
Go to Publications and enter C. Landsea, all categories into the document search engine. I got 94 published documents on hurricanes and hurricane history in which Landsea's was an author.
And if you think Landsea is not open-minded, here is a recent abstract of his you should read:
Michaels, P.J., P.C. Knappenberger, and C.W. Landsea. Comments on "Impacts of CO2-induced warming on simulated hurricane intensity and precipitation: Sensitivity to the choice of climate model and convective scheme." Journal of Climate, 18(23):5179-5182, doi:10.1175/JCLI3592.12005 FY2006
Abstract:
In a simulation of enhanced tropical cyclones in a warmer world, Knutson and Tuleya make several assumptions that are not borne out in the real world. They include an unrealistically large carbon dioxide growth rate, an overly strong relationship between sea surface temperature and hurricane intensity, and the use of a mesoscale model that has shown little to no useful skill in predicting current-day hurricane intensity. After accounting for these inaccuracies, a detectable increase in Atlantic hurricane intensity in response to growing atmospheric greenhouse gas levels during this century becomes unlikely.
All you've done there CrickHam is prove my point. The shill KNOWS BETTER than to open a Government page with a nod to Al Gore. He's one of zealots that put the ISSUE in front of their science. And go out of their way to play and DECEIVE the public about this exaggerated GW/CC crap...
Sad part is -- he's a very bad and OBVIOUS shill. Just like Trenberth, and Hansen and Jones. They lose credibility with ANYONE that has ANY scientific integrity..
All you've done here is to demonstrate that you haven't a fucking clue what Christopher Landsea's qualifications might be or what his position on AGW and storm intensity might be, but that doesn't stop you from badmouthing him. As to what you're babbling about Al Gore for, I haven't a fucking clue. Who do you believe Landsea has been shilling for in his 25+ years of work with the NOAA Tropical Prediction Center and the National Hurricane Center? Here, read this and then think about apologizing or at least admitting your mistakes
Christopher Landsea
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Christopher Landsea

Born 1965
Nationality United States of America
Ethnicity American
Education Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science
Alma mater Colorado State University
Occupation Atmospheric scientist
Organization Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center
Notable work Atlantic hurricane reanalysis
National Hurricane Center:Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones: FAQ
Awards American Meteorlogical Society's Banner I. Miller award (May 1993)
2007 NOAA Administrator's Award
United States Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for Superior Federal Service (Oct 2000)(co-recipient)
Christopher W. Landsea (born 1965) is an American meteorologist, formerly a research meteorologist with Hurricane Research Division of Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA, and now the Science and Operations Officer at theNational Hurricane Center. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Research and achievements
Landsea earned his doctoral degree in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He served as chair of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclone. Landsea was recognized with the American Meteorlogical Society's Banner I. Miller award for "best contribution to the science of hurricane and tropical weather forecasting."[1]
Over the years Landsea's work has involved the general hurricane FAQ currently on the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory website and the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis. Landsea has contributed to Science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Climate, and Nature. He has been vocal on the lack of a link between global warming and current hurricane intensity change.[1]
Landsea has published a number of research papers on cyclones and hurricanes. He is the author of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones: FAQ.[2] He also has been the lead scientist in the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis since 1997.
On global warming and hurricanes
In January, 2005, Landsea withdrew from his participation in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, criticizing it for using "a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound." [3] Landsea claimed the IPCC had become politicized and the leadership ignored his concerns.[4]
Landsea does not believe that global warming has a strong influence on hurricanes: "global warming might be enhancing hurricane winds, but only by 1 percent or 2 percent". According to Salon magazine, Bush administration personnel chose Landsea over another scientist at NOAA to speak to the media about the link between hurricanes and climate change after Hurricane Katrinadevastated New Orleans.[5]
In an interview on PBS, Christopher Landsea said "we certainly see substantial warming in the ocean and atmosphere over the last several decades on the order of a degree Fahrenheit, and I have no doubt a portion of that, at least, is due to greenhouse warming. The question is whether we're seeing any real increases in the hurricane activity." He went on to say "with the Atlantic hurricanes in particular, they're due to changes both in the ocean as well as the atmosphere. Just changing the ocean where it's a little bit warmer isn't sufficient." As for climate change affecting hurricane strength, Landsea said that global warming theories and numerical modeling suggest only that "hurricanes like Katrina and Rita may have been stronger due to global warming but maybe by one or two miles per hour."[6]