Posted on 06/17/2011 12:59:53 PM PDT by FatherofFive
Overall, NOAA experts said extreme weather events have grown more frequent in the United States since 1980. Part of that shift is due to climate change, said Tom Karl, director of the agency's National Climatic Data Center.
"Extremes of precipitation are generally increasing because the planet is actually warming and more water is evaporating from the oceans," he said. "This extra water vapor in the atmosphere then enables rain and snow events to become more extensive and intense than they might otherwise be."
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What the hell are we funding NOAA for?
It behooves these 'scientists' to keep telling these Chicken Little stories for as long as they can. It's our job as rational people to shoot holes in them whenever we can.
Folks are still turning up who didn’t get the memo.
Notice how slyly they are changing over from “global warming” to “climate change.” As a new global climate minimum (possible Little Ice Age) begins, they will drop use of “global warming” entirely and speak only of anthropogenic “climate change.” “Global warming” will become forgotten: “We’ve always been concerned about climate change,” they will tell us.
In the same sense that “we have always been at war with East Asia.”
(George Orwell 1984 reference for those who may not otherwise know.)
It’s the same tune, though: impose socialism on the world.
It is so sad to have a job where thinking is optional. Only in government.
It’s called The Water Cycle and the same amount of water is on the Earth now as there was 1,000,000 years ago.
How many hurricanes this year?
So few that they need to name tropical storms, or lose their jobs.
Just get ready for more cold, and watch the idiots pay more for their heat or freeze in two or three years.
They were naming tropical storms during the ‘60s at latest. They just didn’t name them after men. ;-)
People listen up, the same amount of water on the earth year to year. Sometimes is form of ocean water, some times in the atmosphere, some times more freshwater. Only thing changing is amount of heat from sun we absorb. Without the sun we would be a big black rock in the middle of space. Think about it.
Wrong. The Pacific Ocean is in a cold PDO phase. That is why we have so much snow in our Western mountains. Has nothing at all to do with warmth or water vapor. The cold from the Pacific Ocean caused the formation of more moisture. So the water vapor in the atmosphere is decreasing. That decrease in water vapor equals the increase in our Western Mountain snow packs. Very simple science if you understand it.
At any rate, have any of these BoBo's Warming idiots ever stopped to wonder how all that Ice on land formed during the Ice Ages ? Where did all that moisture come from ? Here is a clue - Overall warming had nothing at all to do with it.
We may be heading to a little ice age, the record snow pack is causing flooding, but the drumbeat doesn’t stop.
At least I am not the only person who is considering the Rocky Mountains in this situation.
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