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Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms - Storms Like Florence
NPR ^ | September 11, 2018 | by Rebecca Hersher

Posted on 09/12/2018 8:59:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Hurricane Florence is moving relentlessly toward the Southeastern U.S. It's a large, powerful cyclone that will likely bring storm surge and high winds to coastal communities.

But climate scientists say one of the biggest threats posed by Florence is rain.

"Freshwater flooding poses the greatest risk to life," explains James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Slow-moving storms are getting more common. A study published earlier this year by Kossin found that tropical cyclones around the world have slowed down 10 percent in the past 70 years.

Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says global warming also affects the size and intensity of storms like Florence.

"We have global warming, and so this actually makes these storms bigger and more intense," he explains. Humans burn fossil fuels in our cars, our power plants and our airplanes, all of which release greenhouse gases that trap heat. Warmer oceans, especially, provide fuel for hurricanes in the form of evaporating moisture.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; globalwarming; hoax; hurricane; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 09/12/2018 8:59:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh please, I just had a headache-inducing water cooler argument with a colleague over this.


2 posted on 09/12/2018 9:01:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people politicize everything like clockwork.

Check out the absolutely classless left-wing responses that Trump’s hurricane warning tweets are being spammed with. They spam every single Tweet he makes like this and it is almost certainly encouraged by Twitter because they never take any action against the political spammers and it’s beyond obvious that that is exactly what they are doing.


3 posted on 09/12/2018 9:02:08 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They probably wrote this story years ago and have just been waiting for a decent storm so that they could run it. They waited. And waited. And waited. And — finally! — in 2018 a storm occurred that “justified” their alarmism.


4 posted on 09/12/2018 9:02:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh-huh. That why there is snow on the Savannah?


5 posted on 09/12/2018 9:02:22 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Interestingly enough, it also drives smaller, drier storms.
Imagine that. It does it all!


6 posted on 09/12/2018 9:02:55 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NPR.
Heh!
They have as much credibility as ManBearPig Gore.


7 posted on 09/12/2018 9:03:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So...that’s why the U.S. had it’s first hurricane landfall in 11 years, just last year?


8 posted on 09/12/2018 9:03:45 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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9 posted on 09/12/2018 9:06:04 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hurricane activity decreased for like the last 15 years. They totally destroy their “science” narrative when they attribute individual weather events to GW. Otherwise they’d acknowledge more than a decade of less hurricanes and what that must mean to their silly theories.


10 posted on 09/12/2018 9:06:12 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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Does anyone have any hard proof of all the “climate change” claims that are made daily? I don’t mean some doctored, theory-validating graph or study, I mean real, scientific proof.

If not, all these statements like “climate changes drives bigger, wetter storms” are meaningless.


11 posted on 09/12/2018 9:06:55 AM PDT by Cecily
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Florence = Trump’s fault

Because CO2

QED


12 posted on 09/12/2018 9:07:42 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: G Larry

The big problem we have with hurricanes is that tens of millions of people have moved to the southeast coast over the past three decades. The infrastructure is not prepared to deal with that, nor is the mentality of the new residents.

It’s not that climate change is making hurricanes more sever than they’ve ever been.


13 posted on 09/12/2018 9:10:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Man Made Global Warming is Bullsh!t.


14 posted on 09/12/2018 9:16:49 AM PDT by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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"We have global warming, and so this actually makes these storms bigger and more intense,"

I have yet to see of one as damaging as the 1900 Galveston Texas hurricane, much less more so because of glo-bull warming...

15 posted on 09/12/2018 9:17:07 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny how the Gaia worshiping ecosocialist watermelons forget all about the distinction between climate and weather whenever it’s convenient for them.


16 posted on 09/12/2018 9:19:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
OFFS! 🐂💨💩🌪⛈. Ever in recorded history. Stuff before that-----don't count.
17 posted on 09/12/2018 9:19:48 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrats are evil.


18 posted on 09/12/2018 9:20:15 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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What would we do, if we didn’t have climate change to blame for everything bad that happens? (/sarc)


19 posted on 09/12/2018 9:20:36 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Goebbels warming


20 posted on 09/12/2018 9:21:37 AM PDT by Jagman
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