Posted on 08/28/2017 10:58:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
We can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it.
What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey? There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding.
Sea level rise attributable to climate change – some of which is due to coastal subsidence caused by human disturbance such as oil drilling – is more than half a foot over the past few decades. That means the storm surge was half a foot higher than it would have been just decades ago, meaning far more flooding and destruction.
Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage and a larger storm surge.
The stalling is due to very weak prevailing winds, which are failing to steer the storm off to sea, allowing it to spin around and wobble back and forth. This pattern of subtropical expansion is predicted in model simulations of human-caused climate change.
In conclusion, while we cannot say climate change “caused” Hurricane Harvey, we can say is that it exacerbated several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life. Climate change worsened the impact of Hurricane Harvey.
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Is this THE Michael “hide the decline” Mann?
That didn’t take very long...
oh bull hockey
Michael Man is a crook, a fraud, and a liar. Nothing he says about climate is in the slightest bit credible.
How predictable! It was only a matter of time. And as always, consider the liberal/Marxist source.
Nope. Can’t prove warming is human caused. Warming is exaggerated/falsified anyway. Anti-science BS.
AlGore in 3..2..1..
More deadly than what?
A photo of Goebbels would be more appropriate.
The Ministry of Propaganda never rests.
Who is this Change guy and what kind of nincompoop parents name their child “Climate”? And how did he make this worse?
I’m sure that hurricanes causing more deaths and damage has nothing to do with more and more people living and building stuff in hurricane-prone areas.
Seriously, shouldn’t this Mann guy be the annoying kid who gets wedgied by the jocks in high school?
One would have thought that having his bogus hockey stick inserted rectally would have shut this fraud up. Instead, he doubles down.
If I accept that Harvey was more deadly because of climate change, will he accept that total hurricane deaths over the last 12 years (including Harvey) have been way less deadly because of climate change?
My guess is he’ll say Harvey was caused by AGW while the last 12 years were caused by fortunate natural variations which prevented AGW from killing millions.
Its a fact, Mike, you sir are a dishonest POS.
My kid went to one of his lectures at Penn State. Biggest waste of time in the history of the earth! Totally unimpressive. No facts, no notes, no supportive evidence. Just a train of shallow thought.
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