If only you’d listed and stopped eating meat and started eating bug, but, no, you had to be stubborn
As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa’s ferocity
The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday.
Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind speeds of over 157 mph (252 kph). Melissa is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday before crossing Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.
Scientists said this is the fourth storm in the Atlantic this year to undergo rapid intensification of its wind speed and power.
“That part of the Atlantic is extremely warm right now — around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above normal,” said Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom. “And it’s not just the surface. The deeper layers of the ocean are also unusually warm, providing a vast reservoir of energy for the storm.”
Deoras, who has tracked the impact of climate change on weather phenomena for decades, said scientists are seeing storms intensify quickly.
But, wait, there is a very telling bit of cultology
“Climate change is fundamentally changing our weather. It does not mean that every single tropical cyclone is going to go through rapid or super-rapid intensification. However, in our warmer world, it will continue to increase the likelihood of storms going through rapid and super-rapid intensification,” said Bernadette Woods Placky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators.
See? They gave themselves an out for when hurricanes do no cooperate with their rapid intensification and “fundamentally changing our weather.”
Of course, none of this proves anthropogenic causation, simply that the Earth is going through a warm period just like has happened multiple times since the glacial period started ending. And this AP screed is being published all over the Credentialed Media.
2-3 degrees above normal is “extremely”. They will need to make up new words for 4 degrees.
Real-world hurricane activity shows little or no impact from global warming.
But we haven’t had our fair share of hurricanes this year. What happened? Hurricane backlash?
“Climate change is fundamentally changing our weather.”
This from the same people who try to tell us with a straight face that climate and weather absolutely aren’t the same thing.
Next thing you know, they’re going to tell us that inert gases in the atmosphere cause heat.
The frequency of at 4/5 storms has been increasing the frequency of cat 1/2/3 storms has been increasing
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Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
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We’ll get there fast
And then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we wanna go
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Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don’t we go? (Ooh, I wanna take you down to)