Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds (theguardian.com)

Hurricane Harvey swamped Houston with seven days of pounding rain last August. When scientists went back to look at historical weather patterns, they reported Harvey dumped 20 percent more rain than it typically would have. The culprit: climate change. From a report: High-resolution climate simulations of 15 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans found that warming in the ocean and atmosphere increased rainfall by between 5% and 10%, although wind speeds remained largely unchanged. This situation is set to worsen under future anticipated warming, however. Researchers found that if little is done to constrain greenhouse gas emissions and the world warms by 3C to 4C this century then hurricane rainfall could increase by a third, while wind speeds would be boosted by as much as 25 knots.

"Climate change has exacerbated rainfall and is set to enhance the wind speed," said Christina Patricola, who undertook the study with her Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleague Michael Wehner. "My hope is that this information can be used to improve our resilience to the kinds of extreme weather events we are going to have in the future." The research, published in the journal Nature, used climate models to see how factors such as air and ocean temperatures have influenced hurricanes. Projections into the future were then made, based upon various levels of planetary warming. The findings suggest that enormously destructive storms have already been bolstered by climate change and similar events in the future are on course to be cataclysmic.

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Re:Hey look, the denialist faggot trying to obfusc

[Karmashock]

"denalist"

A hyperbolic association between holocaust deniers and people that poke fun at the obvious over the top climate change alarmists.

Do you even Godwin's law, amigo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These are the sorts of silly things that alarmists do that make any kind of productive discussion impossible.

Any reasonable criticism is dismissed by immediately making personal attacks.

And it is pretty telling that you aren't comfortable one the issues if that's all you do. You say mudding the waters of science? What science did you demonstrate there?

You associated someone with the nazis, you without any particular supporting argument questioned my integrity and education, and then you made some appeal to authority by suggesting science was with you.

Do you know what science even is? Go look it up. The underlying philosophical concept and method.

Where in that process does it say "step one, accuse anyone that disagrees with you of being a nazi"... or some other absurd ad hominem that ignores relevant criticism?

Your little post there surrendered any pretense at an intellectual high ground. And to make that matter all the clearer... you don't even realize it... and probably still don't after it was explained to you.