Comments on: Rise in weather extremes linked to climate change, say scientists

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:30:00 +0000

““Extremely warm summers that would occur twice in a century in the early 2000s are now expected to happen twice a decade,” Dr Christidis says”

I wonder how many centuries there were in the early 2000s… lol

By: Climate Home

Climate Home — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:56:00 +0000

In reply to Get to Work People.

Hi – check the comments policy (above) and this may explain why your comments are not making it past the moderators.
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By: mbee1

mbee1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:21:00 +0000

According to the inter insurance people, the insurance companies of the insurance companies , weather related events are down from average two years running. The numbers in this study are just horse manure , estimates that do not reflect the actual events. It has not even been warming for at least 16 years per the IPCC, they call it a slowing. What these people have done is look around find a bump in the statistics and than pretend that is the whole of existence. That is junk science.

By: Kurt Kuzba

Kurt Kuzba — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:58:00 +0000

Is this going to be like the one about how the annual tropic water vapor plume is so huge that it cannot get beyond the sea and creates a tropical depression or storm because the world is too warm and not because that is all the farther that the water vapor can manage to be transported by the force of thermal and vapor expansion available in tropical waters against the cold and thin atmosphere that is drying out the land and has been for thousands of years, which creates localized warming due to loss of heat sink and evaporative cooling inland?
Because that was pretty funny.

By: Nancy Wilson

Nancy Wilson — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:27:00 +0000

Although last winter did set awareness back, I personally believe the arguments will soon be over, because man is heating the planet daily and changing the natural environment at every moment all over the globe now.

By: Get to Work People

Get to Work People — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:46:00 +0000

I have posted a couple of basic comments and they just get deleted. I guess the 1st Amendment doesn’t matter here.

By: SayWhat

SayWhat — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:16:00 +0000

Even the IPCC says there is no increase in extremes.

AR5, chapter 2:

“Page 219:
“Overall, the most robust global changes in climate extremes are seen in measures of daily temperature, including to some extent, heat waves.
Precipitation extremes also appear to be increasing, but there is large spatial
variability”

“There is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century”

Page 216:
“Section 14.6.1 discusses changes in tropical storms in detail. Current
data sets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone
frequency over the past century and it remains uncertain whether any reported long-term increases in tropical cyclone frequency are robust”

“No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and
major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in
the North Atlantic basin.”

“In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems.”

Page 214:
“In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low
confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or
frequency of floods on a global scale.”

Page 162:
“Confidence is low for a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century, owing to lack of direct
observations, methodological uncertainties and geographical inconsistencies in the trends”

Page 220:
“In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme
extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low. There is also low confidence
for a clear trend in storminess proxies over the last century”