Pumphandle 2016
August 31 an outfit called Investors.com under cover of the "Daily Business" wrote an editorial that no one had the guts to put their name behind. Figures since it's such a perfect example of libelous criminal mischief and intellectual vandalism. My initial read indicated some 24 talking points to build my case on.
I believe all too often timid professionally/politically constrained experts give aid and comfort to such deliberate misinformers by their obsessive public focus on fringe uncertainties -> rather than reminding everyone of the geophysical certainties we are dealing with here. This latest example of malicious character assassination against Dr. Mann is an example of what such unrecognized seepage has accomplished these past decades.
Before I begin my slog through that thing, I believe it's important to take a moment to look at the essence of what our planet's Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine is all about. Starting point an unfortunate quote from that editorial:
CNN Newsroom host John Berman asked former National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read point-blank whether climate change had affected the intensity of Hurricane Harvey.
Read said he "probably wouldn't attribute (global warming to) what we're looking at here. This is not an uncommon occurrence to see storms grow and intensify rapidly in the western Gulf of Mexico. That is, as long as we've been tracking them, that has occurred.”
{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Read - Navy meteorologist background.}
For the other side of that: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-more-deadly
Quite frankly it doesn’t matter what I, or some politically terrified official pronounces. The outside reality is that our planet has begun a radical transition towards a much much warmer climate regime. Simply because measuring and putting exact attribution numbers on it is exceedingly difficult, doesn't justify ignoring the geophysics unfolding under our noses!
Quite frankly it doesn’t matter what I, or some politically terrified official pronounces. The outside reality is that our planet has begun a radical transition towards a much much warmer climate regime. Simply because measuring and putting exact attribution numbers on it is exceedingly difficult, doesn't justify ignoring the geophysics unfolding under our noses!
* Global warming is definitely directly related to that hot Gulf of Mexico waters that fed an explosive intensification of a tropical storm.
* Global warming is definitely directly related to the fact that the atmosphere is holding more moisture and making it available for storm systems such as Harvey to collect and dump, while adding energy to the system.
* Global warming is definitely directly related to the fact that our Jet Stream has gotten weirder and is currently causing the stalling and reversal of Harvey’s northward movement.
* Global warming is definitely directly related to the fact that sea level is rising and thus adding substantially to damaging storm surges.
* Global warming is definitely directly related to the "Brown Ocean Effect" that continued feeding moisture and energy into Harvey and certain other hurricanes after making land fall.
If I’m mistaken it should be simple enough to explain my error in a constructive manner.
If you can’t do that, perhaps you should consider allowing those points to take prominence over nitpicking fringe uncertainties and the struggle for statistical perfection.
