“Contrary to the impression favored by governments, the corner has not been turned toward declining emissions and GHG amounts…. Negative CO2 emissions, i. e., extraction of CO2 from the air, is now required.” – James Hansen, “Young People’s Burden.” October 4, 2016. “The ponderous response of the climate system also means that we don’t need to instantaneously reduce GHG amounts.” – James Hansen, “We Hold Truths to be Self-Evident“ December 2, 2016.
ponderous response....or is the problem for nutters there is only random correlation between man made co2 and warming.
Dec 5, 12:06 PM EST STUDY: WARMING TO TRIGGER 3 TIMES AS MANY DOWNPOURS IN US WASHINGTON (AP) -- Extreme downpours - like those that flooded Louisiana, Houston and West Virginia earlier this year - will happen nearly three times as often in the United States by the end of the century, and six times more frequently in parts of the Mississippi Delta, according to a new study. Scientists have long pointed out that warmer air holds more moisture, so man-made climate change will increase the frequency of extreme downpours. That increase has already started , they say, but new work with much stronger computer simulations shows just how bad it will get, and where. The high-resolution computer simulation - about 25 times better than other computer models - projects at least a fivefold increase in downpours in the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast and Southwest, according to a study in Monday's journal Nature Climate Change . Study lead author Andreas Prein, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research , said the entire U.S. will average a 180 percent increase in these types of downpours by 2100. The Midwest and parts of the West Coast are expected to see the smallest increases. Previous projections haven't been as detailed because they could not take into consideration small scale weather events like thunderstorms. The new computer simulations can, Prein said. He looked at the type of thunderstorms that are in the top one half of 1 percent of rainmakers. "It's much more likely that you'll get hit by very strong thunderstorms, very strong downpours in the future climate," Prein said. "What this means in the future is you might have a much higher potential for flash floods. This can have really big impacts." Outside experts praised the study. "The paper elegantly shows why these heavy downpours increase in frequency when the air is moist but decrease when the air is dry," said Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field. "With high warming through the century, this paper projects that most of the U.S. (gets) scary increases in the frequency of downpours." ---
On a positive note, it looks like, along with being beautiful, Ivanka Trump is a smart cookie. And it's fair to say that she has Donald's ear. Al Gore: Ivanka Trump Concerned About Climate Change Former Vice President Al Gore came away from his meeting with Ivanka Trump encouraged by her interest in using her platform as first daughter to promote policies to combat climate change. "It's no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world," Gore said on MSNBC on Monday night, after meeting first with Trump and then her father, President-elect Donald Trump. "That was certainly evident in the conversation that I had with her before the conversation with the president-elect," he said. "I appreciate the fact that she's very concerned about this." http://www.usnews.com/news/politics...e-ivanka-trump-concerned-about-climate-change
Just waiting for the Trump tweet on getting rid of the despicable climate.nasa.gov website and firing the graduate students maintaining it.