Not exact matches
There has been an intense rush to use
Hurricane Sandy
as a teachable moment to focus the public (and politicians) on the risks
of an unabated buildup
of greenhouse gases and
resulting global warming.
• Anyone who doubts that the threat
of large
hurricanes is still being used
as part
of global warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activ
global warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform
of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «
Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activ
Global warming is real, is happening now and is the
result of human activities.
Witness Chris Landsea
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who resigned from the IPCC this year because he believed an IPCC top
hurricane scientist wrongly linked severe
hurricanes to
global warming;
as a
result, he wrote, «the IPCC process has been subverted and compromised, its neutrality lost.»
This suggests that the annual number
of hurricanes will continue to increase
as a
result of global warming, says Mann.
«The bottom line is that we are in an unusually active period
of hurricane activity,
as a
result of a combination
of natural variability and
global warming,» Dr. Curry said.
The same «experts» who predicted that
hurricanes would become stronger and more frequent
as a
result of the
global warming - which also did not happen.
Scaling the
results from both theory
as well
as climate model projections suggest, then, that roughly 3 %
of hurricane rainfall today can be reasonably attributed to manmade
global warming.
In both cases, the scientists have found evidence that the most intense
hurricanes are already occurring more often
as a
result of human - caused
global warming.
«My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment
of AMS members (that I have met
as a
result of my seasonal
hurricane forecasting and other activities) who have spent a sizable portion
of their careers down in the meteorological trenches
of observations and forecasting, have indicated that a majority
of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause
of global warming.
These two papers add to the growing body
of evidence that we are seeing more intense
hurricanes as a
result of human - caused
global warming.
I get to understand why
Global Warming is not seriously discussed amongst the populace in general, by watching many TV Meteorologists, who utterly confuse the matter, who also seem to be limited by the range
of their Doppler radars, seldom explain anything more than the latest extreme
Hurricane activity
as the
result of a «cycle».
As a
result, when it comes to
hurricanes, he only tells the side
of the story that will help him downplay the seriousness
of global warming.
The fact is, is that NOAA, in the federal government, has shown that there is conclusive evidence that the tropical waters are getting
warmer as a
result of global warming and while that doesn't lead to more
hurricanes, what it leads to is more intense, and and
hurricanes,
hurricanes that are more intense.
In the future, there may not necessarily be more
hurricanes, but there will likely be more intense
hurricanes that carry higher wind speeds and more precipitation
as a
result of global warming.