Posted on 08/28/2017 10:58:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“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”
YES “almost certainly” !!
I have another theory which the author conveniently omits:
How bout UNBRIDLED IMMIGRATION which pours people into the cities, particularly coastal ones? You know, more densely populated, more roads and highways, more expansion over farmlands and prairie? More animals for food? More pets. More lives at risk. More poor people, more without insurance or means to evacuate. Or understand or act on the advice. Or needing government assistance. Or looting and thieving and the uncountable instances of fraud that will inevitably result?
Yeah, what about all THAT?
This is a “Disaster” because it hit a major urban area. Had this hit around Brownsville, you’d nary a peep about it.
But yeah it’s that damn “global warming” errrrr “climate change”
Trump’s fault!
In 2005, after Katrina and Rita, we were told that frequent Category 3 and higher hurricanes were the inevitable result of Global Climate Change. Better get used to them because were are going to have several a year from now on until enough carbon taxes are enacted to fund Algore’s retirement.
That was immediately followed by a record 12 year period without a single Category 3 or higher hurricane hitting anywhere on the U.S. coast. Now every bad weather event is automatically blamed on Global Climate Change.
Sandy was a minor hurricane. The devastation that it caused was entirely the result of high population density where it happened to hit. The same can be said of Harvey.
The only reason that Houston became the largest city in Texas is because Galveston was the largest city in Texas when it got wiped out by the 1900 hurricane. So people and industry moved inland to the then swamps and flat lands of Houston.
I thought there was a high pressure area sitting to the north that prevented Harvey from drifting up and dissipating.
On average, were any of these "more intense" than what we've seen with past storms?
The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still the deadliest Gulf Coast hurricane on record, a record unlikely ever to be beaten.
Why isn’t this fraudster in jail?
I can’t wait to hear the crazy press ask Trump questions when he visits Texas.
I am sure either NYT or CNN will ask if he feels guilty over his climate change policy and abandonment of the Paris Accords and their role on creating this disaster in Texas.
Pure BS and Fake News, but we all know it is coming.
I'm sure there have been plenty more over the millennia, there's just no one around who remembers them all.
The very next sentence:
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.
I contend that all the wind farms are taking the wind out of the atmosphere because energy is fixed and can't be in the generators and the atmosphere at the same time.
Most of the damage caused by Harvey was not the result of winds or storm surge. It was the result of Harvey stalling after coming ashore (and getting downgraded to a tropical storm) and dumping trillions of gallons of water over a densely populated area.
Penn State? Joe Bastardi lives not far from there. He should have been on the dais with that ass to refute his thesis with inconvenient facts.
I know growing up hurricanes were not bad. In fact flooding and high winds never happened. More like strong thunderstorms...
You should run your little theory through a Climate Modeloscope v2.A7. They are very accurate - and automatically adjust to meet theory and funding requirements.
climate change and statues
Boy that was quick!
So what made Harvey so different from the others based on the data? And my, that data was collected and processed quickly!
Or is the simplest explanation the right one, that this was a ready-made assertion?
Yep - unfortunately, many on the left will disregard your “inconvenient” facts. ‘Cause MM’s word is gospel don’t cha know...
Perhaps Trump should ask why it was labeled a Cat 4.
I cordially invite Dr. Mann to come down here to H-town and tell everyone here in the oil patch face-to-face what he said in the Guardian article ....
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