Posted on 09/20/2022 7:27:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - After a quiet start to the season, Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico and then battered the Dominican Republic, leaving more than 1 million people without running water or power.
While scientists haven't yet determined whether climate change influenced Fiona's strength or behavior, there's strong evidence that these devastating storms are getting worse.
Here's why.
IS CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING HURRICANES?
Yes, climate change is making hurricanes wetter, windier and altogether more intense. There is also evidence that it is causing storms to travel more slowly, meaning they can dump more water in one place.
If it weren't for the oceans, the planet would be much hotter due to climate change. But in the last 40 years, the ocean has absorbed about 90% of the warming caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Much of this ocean heat is contained near the water's surface. This additional heat can fuel a storm's intensity and power stronger winds.
Climate change can also boost the amount of rainfall delivered by a storm. Because a warmer atmosphere can also hold more moisture, water vapor builds up until clouds break, sending down heavy rain.
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Does anyone believe this lying nonsense? I guess millions of people do.
You can bet your sweet bippie that within one day of a weather event, there will be the news article linking it to globull warming. You could set your watch by it.
[They] are engaging in gas-lighting again.
Common sense tells us that higher temperatures in the near-Eart atmosphere translates into more energy for storms to develope (as it “sucks” warm water from the oceans).
This, in turn, means the more energy an individual storm has, the more energy it can invest in force building if it moves slowly or moves quickly expending the energy in “whole-body” velocity.
Meaning weaker storms like Fiona (Cat3) will move along quick-er and (relatively) slow moving storms will build in force.
Velocity of Movement of a storm is a \lagging/ indicator of the energy in and building the storm.
That’s some serious Gaslighting!
Paraphrasing GHW Bush, Voodoo Science.
I’m counting on it... I’m heavily invested in properties along the southern border of Georgia. When Florida falls off the map after one too many hurricanes, I’ll be sitting pretty with my beachfront property overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.
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Except the data says they are not.
We have had fewer hurricanes not more.
Reuters is a LEFT WING MOUTHPIECE.
Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing democrat media.
ANYTHING.
Where’s the Goebbels pic, there was supposed to be a Goebbels pic.
One - ONE - medium-size hurricane in the Atlantic, late in the season, and out comes the pre-printed alarmist article.
Fiona hit as a category 1 hurricane. Until they modify the rating system to accommodate their climate change fantasies, their procalmations of storms being “worse” are lies unless they can point to an unusual string of high category storms.
If we have an average season next year, then averageness will be seen as a hypermegaultra sign of climate catastropocalypse.
“scientists haven’t yet determined whether climate change influenced Fiona’s strength or behavior”
Perfect example of why the change was made from “global warming” to just “climate change”.
Climate change can be ANYTHING they want it to be.
They also are careful NOT to say “caused”, but (maybe) only “influenced” strength or behavior.
What a load of BS this non-story is.
Man made climate change is the biggest HOAX on the world until COVID.
DRASTIC climate changes have been happening to the earth since it was formed.
MINOR climate changes happen EVERY DAY (weather).
Man made climate change is actually a bigger HOAX than COVID 19.
Gloria “Dickie”
Freelance “journalist” who works appear only in left wing publications
Some objectivity you got there, Dickie. I wonder what result to your career if you wrote an anti ‘climate change” piece, say interviewing scientists that disagree with you?
This year they had so many hurricanes they had to wait until late September to dust off this old article.
I believe a closer look at hurricane and tornado history will reveal fewer and with less intensity occurred during the past ten years than is past ten year segments. I have not checked the record and am relying on memory.
Hurricane counts increased because we can find them now. In past, lots of hurricanes got unnoticed.
The “cost” of hurricanes increases with inflation and population growths in hurricane prone areas.
One of the new breed of liar, called “communicators” or “explainers.” The article is almost entirely fictional. But the usual idiots who trust reuters will suck it down like it’s gospel.
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