Posted on 06/22/2015 9:00:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One of the hottest areas of climate research these days is on the potential connections between human emissions, global warming, and extreme weather. Will global warming make extreme weather more common or less common? More severe or less severe?
New research, just published today in Nature Climate Change helps to answer that question by approaching the problem in a novel way. In short yes, human emissions of greenhouse gases have made certain particular weather events more severe.
In summary, human warming affects weather in two ways. It changes the odds that any given extreme event will occur. But more importantly it makes the events more severe. I’ll leave you with the final paragraph from the paper which summarizes this as well as I could.
"The climate is changing: we have a new normal. The environment in which all weather events occur is not what it used to be. All storms, without exception, are different. Even if most of them look just like the ones we used to have, they are not the same."
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
So even if things aren't changing, they are? Woof.
I’ll bet the scientists who “discovered” this are swimming in global warming grants.
The only solution to saving us from hurricanes and extreme weather is to raise taxes, grow government, increase the cost of fuel, nationalize the energy industry and suppress capitalism. That should do it.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Coldest winter in generations caused by.....global warming.
Went to a local orchard this weekend, peach crop totally failed. Seems the winter was severe and a very cold spring killed the peach buds.
Global warming strikes again
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/10/16/global-warming-linked-to-more-severe-frequent-hurricanes
Doncha just hate it when your hypotheses are shot down by data?
I see. So the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern U.S. never had severe hurricanes before “climate change”? LMAO.
CSU RESEARCHERS SAY SANDY WASN’T INFLUENCED BY GLOBAL WARMING (NatGeo Dec. 7, 2012)
Researchers at Colorado State University say the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October was not caused by human-induced climate change.
In a recently released paper discussing the unusual “super-storm” that devastated the New Jersey shore and flooded the New York City subway and a traffic tunnel, CSU researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say the influence of human activity on the formation and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes “is likely to be negligible.”
“As extensive and tragic as Sandy’s spawned destruction has been, it is not beyond the range of what is known about the variability of rare but extreme cyclone events,” Gray and Klotzbach wrote.
The researchers acknowledge that human activity has led to an increase in carbon dioxide being released into the Earth’s atmosphere and an increase in average temperature. But Gray and Klotzbach do not think that has caused more frequent and powerful hurricanes to form.
“Our hurricane research extending over many years indicates that Atlantic hurricane variability is driven almost exclusively by natural changes,” they wrote. . .
This is the new meme.
I’ve seen it on multiple comments section now.
We’ve gone from global warming to climate change and now “extreme weather” associated with climate change.
Keep moving the goalposts.
Also deemed to be responsible for Caitlyn Jenner, Lady GaGa, Brian Williams, stink bugs, airline baggage fees, and the Cubs still not making it to the World Series.
CLIMATOLOGIST SAYS SANDY NOT CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING
(Nov 29, 2012)
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -
“IT’S GLOBAL WARMING, STUPID!”
That’s the bold declaration from Bloomberg Businessweek’s November 6th edition.
Following Hurricane Sandy, several scientists and journalists have asked if the storm’s destruction can be blamed on climate change.
Alabama’s top climatologist and UA-Huntsville professor, Dr. John Christy, does not agree with the conjecture. He said claims that the size of Hurricane Sandy may have been affected by global warming are not backed by the facts.
“Hurricane Sandy was a minimal hurricane. So, it is no way indicative of arising trends in hurricanes that might be attributed to global warming,” Christy said.
He said Sandy was unusual because a low intensity hurricane typically cannot survive long enough to hit such a large area.
“It occurred during a high tide. The moon was full. It occurred at a time when a very cold upper level trough was coming through the east coast, which helped keep it alive after it hit the land,” Christy said.
None of that, he added, is related to climate change. He said there is no evidence that global warming is causing more major storms.
“We’ve looked at hurricanes starting in the 1850’s. There is no trend in hurricanes. In fact, if you look at the last seven years, there has not been single major hurricane hit the United States. This is the longest period of such a dearth of hurricanes in that entire record,” Christy said.
http://www.wsfa.com/story/19980293/global-warming-caused-sandy-states-top-climatologist-says-no
Data are just facts. Facts are irrelevant.
The major cause of Global Warming is Government Research Grants.
And don’t forget The Guardian, teh U.K.’s left wing rag is always shouting The Sky Is Falling in concert with anything that goes against Capitalism or the USA.
An offensive F word to liberals. Facts.
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