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POPSIs climate change boosting hurricanes? What it tells us, says Mooney, is that the link between climate change and hurricanes is complicated. As he emphasizes again and again, “global warming did not cause Hurricane Katrina, or any other weather disaster.” On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century’s hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.
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POPSSnow? In Australia?!? More freakish weather...and not a snowflake in sight here where it should be. Here in the country where I live at the moment, we've only had below freezing temps two nights in ALL! Just read, that here it's been/is the hottest winter on record EVER! No global warming some say? Yeah right!! Tell it to the Easter Bunny!
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POPSNew study predicts long-term worsening weather
New study finds an ongoing recent trend towards increasing numbers of "extreme weather events" (droughts, storms, heat waves), accompanied by high levels of human suffering and economic damage, and predicts this trend will accelerate in the coming decades. From the source (p. 2): While global warming studies always have their critics, it’s not easy to dismiss these findings. They’re based on nine different climate-change models developed by leading scientists in four countries: France, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Each one is processed by supercomputers, crunching millions of data points on variables like surface temperatures, ocean currents, winds, solar radiation, volcanic eruptions and rainforest destruction. Each one takes months to perform. “The fact that all nine produced remarkably consistent agreement gives us a lot of confidence in the results,” says Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University, another of the study’s authors.
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