Re: Global Warming: Spring Storm Cancels Flights, Threatens Floods

On Apr 16, 4:34 am, "Patriot Games" <Crazy_Bast...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/15/140050.shtml?s=us

Storm Cancels Flights, Threatens Floods
NewsMax.com Wires Sunday, April 15, 2007

NEW YORK -- Airlines canceled 300 flights Sunday as a hard-blowing
nor'easter gathered strength along the East Coast and threatened to deliver
some of the worst shore flooding in 14 years.

The storm, already blamed for five deaths on the Plains, also flooded people
out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia.

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Not even the extreme AGW folks at RealClimate believe severe storms
are the result of global warming. From

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/a-tale-of-three-interviews/#more-432

Due to Global Warming, one of the predictions for the changes we'd see
is for greater variability in weather due to more energy in the
atmosphere. Hotter hots. Wetter wets. Dryer dries. And even, in
places, colder colds.-Comment by Jeffrey Davis - 9 Apr 2007 @ 7:19 pm



[Response: Actually, I don't think this is a fair statement. There is
evidence for the dry places getting dryer, and wet places getting
wetter - mainly in the tropics and subtropics. And there is evidence
for greater intensity of rainfall events due to increased specific
humidity. Evidence for greater variability per se is much weaker if it
exists at all. What we are seeing this month are extreme excursions of
the jet stream - but in most of the models there is a weak increase in
the 'NAO' pattern, which is actually associated with less winter
variability in the jet stream and reduced extreme cold outbreaks. I am
not aware of any study suggesting that extreme cold events should be
more likely or more extreme. Be careful not to fall into the
contrarian trap of blaming everything (and therefore explaining
nothing) on global warming.... - gavin]


- A. McIntire



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