Steps could have been taken long ago so that these monster storms might not gain as much energy and the flooding could be contained. Hurricane Harvey barrels toward Texas, threatens catastrophic flooding Hurricane Harvey could make landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast by Friday. The storm is heading for the center of the country's oil-refining industry. U.S. benchmark gasoline prices hit a three-week high on Thursday. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/tropical-storm-harvey-heads-for-texas-may-become-hurricane.html
So hurricanes are because of global warming? They didn't happen until greehouse gases were produced by humans?
So all of the hurricanes in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, many of them stronger, are all associated with "forced human global warming", eh? Enjoy your fantasy.
This particular storm is likely to be a CAT 1. IOW, a fucking thunderstorm. Al and company predicted bigger, stronger and more frequent storms in the gulf after Katrina. That was 12 years ago. What has actually happened? Nothing. Not one fucking storm of substance. Oh, eventually there will be a big ass storm and the alarmists will be running around saying, see, see, we were right. GW Cult has nothing but cherry picked, curve fit data to a already predetermined conclusion. That ain't science, and it shouldn't even be good politics, but we live in a country filled with really stupid people getting dumber by the god damn day, so bullshit sells. Maybe a statue will be upended and fall on some black guy. Now that would be the perfect storm, politically speaking.
Hurricane strikes are decreasing. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml So, since this was your evidence of human forced global warming...I guess I just debunked it with actual data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I will assume you will now never post again about man made global warming...unless of course you're a SCIENCE DENIER? Are you a SCIENCE DENIER? Because you know SCIENCE DENIERS are nutjobs, right?
In a recent poll 97. 3 percent of dems believe in man made global warming and pretend there is science showing man made global warming even when it is explained ot them that there is no peer reviewed science finding that man made co2 causes warming... that is not based on a failed model. And the only recent warming we have had was created by scientists adjusting the data... for instance... look at how they adjusted US and they are doing this all over the world.
What? This is the part I think is relevant of what I said: "storms might not gain as much energy and the flooding could be contained" In other words, we should be seeing hurricanes and typhoon that are much stronger than in recent history because the storms will be going over waters that are on average warmer than the surrounding air. If we had started doing something about it in the early 2000's when it was completely obvious of the MAT warming global trends, we might be further along in renewal energy technology advances , cost reductions, and therefore its universal adoption. Paradoxically, we are seeing fewer storms, but they are of greater intensity. The analysis/study below is three years old. When you add the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 and the beginning of 2017 to this study below, each year is breaking all previous average temperatures with consecutive MAT rises across the globe. New Evidence That Climate Change Is Altering Hurricane Season as You Know It "A new report finds climate change is likely impacting hurricane season in two contradictory ways. The new research was published this week in Nature Climate Change by Florida State georgraphy professor Jim Elsner and Namyoung Kang, deputy director of the National Typhoon Center in South Korea. The study finds that warmer ocean temperatures, caused by climate change, may be fueling stronger hurricanes, while at the same time, creating fewer storms... Earth's temperature has warmed 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit from 1880 to 2012, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. NOAA said average sea-surface temperature across the globe in 2014 was 1.03 degrees above the average during the 20th century -- the highest on record with records dating back to 1880. 2014 was the warmest year across the globe for land and sea surface temperatures in 134 years of records. " https://weather.com/science/environ...ge-study-changing-intensity-number-hurricanes
You seem unhinged, sort of like Trump. Relax and take a deep breath. This amounts to nothing but relatively simple physics and statistical analysis of reams of data. No need to get worked up about it. Save your passion for when you realize just how catastrophically wrong you are, and you become a gladiator to save the planet. We would do no such thing of what you are suggesting if we saw one monster storm. One data point does not a trend make. But we are seeing stronger storms, although paradoxically, fewer of them, from the time records have been kept. See the post two above this one.