Posted on 08/28/2017 10:58:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
We cant say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it.
What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey? There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding.
Sea level rise attributable to climate change some of which is due to coastal subsidence caused by human disturbance such as oil drilling is more than half a foot over the past few decades. That means the storm surge was half a foot higher than it would have been just decades ago, meaning far more flooding and destruction.
Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage and a larger storm surge.
The stalling is due to very weak prevailing winds, which are failing to steer the storm off to sea, allowing it to spin around and wobble back and forth. This pattern of subtropical expansion is predicted in model simulations of human-caused climate change.
In conclusion, while we cannot say climate change caused Hurricane Harvey, we can say is that it exacerbated several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life. Climate change worsened the impact of Hurricane Harvey.
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Bwahahahaha
Water water every where
Sea level rise attributable to climate change some of which is due to coastal subsidence caused by human disturbance such as oil drilling is more than half a foot over the past few decades. That means the storm surge was half a foot higher
So the surge was higher because the sea for sunk. Right.
So while he is wildly off on all of his man-made nonsense, the Climate Changing (through natural systems) could be a part of hurricanes becoming worse, because the are air pressure anomalies.
One, Michael Mann.
Two, The Guardian.
And then we have an “oops” in the NOAA sea level data for the Freeport TX (by Houston) sea level data.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8772440
Makes you wonder about the rest of the data locations...
My models show that rain will get wetter and wetter over the next few decades.
At the very least. The same happened with Matthew last year. The Weather Service is corrupt.
Shove your hockey stick, Mikey
Then the last nearly 12 years WITHOUT a hurricane.
Michael Mann, B.S., M.S., P.o.S.
That large amount of moisture creates the potential for much greater rainfalls and greater flooding. The combination of coastal flooding and heavy rainfall is responsible for the devastating flooding that Houston is experiencing.
Not only are the surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico unusually warm right now, but there is a deep layer of warm water that Harvey was able to feed upon when it intensified at near record pace as it neared the coast. Human-caused warming is penetrating down into the ocean. Its creating deeper layers of warm water in the Gulf and elsewhere.
My, this fellow certainly has a large manure shovel.
I smell BS. Oh, no wonder, it's Michael Mann.
The most discredited Warmer on the planet makes an absolute statement that “Climate Change” made Harvey worse. Is he referring to the hurricane or the rabbit? LOL
Weather is dictated by the Navier-Stokes equation, and is a chaotic dynamical system. This means that weather is 100% deterministic, and there is nothing that man can do to control the weather. All chaotic dynamical systems suffer from sensitive dependency on initial conditions, which means that if a butterfly farts in China today it can change the weather in Texas in about 3 days. So anything could have caused this storm.
Great point.
Mikey Manny employs the usual lie-by-omission...
His stock in trade.
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