I tried to avoid this kind of stuff yesterday, but, it showed up, and I can’t ignore it
Hurricane Erin strengthened back into a Category 4 behemoth over the weekend, the latest shift in what has been a remarkably fast-changing storm.
The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the fastest-strengthening Atlantic hurricanes on record and yet another indication that climate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms.
Erin became the first hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season Friday and exploded in strength from a Category 1 into a Category 5 storm in a little over 24 hours. Even after it weakened and re-strengthened into a Category 4 storm, Erin’s jaw-dropping transformation ranks it among the five storms fastest to grow from Category 1 to Category 5. (snip)
Climate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms, primarily because of warmer-than-usual sea surface temperatures and high levels of moisture in the atmosphere — key ingredients needed for storms to gather strength.
So, I wonder, do we know what happened prior to the satellite era? There was a time when we really wouldn’t have known much of anything about a storm like Erin. It might not even have been given a name, because it was simply out at sea. Is there data to compare what happened with Erin to what happened during a Holocene warm period? Or even the beginning of the 1900s? Doesn’t matter, no matter what happens the cultists will blame it on ‘climate change’.
In a preliminary analysis, the nonprofit research organization Climate Central said Erin’s “extreme rapid intensification” Saturday occurred as the storm moved over “unusually warm ocean waters that were made up to 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change.”
Seriously? The storm barely started and they were already to blame you for driving a fossil fueled vehicle. Nutters.
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I tried to avoid this kind of stuff yesterday, but, it showed up, and I can’t ignore it
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What did you expect: it’s their job, their entire reason for existence, to wail doom and gloom!
The increasingly shrill Mssrs teach and Dana should relax and stop reading “fiction” that upsets them so. Humans will adapt to changing climates just as we always have. There is no other choice.
Mr trump is working to allay their concerns by terminating research on climate, weather and hurricanes. If our ancestors survived by adapting to storms, heat waves, floods and droughts as they came, so can we!
BTW, hurricanes rely on the temperature of ocean waters for “fuel”. More heat, more “fuel”, and more powerful storms.
More bs using qualifiers to try and be believed.
How far do those records go back? If it is covered only in the ‘Satellite Era’ then it goes back only to the 1960’s. Between then and now is only a blink of the eye in meteorological terms.
This ‘hew and cry’ about “one of the fastest on record” is just noise, significant of nothing.