Global Warming Linked to Stronger Storms

Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, led a panel on Global Warming and it's effect on Tropical Weather activity at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. The overall conclusion is that Global Warming is contributing to the formation of the massively destructive storms we have seen over the past few years.

Some of the quotes from the conference:

"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now,"

The warmer water conditions that created last year's monster storms are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."

"What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change," "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases."

Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date -- about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water -- is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.

Let's see what kind of lysenkoist nonsense our idiot in chief tries to throw in front of this one.

Comments

[Jose]

How about the whole story idiot.

"His conclusion will be debated throughout the week-long conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth."

[Jonah]

I'm sorry but I disagree with Dr. Gray and the other scientists that are bullied by the Bush doctrine.

If we don't do something to curb our behaviour it will be too late. It may already be too late.

Call me an idiot if you want, in this case I wish I were wrong.

[jose]

My reaction was not to your position on the subject it was your selective headline. As for calling you idiot that was because of your intemperance when referring to Bush. You may not agree with anything about him but he certainly is not an idiot.

It is interesting that scientists that have a different view are catorgorized as "bullied by the Bush doctrine" whatever that is.

A spoonful of humility would go a long way.

Not sure how old you are but when I was going to college the crisis on the left was 1) over-population with most of us starving by now and 2) we were headed for an ice age.

Gives you pause doesn't it.

[Jonah]

Jose, the only thing that gives me pause is your insistence that Bush is anything but an idiot.

Also, mentioning humility while trying to defend the environmental policy of the right is fucking laughable.

Take your fan-club elsewhere.