Global Warming Is Expected to Raise Hurricane Intensity

[fireandrain]

Found this article today in the NY Times.

Global warming is likely to produce a significant increase in the intensity and rainfall of hurricanes in coming decades, according to the most comprehensive computer analysis done so far.

By the 2080's, seas warmed by rising atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases could cause a typical hurricane to intensify about an extra half step on the five-step scale of destructive power, says the study, done on supercomputers at the Commerce Department's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J. And rainfall up to 60 miles from the core would be nearly 20 percent more intense.

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[reality]

...and the subject wouldn't have even come up if Florida wasn't taking a pounding (prove it's not a coincidence) this year. If you've read "Chaos", you would find it hard to believe the batting of a butterflies wings in China could cause catastrophic weather elsewhere in the world. There is just too much static friction in the atmosphere.

This is not to say CO2 in relatively large quantities couldn't initiate trouble.

Mathematicians, are such twits!

[debs]

Originally Posted by reality

...and the subject wouldn't have even come up if Florida wasn't taking a pounding (prove it's not a coincidence) this year.

Oh sure, popular pulp journalism vs. well posed supercomputer model runs in peer reviewed scientific journals.