Posted on 09/14/2018 6:24:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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.
The Associated Press consulted with 17 meteorologists and scientists who study climate change, hurricanes or both. A few experts remain cautious about attributing global warming to a single event, but most of the scientists clearly see the hand of humans in Florence.
Global warming didn’t cause Florence, they say. But it makes the system a bigger danger. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
According to global warming models that I have read about, if the planet warms, the increase in temperature will not be uniform. It will be proportionally higher at higher latitudes. Areas close to the poles will experience the most warming, and areas close to the equator less. If the global warming models are correct, polar ice should decrease, but the tropics should not get much warmer.
If you accept that premise (which I do not, but am discussing for the sake of argument),then the temperature difference between the poles and the tropics will be proportionally lower. It is that temperature difference that drives major weather systems, and a lower relative temperature difference means weaker tropical storms, not stronger ones. If we really had stronger, more destructive storms (which we haven’t, just more people and infrastructure on the coasts, which leads to bigger damage costs), then that would be evidence AGAINST global warming.
Ban summer.
And a week or so ago, Weather Underground said a warmer world would result in more hurricane-killing wind shears....
Well since the world is not getting warmer we won’t have to worry
Thanks for the link. Dr. Spencer should be careful, the true believers will want to burn him at the stake.
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are. :)
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