Old Rocks
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Well now, we shall see about that. And if the 'alarmists' turn out to be correct, how the fuck are you going to apologize to your descendants?Patty, just because you aren't smart enough to comprehend the article, it doesn't mean it didn't make sense to anyone wirh an adequate IQ lolHere's the first cult member to blame Harvey on global warming. I knew it wouldn't take long. It's difficult to exaggerate how stupid these people are:
We can’t 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.
Actually Mann has a habit of running to the press with what amounts to SPIN -- not science. He's got no scientific treatment of his assertions. PLENTY of hurricanes have formed in the Gulf in waters that are 1deg warmer from global warming AND DID NOT intensify. In fact, THIS one only intensified less than 16 hours from landfall after traversing much of the Gulf.
The crap about "static" weather conditions is ALSO not fully developed science. Aint the 1st time a hurricane was "blocked" from traveling or took an erratic course.
I think MAYBE you need to realize that the fear and the hype that these activist mouthpieces tried to sell in the 80s ---- It's ALL been revised downward. Because CO2 is NOT the master thermostat of the climate system. All the projections from 80s alarmism have failed miserably. The more exaggerated theories of GW --- like "trigger of no return" temperatures, positive feedbacks, runaway warming ---- have not manifested in the 30 years or been detected since they were puked out by a very YOUNG immature branch of science.
GW is real. But it is NOWHERE near a crisis to panic the herd over. And by the time we attempted the reverse the 0.6degC change in your lifetime -- our energy innovations would have all changed anyways.