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05-10-2018, 09:57 PM
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Hurricane Harvey "supercharged" by Global Warming
Water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico before Harvey slammed into Texas last year were the highest ever recorded. Maybe it will happen again soon?
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-record...ne-harvey.html
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These hotter-than-normal conditions supercharged the storm, fueling it with vast stores of moisture, the authors found. When it stalled near the Houston area, the resulting rains broke precipitation records and caused devastating flooding.
"We show, for the first time, that the volume of rain over land corresponds to the amount of water evaporated from the unusually warm ocean," said lead author Kevin Trenberth, an NCAR senior scientist. "As climate change continues to heat the oceans, we can expect more supercharged storms like Harvey."
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Last edited by PaceAdvantage; 05-12-2018 at 12:58 PM.
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05-10-2018, 10:44 PM
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Who or what do you think the homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis blamed, when it started getting warmer at the end of their ice age?
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05-10-2018, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by woodbinepmi
Who or what do you think the homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis blamed, when it started getting warmer at the end of their ice age?
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Have we come out of one of those recently?
Must have missed it.
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05-10-2018, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by woodbinepmi
Who or what do you think the homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis blamed, when it started getting warmer at the end of their ice age?
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dinosaurs, so they killed them all to prevent any more....
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05-10-2018, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by davew
dinosaurs, so they killed them all to prevent any more....
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Dinosaur flatulence  .....they had to go. 
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05-11-2018, 01:13 AM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
Have we come out of one of those recently?
Must have missed it.
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No, but it shows that humans may not be the cause of Global Warming or Climate Change (or any other catch phrase they use next) and that the Earth goes thru changes itself. Maybe, they blamed that big orange ball in the sky for it.
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05-11-2018, 04:44 AM
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Climate change had nothing to do with Harvey. Study after study shows disruptive weather declining over time. Trenberth is a leading Alarmist, so this paper was to be expected.
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05-11-2018, 06:30 AM
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There is no trend in overall intensity. Sometimes a storm stalls in the wrong spot. That's called climate, and not cllimate change.
Last edited by PaceAdvantage; 05-12-2018 at 12:59 PM.
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