Monday, June 03, 2019

Tornadoes, hurricanes and climate change

The USA seems to be having a lot of problematic weather lately - floods and tornadoes mainly.

Roy Spencer has been going for years about how people are wrong to think that climate change is making tornadoes worse - he talks about the wind shear component that should decrease as the atmosphere warms.   And I see that he has another go this year at pooh-poohing the idea that this year's high number is due to climate change (at Fox News, of course.) 

But mainstream climate scientists think the story is more complicated, and suspect that climate change is having some effect on tornadoes - although they admit this is a very difficult thing to study given their nature.

Here's a balanced article about it:   Is climate change fuelling tornadoes?   Some climate scientists are quoted, and the conclusions are:
Many of them pointed out that it can be tough to detect tornado trends because comprehensive records only go back a few decades and there's a lot of variability in tornado activity year to year. But they said some shifts are starting to show: while tornado intensity doesn't appear to have changed, there are more days with multiple tornadoes now, and there may be a shift in which regions are especially prone to tornadoes.
Even if future storms in a higher temperature don't spawn more tornadoes, there will likely be more damaging severe storms anyway:
 More broadly, Brooks said, researchers are looking at severe storm development, because even without tornadoes, giant thunderstorms can produce damaging hail and destructive winds. There's a robust signal that global warming will make the atmosphere more likely to spawn such storms.
 And the wandering jet stream is not off the hook, too:
Prolonged tornado outbreaks also could potentially be linked with global warming through a jet stream pattern that is becoming more frequent and that keeps extreme weather patterns locked in place, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research scientist Stefan Rahmstorf suggested on Twitter
Speaking of wind shear, I also see a recent paper on research indicating climate change may lead to more rapidly intensifying hurricanes (as well as wetter ones.)   

1 comment:

GMB said...

What causes hurricanes and adverse weather events? Traditionally we have been lead to believe that this came out of luke warm weather. Which is completely ridiculous. Energy doesn't go from being spread out like that and become focused. The official story violates every known principle we have of energy. What is really going on here is that there is a big voltage difference between the ionosphere and the deep earth. This is the earths electrical field. There is a big voltage difference between the corona of the sun and the deep earth for that matter. The solar wind is ITSELF an electrical current. Electricity being the movement of electrons or ions.

You have seen those Dyson fans that have no actual propeller. They drive wind through the fan by electrical means only. Thats how the wind works and the oligarchy must have winced when that little invention came out because its giving the game away. The voltage difference has to work its way out down through the atmosphere and these storms are how this is done. There is no way that CO2 levels, when we are talking about CO2 as a trace gas, can have any effect on the hurricanes, storms and cyclones. Because that tiny amount of difference, can have no electrical effect, when CO2, the other gases, and the aether itself are not good conductors. Is CO2 a much better or worse conductor then O2 or Nitrogen? I don't think anyone's asked and I don't think there is much of a contest in it. They are all as useless as each-other when it comes to conducting electricity.

But there is a difference with water vapour and water suspended in the air. And there is a difference with IONISED air molecules. HAARP has been using these difference these last 20 years to manipulate storms and direct hurricanes. Storms are now used by the oligarchy for various destructive reasons. So we can no longer look at the data and make many inferences in that way when the weather is being weaponised and controlled.