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[ClimateSignals] Tentative climate change link to record breaking spree of ...: For example, the record-breaking “once in one thousand years” rains that drove the recent Nashville flood is part of the long-term trend of increasing heavy precipitation events in the Southeastern United States that has been fully documented and firmly attributed to climate change. While one cannot say with certainly that event was "caused" by climate change, one can and should say it is linked to climate change.

[Ecocentric] Climate Change, Weather and a Possibly Record-Breaking Month For ...: In order for tornadoes to form, several factors have to combine in just the right way. These ingredients include: a warm and humid atmosphere, strong jet stream winds, and atmospheric wind shear (winds that vary with speed and/or direction with height), as well as a mechanism to ignite this volatile mixture of ingredients - such as a cold front.

[Outer Banks Common Ground] Climate Change Will Bring More Extreme Precipitation and Floods ...: The study suggests that record-breaking downpours, blizzards and sleet storms will continue””though by how much and how soon remain a mystery. The U.K.’s Met Office, the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners aim to bridge that knowledge gap by making regular assessments””much like present evaluations of global average temperatures””of how much a given season’s extreme weather is from human influence.

[Ecocentric] It's Not Clear What Role Climate Change Played in Record-Breaking ...: In any case, focusing on global warming misses the more important point. Tornadoes, hurricanes and floods will happen, and perhaps climate change will make them worse.

[Climate Progress] Tornadoes, extreme weather, and climate change « Climate Progress: As I said many times on the Weekend Open Thread and other posts beginning with the Master’s post on April 27 (the day the tornadoes hit), the problem is the same as the one hydrologists have with seeing flood increases, which long-time head of hydrology for the USGS Robert M. Hirsch said isn’t happening: They’re looking at mostly 20th Century data and not seeing any or much shift, when the trend shift during the 21st Century will probably be immense with up to 6 degrees C increase and 40% more water vapor, or the equivalent to 15 Lake Superiors of additional water vapor in the atmosphere as well as energy added to the system that is the equivalent to the output from almost 2 million nuclear power plants.

[Fangaroo] Is climate change behind those killer storms? Foxheads eagerly ...: Those are exactly the kind of tornadoes that would have been missed by meteorologists in the days before the Weather Channel and Doppler radar””scientists today would almost never miss an actual tornado touchdown, no matter how brief or weak. That makes it very difficult for researchers to even be sure that the actual number of tornadoes is on the rise, let alone, if they are, what might be causing it.

[WWF - Environmental News] WWF - Record breaking year for climate: In the Indonesian capital of Jarkata, torrential rainfall in February 2007 led to one of the worst floods in its history. The flooding displaced 400,000 inhabitants, caused numerous outbreaks of disease and cost the economy US$450 million.

[2 The Point Music Blog] Breaking News: The Climate Actually Changes! - 2 The Point Music Blog: And while global warming has been trumpeted as an epic climate change crisis with human-produced CO2, a trace atmospheric “greenhouse gas” branded as a primary culprit and endangering “pollutant”, don’t be too sure about the veracity of those pitches. Throughout earlier periods of Earth’s history those levels have been many times higher than today, with temperature changes preceding ”” not following ”” atmospheric CO2 changes.

[FarmPolicy] Biofuels; Regulations; Climate - FarmPolicy.com: “The planned explosions this week to ease the Mississippi River flooding threatening the town of Cairo, Ill., appear to have succeeded ”” but their effect on the farmland, where wheat, corn and soybeans are grown, could take months or even years to become clear. The Missouri Farm Bureau said the damage will likely exceed $100 million for this year alone.”

[One Citizen Speaking...] Global warming: Re-floating climate myths and other projections on ...: . The remaining ice is almost entirely at the north and south poles and is isolated from warmer weather. To melt the ice of Greenland and Antarctica would take thousands of years under any realistic change in climate. In the case of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which accounts for 80% of the Earth's current ice, Sudgen argues that it existed for 14,000,000 years, through wide ranges in global climate. The IPCC 2001 report states "Thresholds for disintegration of the East Antarctic ice sheet by surface melting involve warmings above 20° C... In that case, the ice sheet would decay over a period of at least 10,000 years." The IPCC is the United Nations' scientific committee on climate change;

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