Economic Impact Of Hurricanes

[Pittsburgh Pete]

So Pete, have you discovered that there is no cause and effect between human greenhouse gas emissions and storms or storm intensity?

Ah, poor Randy--his fragile ego won't allow him to admit he is wrong. Were you picked on in high school?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/climate-change-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma/index.html

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Ah, poor Randy--his fragile ego won't allow him to admit he is wrong. Were you picked on in high school?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/climate-change-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma/index.html

"And no, changes in our planet's atmosphere did not cause Hurricanes Harvey or Irma."

Same old stuff Pete. Human emissions don't cause storms, the claim is human emissions make storms worse. By how much? Who knows, claim it so and watch who believes it with out proof (cause and effect).

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

Have repeatedly maintained that climate change didn't "cause" the storms but it did contribute to their increased intensity. You refuse to have that register in your brain and keep coming back with that contention. You are hilarious. Sorry your fragile ego won't allow you to admit the obvious.

You were definitely picked on sometime--that much his obvious.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Have repeatedly maintained that climate change didn't "cause" the storms but it did contribute to their increased intensity.

Yep, and you can't say anything about how much increase there is. Furthermore, no climate scientist is saying that this increasing hurricane intensity applies to all storms, land and sea. It only applies to hurricanes. I find that very strange, don't you?

Now we have hurricane Jose. How much worse has this storm intensified relative to Harvey and Irma?

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

Looks like someone is starting to see the light!

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php

addresses all "weather" events. You won't like the conclusion.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php

addresses all "weather" events. You won't like the conclusion.

Storms feed off of latent heat, which is why scientists think global warming is strengthening storms. Extra heat in the atmosphere or ocean nourishes storms; the more heat energy that goes in, the more vigorously a weather system can churn.

So according to this statement, Pete, scientists think global warming is strengthening storms. And it is everywhere on earth.

Not very definitive, is it?

This chart would contradict what is posted on that website as far as making storm intensity worse, you will note where Irma and Harvey rate:

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

Cherry pick to your heart's content. You're still wrong!!

You probably still think that the last inaugural had the largest crowd in history and that 3-4 million illegals voted in the election!

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Cherry pick to your heart's content. You're still wrong!!

What? No rebuttal about how much storms worldwide have increased in intensity? Come on Pete, don't you understand the sentence NASA put in your article?

Storms feed off of latent heat, which is why scientists think global warming is strengthening storms. Extra heat in the atmosphere or ocean nourishes storms; the more heat energy that goes in, the more vigorously a weather system can churn.



So these climate scientists have an opinion, a belief, an idea about human emissions and storm intensities. They can't prove it as in cause and effect or correlate it as in a statistical quantification, just more of a fear, an emotion, a funny feeling they can't really show.

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

They're thinking (quite logically) and not denying arising from a bruised ego!!!!