Posted on 08/17/2018 11:20:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
California suffered through its hottest July on record, while August has pushed sea-surface temperatures off the San Diego coast to all-time highs.
Are these punishing summer heat waves the consequences of global warming or the result of familiar weather patterns?
The answer, scientists say, is both.
Climate change is amplifying natural variations in the weather. So when California roasts under a stubborn high-pressure system, the thermometer climbs higher than it would in the past.
“What we’re seeing now is the atmosphere doing what it has always done. But it’s doing it in a warmer world, so the heat waves occurring today are hotter,” said Park Williams, an associate research professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “We can expect that to continue.”
“This is not all about climate change. But climate change is having an influence and exacerbating the conditions,” said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Some climate scientists have suggested that global warming is promoting atmospheric changes that favor the formation of the kind of persistent high-pressure system that has driven up temperatures this summer.
But Williams said climate change models have yet to confirm that. Researchers have also failed to detect a global trend of more prolonged ridging patterns, he added.
“I personally don’t think the current ridge is a function of climate change,” Williams said. “The atmosphere has a mind of its own.”
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But Williams said climate change models have yet to confirm that.
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Or anything.
Air Conditioning make them think it’s Hot
FIFT. Next year they can anticipate these hitherto unexpected and unencountered phenomena.
I will provide the with a more appropriate term: Summer.
Liberals are turning this beautiful state into a landfill plus open air refugee camp for America’s homeless. And our infrastrucutre is dilapidated. Focus on real problems please.
No. It is not.
DEW (directed energy weapons used for intentional arson) is burning up California.
NO JOKE Bogota says refrain from Sex to keep the heat down.
There will be a baby boom in 8-9 months.
I saw a History channel special on that man. They interviewed a bunch of his former lovers. To a woman they said how utterly charming he was; what a wonderful man he was. They must have known he had a wife and children. How charming is a man you know is cheating on his wife?
Gosh, his photo sends a chill down my spine. He was, I think, the most talented of the henchmen.
***There will be a baby boom in 8-9 months.***
That’s what happened in NYC when the power went out back in 1965. Also, no excess crime. Then 12 years later under Carter, another power failure and massive looting. But again a baby boom 9 months later.
More than 2,350,000 (2014) CO2-exhaling illegal aliens in California.
More Than 1 Million Illegal Aliens Have Received California Driver’s Licenses
As a side note to illegal aliens who have been issued driver's licenses, consider this. More than one million illegal aliens can use their driver’s licenses to drive vehicles with even bigger carbon footprints to voting places so that they can illegally vote.Illegals in California with Driver's Licenses Eligible to Vote After April 1
Trump blames deadly wildfires on California governor Jerry Brown and 'environmental laws'
Uh-huh (yawn)
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