Posted on 06/06/2018 11:44:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When tropical cyclones slow, they drop far more rain, sparking even more devastating floods. Future climate change is expected to slow them still more.
Tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are now crawling across the planet at a slower pace than they did decades ago, dragging out and amplifying their devastation, new research published Wednesday shows.
At the same time, related research published just last month suggests that warming temperatures from climate change will slow storms more in the future.
"Nothing good comes out of a slowing storm," says James Kossin, with the NOAA's Center for Weather and Climate, and author of the first paper, published today in the journal Nature. "It can increase storm surge. It can increase the amount of time that structures are subjected to strong wind. And it increases rainfall."
Kossin's work was based on details of almost 70 years' worth of storms, but he made no attempt to determine what was causing the slowdown. Still, the shift is precisely what he and other cyclone experts said would be expected from climate change.
Christina Patricola, a scientist with the climate and ecosystem sciences division of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, called Kossin's work "important and new" and says she found it "pretty convincing."
Kossi hopes that scientists will begin building models that show which communities are likely to face the most risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
BS!
In the decades before satellite photography, they did not see developing storms during their early formative period. Storms were identified only when they had grown enough and ships at sea encountered them. We also didn’t have hurricane hunter aircraft until the storm got close enough to the US Mainland from which they’re based (in the 1970s, that was Keesler AFB, Miss.).
So add those formative days to those olden times hurricanes, and there is no slowing down.
When I scroll down and see that mug, I crack up every time.
Slow em down altogether until they just stop
That was sweet back in the day. Much more so for South America than Africa...
If global warming alarmists like NASA had publicly predicted this effect years ago then the so-called effects of global warming would have been a tad credible imo.
But since the effects of politically correct global warming are being identified with Captain Obvious hindsight imo, global warming is nothing more than a fictitious excuse for higher, unconstitutional federal taxing and spending for this issue imo.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all. Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
....and series!!
At last, a breakthrough. We are starting to understand how the Karl Rove / George Bush “Weather Machine” actually operates.
Last hurricane I was in seemed like it didn’t move at all for a week.
Hugh has a huge problem in that case-and the person who actually typed that headline needs to start using a grammar check...
LOL that was my substitute for Playboy, without wife getting bent out of shape.
Hurricanes arent even close to moving as slow as the DOJ/FBI.
Aaaand to wrap this one up: are you logged in?
CC
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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