Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Making Winter Storms Worse Or Something

July 16, 2025 – 7:15 am

Oh, lawdy, here we go again

Winter nor’easters have steadily grown more severe and will worsen with climate change, Penn researchers find

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

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.

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8 Responses to “Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Making Winter Storms Worse Or Something”

  1. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    July 16, 2025 at 8:55 am

    “Professor” teach didn’t read the PNAS paper but Professor Mann reasoned:

    There is a general consensus that there will be fewer ETCs (nor-easters) in a warmer climate, a robust trend seen in both historical records and climate models (4, 11–14). This decline is in part due to polar amplification of warming, wherein the polar regions warm more than lower latitude regions (15, 16). Polar amplification reduces the pole-equator temperature gradient, in turn reducing the baroclinic energy available for ETC formation (4). In the subtropics, increased atmospheric stability due to enhanced upper tropospheric warming also contributes to a reduction in cyclone activity (12).

    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!

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  2. Andrew says:
    July 16, 2025 at 9:19 am

    I could go with less snow here in western ny

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  3. Jl says:
    July 16, 2025 at 9:54 am

    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

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    • Elwood P. Dowd says:
      July 16, 2025 at 11:02 am

      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!!!

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      • Jl says:
        July 16, 2025 at 7:05 pm

        Can you read? A model to “estimate” the data. So they’re not really accessing any data going back that far, because there isn’t any. They’re estimating what the data would have been using a computer model.

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        • Elwood P. Dowd says:
          July 16, 2025 at 7:35 pm

          Jl,

          We understand that you do not “believe” the basic physics of global warming, for example, that Warmer air holds more water vapor than cooler air.

          The reason nor’easters are intensifying is “basic physics,” Mann said. Warmer oceans and air mean more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere, which gets wrung out in the form of more intense rain or snow.

          Is it happening? Apparently so.

          The scientists used historical data and a cyclone tracking algorithm to analyze nor’easters between 1940 and 2025, pulling together a digital atlas of these storms.

          They analyzed 900 in total and found the maximum windspeed of the most intense nor’easters increased by around 6% since 1940, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

          This may sound small but it vastly increases the damage a storm can wreak. A 6% boost in wind speed equates to a 20% increase in the storm’s destructive potential, Mann said. “That’s substantial.”

          The rates of rain and snow dumped by these storms have also increased by about 10%, according to the analysis.

          The results also suggest the flooding risk in many East Coast cities may be underestimated, the study noted. “Nor’easters have been neglected, and that’s another contribution to increased coastal risk that we haven’t really been focusing on enough,” Mann added.

          Would you expect it to decrease as the Earth continues to warm?

          But relax. The MAGA-GOP is stopping all funding to study climate and all government efforts to slow warming. You’ve won!!! Of course, the right-wing cretins aren’t satisfied until they punish the climate “cultists”. Mr trump and his henchmen will destroy Professor Mann if needed.

          https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/climate/noreaster-storm-global-warming

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