[NormsRevenge]

AP : Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_sc/us_sci_climate_floods

WASHINGTON – Two studies in the journal Nature link global warming to extreme rainstorms and snowfalls and find these weather events are getting substantially worse.

One study found that the strongest precipitation events were 7 percent wetter in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s. The other looked at costly flooding in England and Wales in the fall of 2000 and found that global warming more than doubled the likelihood of that flood occurring. Both studies used computer modeling.

[samtheman]

BS

[jimt]

To put it simply, BS ! To read the details, try

[SQUID]

Climate is supposed to change; what arrogance to assume we can put a thermostat on nature

[mmercier]

Anyone who believes that human activity can effect global weather patterns should go out and swing a stick at a tornado.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Peeing contributes to climate change.

You are no longer free to pee.

0’s health lords deem it so.

[rockinqsranch]

“PARIS (AFP)”

Bad Champagne with too many of those snails.

[BitWielder1]

Is it possible that modern communication technology makes us record events that previously went unnoticed?
Or that the population increase affects the probability that human settlements are hit and thus the weather event is noticed.

[mo]

Yeah yeah...and if its NOT “climate change” it MUST be “Bush’s fault” /s

these liberal sponges are so predictable.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The main driver was simply more water in the air. "In a warmer world the atmosphere has greater moisture-holding capacity," he explained.

Ummm...so why is the same supposed-phenomenom (global warming) blamed for the drought and very dry conditions in the Colorado River basin?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[babble-on]

also causes drought. Whatever bad happens, in fact, is cause by human CO2 emissions.

[NRA1995]

So, water is wetter when the world is warmer......good T-shirt slogan.....

[NRA1995]

All I see here are statements, no facts. Of course, when did facts matter to these stupid lemmings?

[oh8eleven]

Francis Zwiers, a researcher at the University of Victoria in Canada and a co-author of one of the studies.
This guy apparently works for the gov't - "Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis" as Director of the Climate Research Division. Also ...

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for "their efforts to build up and
disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Nope, no bias there.

[melsec]

These people think we have no memories. I remember vividly the same sort of weather patterns in the 70’s that Australia is now experiencing. I am no Prophet but last year when we were coming to the end of a severe drought I told my wife and friends that we would see a lot of flooding this year. It tends to be that when droughts break here it is followed by severe flooding.

Mel

[LostPassword]

“This paper provides the first specific evidence that this is indeed the case,”

I don’t think this is the first “specific evidence”. But the other studies have been shown to be faulty so they can be ignored.

[SteamShovel]

Humans influence the intensity of precipitation extremes

There isn't any proof of this, they merely correlate human activity with precipitation intensity, and with the models that were created to show things like intense storms - al-la Algore and Katrina.

Show me the programming and the data that went into it. I bet it's cooked.

THIS PROVES NOTHING.

[GSWarrior]

Increased flooding driven by climate change: study

Increased flooding driven by climate change study

There. I fixed the headline.