This is an article from The Guardian.
The author is a Dr. John Abraham who apparently specializes in thermal and fluid sciences and plies his trade at University of St. Thomas School of Engineering, Minnesota. The fella, like a good warrior of Global Warming, could not resist blaming the hurricane and its consequences on people disrespecting his Golden Calf.
I always am suspicious of those experts that cannot get the terminology right or say things just to look cool.
According to NOAA, you know, the people who actually do weather for a living:
Once a tropical cyclone reaches maximum sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or higher, it is then classified as a hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone, depending upon where the storm originates in the world. In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a typhoon.
But name aside, here is his take on why Hurricane Michael came to be so strong:
But basically, Michael strengthened because it passed over really warm waters. Waters that were hotter because of human-caused warming.
So, half a degree (as I have been told) in temperature rise creates these waters in the Gulf and the Caribbean which otherwise would be nice and cool and no hurricanes would come to exists or only very weak ones. It is the Global Warming caused by humans in the last 50 years that is at fault. Of course, you would need to ignore the long list of deadly hurricanes that include too many outside the era of Global warming.
But what I find hilarious is that The Guardian, a British Newspaper would publish this rubbish since it is thanks to those warm waters and the Gulf Current that the British Isles are not locked in a frozen Northern Sea six months (or more) out of the year.
PS: Why are the gulf waters warm? A combination of a shallow bottom and this huge heat emanating thing you can see in the sky: The Sun.
For God’s sakes, this is not a new revolutionary science discovery. Sun heats water and anything exposed to it. There is a reason why you can find sun-blocking lotions in stores.
Wait… wasn’t it Trump’s fault that we get hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones/vortexes/maelstroms, etc. these days? /sarc
Michael wasn’t nearly as strong as other hurricanes the hit Florida or the Gulf Coast. It’s just the strongest to hit where it did in a long time. This was peanuts compared to Andrew.
My favorite consistent false logic in all of this is:
“If we don’t do something today it will be bad in 100 years.”
And
“This is making hurricanes worse tomorrow.”
They shift the cause and effect time frame to make it fit the narrative.
Anybody who implies that if we elected Hillary in 2016, Michael would conclusively not have happened or would not have been a Category 4 is not a scientist, he is an Evangelist.
How dare you blame “typhoons”[sic] on our benevolent source of all goodness, the sacred Sun. Obama saved us from storms like this by signing the Paris accords, Trump caused this by pulling out of them. Hail Sol, Hail Obama.
George Stephanopoulos pulled this global warming bullshit on the air yesterday with a meteorologist on ABC talking about Michael. Even the Hurricane experts dump on this bullshit.
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