Posted on 09/30/2022 8:32:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A quick study by two scientists calculates that climate change made Hurricane Ian 10% rainier than it would have been if there were no such thing as global warming.
Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, a study prepared immediately after the storm shows.
Thursday's research, which is not peer-reviewed, compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm to about 20 different computer scenarios of a model with Hurricane Ian's characteristics slamming into the Sunshine State in a world with no human-caused climate change.
“The real storm was 10% wetter than the storm that might have been,’’ said Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner, study co-author.
Forecasters predicted Ian will have dropped up to two feet (61 centimeters) of rain in parts of Florida by the time it stopped.
Wehner and Kevin Reed, an atmospheric scientist at Stony Brook University, published a study in Nature Communications earlier this year looking at the hurricanes of 2020 and found during their rainiest three-hour periods they were more than 10% wetter than in a world without greenhouse gases trapping heat. Wehner and Reed applied the same scientifically accepted attribution technique to Hurricane Ian.
A long-time rule of physics is that for every extra degree of warmth Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the air in the atmosphere can hold 7% more water. This week the Gulf of Mexico was 0.8 degrees warmer than normal, which should have meant about 5% more rain. Reality turned out to be even worse. The flash study found the hurricane dropped double that — 10% more rain.
Ten percent may not sound like a lot, but 10% of 20 inches is two inches, which is a lot of rain, especially on top of the 20 inches that already fell, Reed said.
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Compared to what ?
Did AOC come up with that number?
Seth Borenstein, AP propagandist
Why didn’t they just blame Trump?
Now they can blame DeSantis.
Another study found today that wardaddy is the handsomest man ever known and has the largest penis
A sound study
“Sources say”
Cow pie but very effective propaganda. This will be used like the gay gene fraud.
Science just increased their BS by 20%, which may not seem like a lot, but it was already at record levels.
So now two freshmen half buzzed in a dorm are a study.
Before the Romans brought in all those damn chariots and stirred up dust at the Battle of Zama, Northern Africa was a lush garden area that supported elephants.
Lying scum.
Absolute unmitigated horse$hit.
Such as FL's annual rainfall per year as listed at: https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/data/statewide-averages/precipitation
2021: 56.14 (inches)
2020: 57.98
2018: 60.52
1994: 66.80 (evidently Slick Willy was trying to drown everybody)
1912: 65.05 (too many SUV's on the road in 1912?)
Is this the same 10% for BigGuyBiden?
I did a quick study too! I calculate that climate change had EVERYTHING to do with the hurricane! It's directly related to the climate change that happens when the seasons change!
From the article:
“...compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm
to about 20 different computer scenarios of a model
with Hurricane Ian’s characteristics...”
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Gee, maybe the models were wrong.
Like no one has ever seen that before...
A bunch of BS.
Rare to have only one US hurricane landfall so far into hurricane season.
Climate Crisis Scientists have 100% more Schiff For Brains
Climate change just caused my dog to puke up grass in the kitchen ! My cat is sleeping much later today and I believe that is from climate change also . My grand Daughter came home from the football game with a hickey on her neck and she said it was from climate change . If only they could tax us some more and put a stop to this degradation of our planet .
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