Oh, lawdy, here we go again
Winter nor’easters have steadily grown more severe over the last eight decades, and they will become even worse if climate change is not dealt with, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Pennsylvania professor.
The research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at 85 years of nor’easter data and found that over this period, the destructive potential of maximum wind speeds increased by 20%, and snowfall has risen about 10%.
But, what happened to
- Flashback 2000: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’ – ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is’ – UK Independent
- NY Times (2014) The End of Snow?
- NY Times (2024) The End of Snow
- Bloomberg The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives
- CNN The end of winter: A search for vanishing snow and ice around the Northern Hemisphere
Huh
“The average nor’easter, we find, won’t necessarily be any stronger, but the strongest ones will,” said Dr. Michael Mann, study co-author and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media.
Huh what?
“Because the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, that actually leads to fewer overall storms. But those storms that do make it out feed on that extra moisture. There’s more precipitation, and that provides more energy to these storms, and they can intensify more.”
And as climate change worsens, these storms will intensify.
“It also drives home the importance of moving away from our reliance on fossil fuels toward clean energy,” said Mann, “because it is leading to these devastating extreme weather events.
Sigh.
“Professor” teach didn’t read the PNAS paper but Professor Mann reasoned:
Yet, show data to suggest the remaining ETC’s will be stronger.
So, what is “Professor” teach’s beef? He should relax. He won. The fight is over. Yes, the Earth will warm but with fewer costs to MAGAts for mitigation!! A warmer Earth, fewer taxes and more liberal tears!!! Win, win, win! Relax!
I could go with less snow here in western ny
From the paper-“The ERA 5 global reanalysis dataset provides hourly “estimates” of climate data from 1940 to the present…”
So in other words they use a model to “estimate” what the storms did in the past to then say “they’re getting stronger”. Nice
What? The scientists used computers to assess the data rather than the more reliable abacus?? The horror! And they used the term “estimates”!!
Renowned climate scientist Jl demolishes the PNAS article!!!