Posted on 02/09/2015 9:39:36 AM PST by CedarDave
Heavy rainstorms have become more numerous on Hawaii island over the past 50 years while becoming less frequent in Leeward Oahu and Central Maui, according to a recent study by a pair of University of Hawaii researchers who tie the phenomenon to climate change.
By 1960, for example, a storm that dumped 12 inches of rain on the Big Island occurred once every 20 years. By 2009, however, a storm that strong was striking the island every three to five years, the study found, and the "new" storm was pouring down more than 16.5 inches of rain.
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Researchers: Climate change affecting Hawaii Island storms
So they believe changes since 1960 are due to climate change. What is left unsaid in the article excerpts available here but implied is that the change is due to MAN-MADE climate change. That is their agenda so any change is automatically due to man. I would venture a non-scientific guess that if weather records were available for several hundred years or longer in the past, a similar pattern would emerge.
Climate has been changing since an atmosphere formed here.
Has it got anything to do with all that friggin lava that has been pumping heat and gasses into the atmosphere?
Not possible. It is the time your dad smoked ribs in your backyard.
Anyone who has spent more than a week in the Hawaiian island chain knows that the leeward side of every island there is desert like and the windward side is lush and tropical rain forest due to the NE Tradewinds being blocked by mountain ranges which drips most of the moisture on the windward side. It’s been that way before the first Polynesian rowed ashore to inhabit the islands.
I really can’t figure this out. The radical liberals love to run around yelling at everybody about how much they love change. A little change starts and they all become paranoid, delusional and crazy. That’s some weird carp.
If you go look at the source data the quoted in this article, it contradicts what it says. Pretty much everyone is making fun of it.
Looking for 15 minutes of fame and a financial grant.
post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Good. Hopefully the rainfall will cause the sea levels to rise and sing Hawaii under water. Two less Dem senators to deal with.
Um...”Leeward” and “Central” mean that they are in the rain shadow of the mountains. The Hawaiian word is “Kona” and is the “Dry Side” of all the inhabited Hawaiian Islands. The tiny Island of Ni’ihau is totally in the rain shadow of Kauai, and receives very little rainfall.
The Kona side of the Big island is technically a coastal desert, but still quite nice!
The Tourists call it the “Sunny Side” and prefer it to Hilo.
It is what it is.
Indeed.
Great Minds think alike, my FRiend!
Well Hawaii is moving higher up into the Clouds ,LOL
Parts of Oahu have been dry as a bone for a long time. I hiked to the top of Diamond Head 50 years ago and saw cactus along the way. It’s still there.
The erroneous belief is that the weather patterns of sixty or even 100 years ago were some sort of “climate norm” and NEVER preceded by different patterns and certainly NEVER by patterns seen today. No, the “climate” and the weather patterns are ONLY NOW changing, and climate change and changing weather patterns never happened UNTIL HUMANS CAUSED THEM TO; don’t ya know!!!!
This year, there has been far less rain than usual on the Hilo side of the big island. The weather has been better than Kona!
How much will it cost to fix it?
if you have a sample size of 4 billion years, you need at least 1100 years of weather data in order to be statistically significant to 99%
and, given how much more we have learned about the dynamic impact of many variables that affect climate (weather), extracting deep core soil & ice samples to analyze their contents actually can only provide guesses to the series of events that created the contents in the samples - they tell us certain conditions changed but are less accurate as to WHY
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