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Climate change science isn't vague
The proof is empirical and undeniable.
That's $1640 per U.S. tax payer, and it's just for Irma.
The proof is empirical and undeniable.
You're right, Dan. Before industrialization, there were no hurricanes.
Dan8267 says
The proof is empirical and undeniable.
Any true scientist would know that correlation does not equal causation.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/19/delingpole-climate-alarmists-finally-admit-we-were-wrong-about-global-warming/
And now, acclaimed climate scientists admit their models were very wrong.
. Before industrialization once in 500 years storms came once in 500 years. Today we had three in a single year.
Breitbart is a blatant propaganda mill.
Irma at landfall comes in 7th-8th behind 1935 Labor Day storm.
“As long as the climate isn’t changing, you can define these things reasonably well,” Trenberth said. “With climate change … what used to be a 500-year event is becoming a 70-year event or a 50-year event. It doesn’t mean that they’re common, but they’re no longer anything like as rare.”
“That’s what the changing climate has done,” Trenberth added. “It means the extremes are greater — and if we don’t adapt to these, if we don’t take them into account, if we don’t build more resilience, we will suffer the consequences.”
There’s very little doubt among scientists that climate change has ratcheted up the potential intensity of hurricanes and other large storms, Mann says. “There’s now a pretty solid consensus that … the strongest storms will be stronger.”
To understand how that happens, we can think of hurricanes as “heat engines.” At the start of a hurricane, warm air near the surface of the ocean rises, leaving a pocket of lower pressure air below. Other air from surrounding areas fills that pocket, and in turn warms and rises. As this cycle continues, “new” air swirls as it replaces the air that rises from the pocket. Meanwhile, the warm, moist air in the sky then forms a system of clouds, which spins and grows like an engine feeding off heat.
The contrast in surface and aloft temperatures drives that engine, and, thanks to global warming, surface temperatures are rising significantly. “It’s making those heat engines more efficient,” says Mann. And with more efficient heat engines come more intense storms.
“The old rules don’t apply anymore,” said Mann. “We’re no longer talking about chance alone. We’ve loaded the dice. We’ve loaded the weather dice by warming the planet and intensifying these storms and raising sea levels to the point where a storm that we’ve called a 1000-year event … is now a storm that we expect to happen once in maybe 20 or 30 years.”
Piggy, you are just plain wrong
Dude, I just showed you that you lied (or were "plain wrong") in the very title of the post.
The most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm in recorded history is sweeping across the Caribbean leaving destruction in its wake.
The most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm in recorded history
Only an idiot thinks that the measurable increase in severity of hurricanes is unfounded
Anyone else notice there was a major earthquake in Mexico today the same time Maria is doing it's thing and when Irma was churning, there was a major earthquake in Mexico. Coincidence or something more ?
$200 billion in damages from Irma. That's $1640 per U.S. tax payer, and it's just for Irma.
Coincidence or something more ?
said Mann.
You showed no such thing.
the exact text copy and pasted without edit from the title of the CNN article linked at the time of the original post.
Even your fucking Fox News
A groundbreaking study shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones.
Very wet rain events are the trigger," said Wdowinski, associate research professor of marine geology and geophysics at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "The heavy rain induces thousands of landslides and severe erosion, which removes ground material from the Earth's surface, releasing the stress load and encouraging movement along faults."
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