Posted on 09/17/2018 3:32:04 PM PDT by Innovative
A warmer world makes for nastier hurricanes. Scientists say they are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster.
Their storm surges are more destructive because climate change has already made the seas rise. And lately, the storms seem to be stalling more often and thus dumping more rain.
Study after study shows that climate change, in general, makes hurricanes worse. But determining the role of global warming in a specific storm such as Hurricane Florence or Typhoon Mangkhut is not so simple — at least not without detailed statistical and computer analyses.
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Hey this is no laughing matter it turns this hurricane into a category one with 80 mile an hour winds!
Wasn’t there an article that appeared here not long ago that said that while the Atlantic is to have a bit more than average hurricane activity for this season, the Indian and Pacific Oceans are forecast to have normal, average activity. Therefore, the media’s portrayal of all of this does not compute.
but mostly it’s making No Hurricanes
Cat 1 is intense?
So they are de-emphasizing the wind, due to Florence being a minimal hurricane, and playing up the water...Screw these commie propagandists!
LOL....it went from a Cat 4 with winds of 140 mph to Cat 2 at best and then Cat 1 with winds of 80 mph at landfall....while going over warmer water.
No. Trump did that.
Nonsense.
And based upon the last 5-10 years, it is reducing their number in the Atlantic Ocean every year. Source: Weatherbell.com study by Joe Bastardi.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
Way more. Sheesh.
We need a national insurance plan that we are all required to buy in, to protect us from these. Let’s call it Obamacare!
Oh, that name is already in use? Ok...
No, bored 24/7/365 cable news reporters are making hurricanes way more intense. Think about it.
It’s Obama’s fault. He wasted trillions of dollars that could have been used to end global warming. /s
More intense hurricanes? Based on records going back how many years??
100, 200, 250 years? Native Indians did not keep weather records. Since our planet is 5,000,000,000 years old, it is ignorant to make weather statements based on 0,0000001% of data.
As for current hurricanes, Katrina was the most destructive and that was during Bush years. So actually hurricanes are getting MILDER!
This one was always about the surge and rain induced flooding. She tried to get too big, causing her to suck in dry air, just as others have in the past. There is nothing in my 40+ years of monitoring hurricanes that I can say is unusual or unexplained in this one. Had the winds remained up, the flooding would have been even worse.
You don't believe in scienc!/sarc
“A warmer world makes for nastier hurricanes. Scientists say they are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster.”
Worried about planet earth? Then move.
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