Posted on 08/25/2017 9:34:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The relationship between hurricanes and climate change is not simple. Some things are known with growing certainty. Others, not so much.
The most recent draft of a sweeping climate science report pulled together by 13 federal agencies as part of the National Climate Assessment suggested that the science linking hurricanes to climate change was still emerging. Looking back through the history of storms, “the trend signal has not yet had time to rise above the background variability of natural processes,” the report states.
Temperatures have been rising, and theory and computer modeling suggest an increase in storm intensity in a warmer world, “and the models generally show an increase in the number of very intense” storms.
And while the science of attributing weather events to climate change is advancing, “studies of individual events will typically contain caveats,” the report stated.
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and an author of the report, said even if global warming does not change the number of storms — and, she noted, there could even be fewer hurricanes over all — tropical storms and hurricanes do gain energy from warm water, so the unusually warm water that has accompanied climate change “can have a role in intensifying a storm that already exists.”
Dr. Hayhoe noted that scientists are not saying that hurricanes are necessarily caused by climate change, but are being affected by them.
“We care about a changing climate because it exacerbates the natural risks and hazards that we already face,” she said. “People always want to know is it climate change or is it not? The answer is it’s in between.”
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Get your hip waders out. The BS is running pretty deep. We haven’t had a major hurricane in years. Now we get a big one. Get over it.
I believe that a major hurricane has not hit the US in something like 148 months. Harvey may break that streak, but it's still a heck of a streak.
Maybe their computer models suck.
Maybe the whole thing is a giant fraud.
Maybe.
Trump’s fault...
Not complicated, simple. The models said more hurricanes and we have have less. The only possible conclusions is that the models are wrong. That is how science works.
Naw..this is probably caused by the statue of some white guy.
Ah yes. Falsifiability. An old favorite of mine. When the model doesn’t predict or predicts in the wrong magnitude or direction, well, the model is no good.
More time, that's what they need. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It just never stops, the relentless propaganda from the Left.
One hurricane in how many years?
Global warming was not only to have destroyed the Earth by now, but hurricanes were supposed to be almost too numerous to count by now.
The Left’s climate predictions have crashed and burned so many times.
And yet, here they are again.
Just wait, word is that during the remodel, they found Bush's weather machine!
Al Gore says, ...
...already heard news comments relating Trump to Bush’s Katrina
(CBS early)
Will go back and look at what I'm sure were ominous quotes from Gore.
Reminds me of Spanky of Our Gang when he became a golf caddy. Asked how the green broke he said...”Well it might break this way, or it might break that way, or it might break this other way...”
“Well we might have more hurricanes, but then we may have less hurricanes, then we may have more powerful hurricanes, but then....”
We will get better results by asking the black ball, then see what shows up in the viewer. (remember those?)
not only are their a lower number of tropical cyclones, the ones that are being “counted” or named is being exaggerated so as to show an inflated number of storms.
Also, the climate nutcases quietly changed their global warming alarms into climate change. The climate has changed since the planet formed.
no hurricanes for 11 years... one storm... Storm of the decade!
The headline in the Tampa Bay Times said ‘Massive Storm headed to Texas’. Stupid headline...but the Times is liberal...I miss the Tampa Tribune...
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