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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Scientists say ...”
Don’t need to read any further when this is the start of ANY lying leftist fake stream enemedia article ... as far as i’m concerned this is about the same thing as starting an article with: “Anonymous sources say ...”
Thank you. Can’t discuss climate without The Picture
Last year had an abnormally low level of hurricane activity and they said then (can you guess it?)... climate change was the reason.
Nothing to laugh about, hurricanes have killed 900 million people this year.
What about Galveston in the early 1900’s? That makes Florence look like a summer shower.
Except for the eleven years we didn’t have any.
L8r
A category 5 hit the Philippines but the media really doesn’t seem to care much about those people over there.
The historical record shows that the hurricanes 50 - 100 years (1918 -1968) ago were much more intense than the hurricanes during the last 50 (1969 - present)years.
That research was published just recently, and the differences were dramatic.
Sorry I don’t have a link
But with the '05 season being one of the worst in history, they just couldn't resist. So late that year they re-wrote their computer models to retroactively predict an awful 2005 hurricane season, caused by global warming.
Furthermore, their new, updated, "more accurate" models now predicted that 2006 would be even worse than 2005. And all due to global warming!
But 2006 came and went, and it was one of the very mildest hurricane seasons ever. Not one hurricane had enough power to even come close to touching land, as opposed to a half dozen that "landed" in 2005. Oopsy-doodle.
But hey, no problema! They just rewrote the models again to retroactively predict both the killer 2005 season and the nonexistent 2006 season.
Aren't computer models grand? You just need 2 things:
1) Supply it with a sufficiently large number of data streams from all available sources, no matter how seemingly unrelated to climate or weather any of them are.
2) But the real magic happens behind the wizard's curtain, where you get to choose the "weighting options". You decide to attach a great weight to figures from sources #1 and 16 and 34-A, but only for certain months, and then attach negative weights to data from sources B-33 and XYZ and ZZTop .... but again, only from certain months which YOU get to select for whatever reason you deem right.
And you average them all together, and then keep tweaking & tweaking & tweaking until you get the exact result you pre-determined before you started.
Remember that expose on the "Hockey Stick" paper, the paper that was the Holy Grail / Great White Hope / Hallelujah Moment of the alarmists, that they giddily rejoiced in as finally & decisively shutting up the GW Skeptics?
Though the globull alarmists fought tooth & nail to hide the nitty gritty details of how that model had "proven" that the Medieval Warm Period and the following Little Ice Age never actually happened, GW Skeptic scientists somehow eventually got hold of the raw data that the model was based on, and they found that the tree rings of one single solitary tree on Siberia's northern coastline was used to override all other data from thousands of other sources including written historical records that showed there really was a MWP + LIA.
All he had to do was assign a huge weight to that one tree, and zero weight to all other collected human scientific knowledge.
“Scientists say ...”
Like the former IPCC Climate Chief, whose PH.D was in Industrial Engineering and Economics and is now being charged with sex crimes:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/17/ex-ipcc-chief-rajendra-pachauri-headed-for-trial/
All the people who get the news via Facebook will hear is it was Trump’s fault.
People who “believe in science” are stupid.
I do science. I believe in falsifiability. I believe in iterative hypothesis testing. I believe in reproducible results.
But I don’t “believe in science”.
I would not call Florence “intense.” We have had worse surges over the years, the winds dropped down quickly after landfall. What made this such a serious hurricane was the huge amount of rain. I attribute much of that to the fact that a large high inland blocked the hurricane’s progress inland which only occurred after a few days when the high drifted off to the north. The rain caused swollen rivers did and are doing the damage.
The Atlantic will have more Hurricanes because of the Atlantic Islands. These islands are crammed full of cars belching out carbon particles that ensure disastrous global warming.
Sure...
And, there is a move to ban plastic straws in Florida.
The government must stop those straws from walking down to the beach and polluting the ocean and killing fish.
Just as is the case of the gun, blame the gun and not the person that loads and shoots it. Blame that damn straw, then ban it.
It has been going on for the last 20,000 years.
That's back when New York and the northern part of North America were buried under a 2 mile thick glacier known as the Laurentide ice sheet.
For a little variety, here's a replay of cooling last winter so bad it killed 19 people.
https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2018-01-02-early-january-arctic-chill-us
Lol! Best response yet!
Seriously, if you have to worry about a hurricane, then don't live in a place hammered by them every year. There are plenty of places that aren't in a flood plain. A clue is all the homes raised up on stilts. Move!
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