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A 'Nightmare' for Forecasters: Here's Why Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Faster
Early on Monday, Hurricane Ian was a tropical storm with heavy rain and winds of at least 73 mph. But experts say the storm is gaining power rapidly and, if recent history is any guide, it could intensify dangerously as it nears Cuba as soon as Monday night. As Earth’s climate warms, more storms...www.yahoo.com
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yes I did...................
Don't swallow a bit of it.
Just using my own observations. I see things changing for the worse all around me.
I'll probably get ridiculed for that answer - but - it is what it is.
and I'd take NASA over Strossle any day:
A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate - NASA Science
We've broken down everything you need to know about hurricanes, how scientists are using global climate models to predict storm intensity, and how climate change is having an impact.
Hurricanes and Climate Change: Everything You Need to Know
The most widespread, damaging storms on earth are getting worse, and climate change is a big reason why. Here’s a look at what causes hurricanes and how to address the threat of a wetter, windier world.www.nrdc.org
see you can pretty much find anything to support your position
I also saw NOAA lending some credence to the affect climate change is having on the weather. I too was a denier regarding climate change but after the events of this past summer - I found it hard to keep denying it.
- Half of Europe & the West Coast on fire.
- Drought everywhere. We had no rain here on the Shore for two & half months. That normally only takes place for most of August.
- Rivers, lakes & reservoirs drying up both here & Europe. Germany had to keep dredging the Rhine in order for boat traffic to make it through.
- Weeks of 90 degree temperatures or higher.
In my mind it's happening & we REALLY need to take some strong action to mitigate it as painful as that may be. The more we deny it - the more difficult it's going to be to stop it.
Let's just agree to disagree.
Would be nice to see if they had CO2 ppm data from glacial core samples from the Rockies and the Andes to see if these were lower, while data from Alpine and Himalayan glaciers had higher CO2 levels. This observation of regional fluctuation would prove their hypothesis, if these data were the same worldwide, it renders their data as "interesting, but not definitive".Many thing can and have affected the climate over the eons...I watched a show last night on how the decimation of the natives in the Americas contributed to the little ice age
‘Great Dying’ in Americas disturbed Earth’s climate
1 February 2019
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate, according to a new study by UCL.
The research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, reveals the scale of disruption that followed Columbus’ ‘discovery’ of the Americas in 1492.
Over the 100 years after European arrival, the indigenous population of the Americas dropped from 60 million to only 6 million, due to waves of epidemics, warfare and famine.
The new research, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, suggests that this led to a regrowth of forests and a reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, which in turn contributed to the Earth’s cooling.
“The Great Dying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas led to the abandonment of enough cleared land that the resulting terrestrial carbon uptake had a detectable impact on both atmospheric CO2 and global surface air temperatures,” said lead study author PhD candidate Alexander Koch (UCL Geography).
The ‘Great Dying’ was triggered by the arrival of Europeans and the introduction of new pathogens to the continent. Together, with warfare and slavery, there was an epidemic of diseases such as smallpox, measles, influenza and cholera.
The scientists report that as the population plummeted, land was abandoned and farming ceased causing natural vegetation to grow back.
Scientists believe that the changes to land use led to a lowering of CO2 levels sufficient enough that the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere eventually fell by 7-10ppm.
This coincides with the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period between about 1300 and 1870 during which time many parts of the world dipped into cooler temperatures. In the 16th century global temperatures were at their lowest points.
“There is a marked cooling around the 1500s/1600s which is called the ‘Little Ice Age’, and what's interesting is that we can see natural processes giving a little bit of cooling, but actually to get the full cooling you need to have this genocide-generated drop in CO2”, said co-author, Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography).
The team analysed existing evidence for indigenous populations using seven geographical regions across the Americas including the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Inca Territory. They investigated population size and land use evidence in both the 14th and 15th century and compared this with potential natural drivers of global carbon declines.
Dr Chris Brierley (UCL Geography), co-author of the study, said: “What we see from this study is the scale of what's required to mitigate climate change. The Great Dying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested and that gave us only a few ppm. This shows reforestation can help tackle future climate change, but only up to a point.”
| Event | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Homeric Minimum[8] | 950 BC | 800 BC |
| Roman Warm Period | 250 BC | AD 400 |
| Medieval maximum 1 (see Medieval Warm Period) | 950 | 1040 |
| Oort minimum (see Medieval Warm Period) | 1040 | 1080 |
| Medieval maximum 2 (see Medieval Warm Period) | 1100 | 1250 |
| Wolf minimum | 1280 | 1350 |
| Spörer Minimum | 1450 | 1550 |
| Maunder Minimum | 1645 | 1715 |
| Dalton Minimum | 1790 | 1820 |
| Modern Maximum | 1914 | 2008 |
| Solar Cycle 24 | Solar Cycle 25 | |
|---|---|---|
| ≥75 | 102 | 185 |
| ≥100 | 51 | 88 |
| ≥125 | 21 | 42 |
| ≥150 | 4 | 10 |
| ≥175 | 2 | 0 |
The little ice age affected mainly Europe and the Americas both of which had a massive human kill off due to plague in Europe and mainly small pox in the Americas. Yes the CO2 levels is key.
Know all about the Little Ice Age. They made a very, large and encompassing claim. Just curious if they could provide data to back up the new world part of that claim.
check this out
FIRST, and most importantly, Climate Change because of man-induced CO2 increase is REAL, the Little Ice Age is a fact, and the atrocities committed during the colonization and conquest of the Americas is a horrid example of genocide by all involved. However this study only presents circumstantial evidence to tie things together. This "study" was published back in 2019 and was greeted by the strict scientific community with the enthusiasm as a fart in church...check this out
‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study
By John Hadden Global News
Posted February 6, 2019 4:50 pm
Updated February 6, 2019 5:12 pm
According to the study, a spike in plant life was responsible for up to 67 per cent of a significant drop in carbon dioxide levels between 1520 and 1610. Carbon had been transferred from the atmosphere to the land surface through photosynthesis.
Previously cored Antarctic ice samples were investigated. Researchers observed that 7.4 petagrams — or 7-billion metric tonnes — of carbon had suddenly disappeared at that point in time.
‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study - National | Globalnews.ca
Yes, get ice cores from New World glaciers (Rockies and Andes) and Old World (Alps & Himalayans) and do the CO2 analyses. Very simple, but probably would have entailed new samples instead of just data mining the published Antarctic database.
