Hurricane Florence is human caused climate change with a vengeance

Fogdog

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Hurricane Florence reminds us that ignoring the science of climate change will hurt us

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...g-science-climate-change-will-hurt-ncna908881

Human activity has created the potential for stronger storms. We already know what to do about it, but keep choosing not to.

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States that strongly supported the Science Denier in Chief are going to get a good soaking.

After enduring three major hurricanes — Harvey, Maria, and Irma — in a few short weeks last fall, our nation is once again watching a monster storm churn its way toward our coastline. This time, the Carolina coast (which has not had a strike from a Category 4 storm since 1989) is in the bull’s-eye of Florence, which is predicted to bring life-threatening surge and damaging winds to the coast before stalling and dumping feet of rain on inland areas throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

With each new storm, we are forced to question whether this is our new, climate change-fueled reality, and to ask ourselves what we can do to minimize the toll from supercharged storms.

Can crackers and hillbillies learn from the direct evidence of science's accurate prediction by watching their TV's along with their trailers wash away down the crik?
 
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warmi...warming-rain-snow-tornadoes.html#.W5l9waZKiUk

What is the relationship between global warming, climate, and weather?
Weather is what’s happening outside the door right now; today a thunderstorm is approaching. Climate, on the other hand, is the pattern of weather measured over a number of decades.

Over the past 30 years there has been a pattern of increasingly higher average temperatures for the whole world. In fact, the first decade of this century (2001–2010) was the hottest decade recorded since reliable records began in the late 1800s.

These rising temperatures—caused primarily by an increase of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere created when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses—are what we refer to as global warming.

One consequence of global warming is an increase in both ocean evaporation into the atmosphere, and the amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold. High levels of water vapor in the atmosphere in turn create conditions more favorable for heavier precipitation in the form of intense rain and snow storms.

The United States is already experiencing more intense rain and snow storms.
As the Earth warms, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States—almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.

In other words, the heaviest storms have very recently become even heavier.

The Northeast has seen a 74 percent increase in the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest storms.

As storms increase in intensity, flooding becomes a larger concern.
Flash floods, which pose the most immediate risks for people, bridges and roads, and buildings on floodplains, result in part from this shift toward more extreme precipitation in a warming world.

Regions previously thought to be safe from floods are increasingly threatened by them; agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the US Geological Survey (USGS), among others, are working to gather information that can be used to redraw flood maps to help anticipate vulnerable areas.



Their research found that Texas had the largest number of fatalities from flash floods and river floods over the study period. When standardized for population, South Dakota, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Montana had the highest numbers of fatalities from flooding per 100,000 people. Those between the ages of 10 and 29 and those over 60 years old were disproportionately at risk.In 2008 two scientists, Sharon Ashley and Walker Ashley, of Northern Illinois University, analyzed flood fatalities between 1959 and 2005 in the mainland United States, excluding those from Hurricane Katrina.
 
The title was my first thought when I saw the hurricane. A few weeks ago, the main street of my childhood hometown flooded. It was unbelievable. I don’t think that has ever happened since I have been alive.
 
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dandyrandy said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ence-on-sea-levels-so-passed-a-law-against-it
Click to expand...

coffee/screen

yup that's them..try working for these people. you think trump is crazytown?

The legislation drew ridicule, including a mocking segment by comedian Stephen Colbert, who said: “If your science gives you a result you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.”

“Currently the unspoken plan is to wait until the situation is catastrophic and then respond.” (which btw puts undo burden on other states and federal governments)

+rep:clap:

look at all those telephone poles right next to ocean = WEEKS no electric.

we have everything underground and still lose power for a week depending on how mangled the power grid got.
 
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