Global Warming to Fuel More Severe Tornadoes and Thunderstorms

Live Science.com ^ | August 30, 2007 | Andrea Thompson - Live Science

[Always Right]

Climate models have previously shown that Earth will see more heavy rainstorms as the atmosphere warms, but a new climate model developed by NASA researchers is the first to show the difference in strength between storms that occur over land

Climate Models.....random number generators would be more accurate.

[RoadKingSE]

Ignoring the self-answering part of the request, the purpose of NASA is to keep the USA pre-eminent in space. The USA is pre-eminent in space. QED

Hey NASA! Thanks for the Tang. Oh and those astronaut diapers, COOL.

I think I'd rather have my tax dollars fund pre-eminence in development of IED-proof combat vehicles, or a suicidal islamist extermination spray. I can watch Channel 13 for the weather report. Cape Canaveral would make a nice golf resort.

[aruanan]

Global Warming to Fuel More Severe Tornadoes and Thunderstorms

No, it won't. The temperature rise has been in the higher rather than lower latitudes and in nighttime rather than daytime temperatures. The severity of a thunderstorm depends to a large degree on the temperature difference between cold and warm air masses. If the more northerly colder, drier air masses are progressively less cold, then the difference between them and the more southerly warmer, humid air masses is less pronounced, meaning a reduced chance for violent thnuderstorms and tornados.

[RightWhale]

NASA did not develop Tang. Since you apparently favor military applications, you would be aware that 2/3 of NASA is support for military applications.

[Eagles Talon IV]

LOL, right, in fact the Hurricane predictions have proved to be abysmally wrong in the past 2 years.

[Red Badger]

The models don't directly simulate thunderstorms and lightning, but look for conditions that are ripe for severe storms to form.

So, we made it all up.........algore can thank us later.......

[GreenAccord]

The title should be:

Threat of Global Warming to fuel more coverage of tornadoes and thunderstorms.

[Tarpon]

Since we now know everything causes globull warming, today, China says one child limit, male only, to help globull warming — Hey I have a thought ...

[Sgt_Schultze]

I'm still waiting for the approximate date of Climatic Nirvana (TM) against which today's climate is compared. After all, if we are destroying the environment, surely there are definable characteristics of the optimal climate and when it occurred.

[samtheman]

a new climate model developed by NASA researchers

Climate model. The latest video game for "researchers".

[rfp1234]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Well, that consider that tornadoes and thunderstorms are the result of ^weather^, not ^climate^.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Sorry...

“...that AND consider...

[VeniVidiVici]

And they still can’t predict tornadoes.

[DungeonMaster]

Global warming to fuel more weather of all kinds. More heat, more cold, more wind, more calm, more rain, more drought. All weather proves global warming, all hail global warming.

[Hacklehead]

Yes, Yes, we’re all going to die. I got the message.

I wish NASA would focus on things like keeping the space shuttles from disintegrating rather than wasting their time on this trash.

[KarlInOhio]

I'm scratching my head about this. The global warming prediction has the greatest temperature increase in nighttime arctic temperatures, while the least change is in tropic daytime temperatures. If the arctic temperatures are closer to the tropic temperatures, it seems like the weather would be LESS severe because the most thunderstorms are caused by large differences between cold and warm areas.

[woofer]

right, in fact the Hurricane predictions have proved to be abysmally wrong in the past 2 years.

Please allow me to refer you back to another poster on this thread:

Throw up a thousand predictions and one is bound to stick.

OTOH, I predict we'll be hearing from the GW disciples every spring how the coming hurricane season is gonna be "da worstest evah!".