- 13 Sep 2017 16:23
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I believe him rather than you.
It may be too early to tell to what extent Hurricanes are intensifying as a result of global warming but there is no doubt that they are intensifying and the science shows that warming has something to do with it. Sea levels are rising and that IS a result of warming. That is making Hurricanes worse.
Your assertions, Blackjack21, are groundless, myopic and ultimately far more dangerous than an error in the other direction.
All warriors know, "Plan for what your enemy could do not for what you think he might do."
Rubbish. Climate change theory asserts that global atmospheric temperatures will increase. Hurricanes have little to do with that. Hurricanes are simply the second law of thermodynamics. It is simply moving oceanic heat from a warmer place (near the equator) to a colder place. Hurricanes are cyclical as well, with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. When the heat retreats from Central and South America back toward Australia, hurricanes are more likely in the Carribean.
The duration and strength of hurricanes have increased by about 50 percent over the last three decades, according to study author Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Emanuel's finding defies existing models for measuring storm strength. Current models suggest that the intensity of hurricanes and typhoons should increase by 5 percent for every 1ºC (1.8ºF) rise in sea surface temperature.
"We've had half a degree [Celsius] of warming, so that should have led to a 2.5 percent increase [in intensity], which is probably not detectable,"
I believe him rather than you.
It may be too early to tell to what extent Hurricanes are intensifying as a result of global warming but there is no doubt that they are intensifying and the science shows that warming has something to do with it. Sea levels are rising and that IS a result of warming. That is making Hurricanes worse.
Your assertions, Blackjack21, are groundless, myopic and ultimately far more dangerous than an error in the other direction.
All warriors know, "Plan for what your enemy could do not for what you think he might do."
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire