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Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily — NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
02 Sep 2007 11:59:22 PM |
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F--- NASA and their lying, public-trough slopping scumbags.
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
01 Sep 2007 12:07:39 AM |
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On Sep 1, 2:06 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predictshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
01 Sep 2007 12:20:35 AM |
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:07:39 -0700, PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
On Sep 1, 2:06 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predictshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
Thermo Anchor?
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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02 Sep 2007 08:17:29 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:07:39 -0700, PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
On Sep 1, 2:06 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predictshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
Thermo Anchor?
Coldest place on Earth temperature is being raised. Whats going to
anchor us onces its gone?
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
02 Sep 2007 10:28:39 PM |
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On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:17:29 -0700, PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:07:39 -0700, PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
On Sep 1, 2:06 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predictshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
Thermo Anchor?
Coldest place on Earth temperature is being raised. Whats going to
anchor us onces its gone?
Another guy who don't understand convection.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
05 Sep 2007 07:15:20 PM |
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On Sep 3, 3:28 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:17:29 -0700, PerfectlyAble <j...@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:07:39 -0700, PerfectlyAble <j...@kol.co.nz>
wrote:
On Sep 1, 2:06 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Date: August 31, 2007
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predictshttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm
Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model
that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may
become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will
be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have
attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The
model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies by
researchers Tony Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao, and Jeff Jonas is the first
to successfully simulate the observed difference in strength between
land and ocean storms and is the first to estimate how the strength
will change in a warming climate, including "severe thunderstorms"
that also occur with significant wind shear and produce damaging winds
at the ground.
This information can be derived from the temperatures and humidities
predicted by a climate computer model, according to the new study
published on August 17 in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical
Research Letters. It predicts that in a warmer climate, stronger and
more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall.
Global computer models represent weather and climate over regions
several hundred miles wide. The models do not directly simulate
thunderstorms and lightning. Instead, they evaluate when conditions
are conducive to the outbreak of storms of varying strengths. This
model first was tested against current climate conditions. It was
found to represent major known global storm features including the
prevalence of lightning over tropical continents such as Africa and,
to a lesser extent, the Amazon Basin, and the near absence of
lightning in oceanic storms.
The model then was applied to a hypothetical future climate with
double the current carbon dioxide level and a surface that is an
average of 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the current climate. The
study found that continents warm more than oceans and that the
altitude at which lightning forms rises to a level where the storms
are usually more vigorous.
These effects combine to cause more of the continental storms that
form in the warmer climate to resemble the strongest storms we
currently experience.
Lightning produced by strong storms often ignites wildfires in dry
areas. Researchers have predicted that some regions would have less
humid air in a warmer climate and be more prone to wildfires as a
result. However, drier conditions produce fewer storms. "These
findings may seem to imply that fewer storms in the future will be
good news for disastrous western U.S. wildfires," said Tony Del Genio,
lead author of the study and a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York. "But drier conditions near the ground
combined with higher lightning flash rates per storm may end up
intensifying wildfire damage instead."
The central and eastern areas of the United States are especially
prone to severe storms and thunderstorms that arise when strong
updrafts combine with horizontal winds that become stronger at higher
altitudes. This combination produces damaging horizontal and vertical
winds and is a major source of weather-related casualties. In the
warmer climate simulation there is a small class of the most extreme
storms with both strong updrafts and strong horizontal winds at higher
levels that occur more often, and thus the model suggests that the
most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common with
warming.
The prediction of stronger continental storms and more lightning in a
warmer climate is a natural consequence of the tendency of land
surfaces to warm more than oceans and for the freezing level to rise
with warming to an altitude where lightning-producing updrafts are
stronger. These features of global warming are common to all models,
but this is the first climate model to explore the ramifications of
the warming for thunderstorms.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
Thermo Anchor?
Coldest place on Earth temperature is being raised. Whats going to
anchor us onces its gone?
Another guy who don't understand convection.
Non Seq.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
01 Sep 2007 02:40:07 PM |
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PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz> wrote:
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
The south pole is 46 F colder than the north pole. It isn't going to
melt. The North pole averages 3 meters thick and 90% of it is floating
ice. It won't raise ocean levels much at all by melting.
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
02 Sep 2007 08:15:24 PM |
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the_blogologist wrote:
PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz> wrote:
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
The south pole is 46 F colder than the north pole. It isn't going to
melt. The North pole averages 3 meters thick and 90% of it is floating
ice. It won't raise ocean levels much at all by melting.
Thermo heat sink, gone, the refridgerator of the world turned off.
The fully declared cold nonrenewable resources (for millions of years)
used up by burning off the millions year old nonrenewable (for
millions
of years) hydrocarbon resources. Yeah, bad bad bad.
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| User: "the_blogologist" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
02 Sep 2007 09:55:37 PM |
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PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz> wrote:
the_blogologist wrote:
PerfectlyAble <jrhw@kol.co.nz> wrote:
When the polar ice has melted a huge global thermo
anchor to our weather will have been removed.
The south pole is 46 F colder than the north pole. It isn't going to
melt. The North pole averages 3 meters thick and 90% of it is floating
ice. It won't raise ocean levels much at all by melting.
Thermo heat sink, gone, the refridgerator of the world turned off.
Since the globe is warming at 1/200 th of a degree F per year, we've got
some time.
The fully declared cold nonrenewable resources (for millions of years)
used up by burning off the millions year old nonrenewable (for
millions of years) hydrocarbon resources. Yeah, bad bad bad.
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
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| User: "Governor Swill" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
02 Sep 2007 11:36:41 PM |
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle. Think of all that coal as sunlight captured by plants
and turned into organic compound which are then buried. We are, in a
very real sense, adding "sunlight" to the atmosphere by releasing
solar energy stored underground over tens of millions of years.
Swill
--
Money isn't always dollars, but dollars are always money.
Picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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| User: "the_blogologist" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
03 Sep 2007 08:05:15 PM |
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Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle. Think of all that coal as sunlight captured by plants
and turned into organic compound which are then buried. We are, in a
very real sense, adding "sunlight" to the atmosphere by releasing
solar energy stored underground over tens of millions of years.
Swill
When you "dumb it down", you're not supposed to make it stupid.
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| User: "Governor Swill" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
04 Sep 2007 02:01:50 AM |
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:05:15 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
It's a cycle. Think of all that coal as sunlight captured by plants
and turned into organic compound which are then buried. We are, in a
very real sense, adding "sunlight" to the atmosphere by releasing
solar energy stored underground over tens of millions of years.
Swill
When you "dumb it down", you're not supposed to make it stupid.
It's not like they're smart enough to get it anyway.
Swill
--
Money isn't always dollars, but dollars are always money.
Picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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| User: "kT" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASAPredicts |
03 Sep 2007 01:46:27 AM |
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Governor Swill wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle.
Can you please dumb it down farther, nobody can understand you.
--
Get A Free Orbiter Space Flight Simulator :
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
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| User: "Governor Swill" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
03 Sep 2007 11:00:59 AM |
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On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:46:27 -0500, kT <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote:
Governor Swill wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle.
Can you please dumb it down farther, nobody can understand you.
We do what we can.
Swill
--
Money isn't always dollars, but dollars are always money.
Picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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| User: "kT" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASAPredicts |
03 Sep 2007 11:01:34 AM |
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Governor Swill wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:46:27 -0500, kT <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote:
Governor Swill wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle.
Can you please dumb it down farther, nobody can understand you.
We do what we can.
In other words, you can't dumb it down any more.
That's low.
--
Get A Free Orbiter Space Flight Simulator :
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts |
03 Sep 2007 01:08:15 PM |
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On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:01:34 -0500, kT <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote:
Governor Swill wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:46:27 -0500, kT <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote:
Governor Swill wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700,
(the_blogologist) wrote:
All that CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere used to be in the
atmosphere. Those coal fields are ancient plants. Oil is ancient sea
sediment. More CO2 in the air means plants grow faster and in more
places, making life for the poorest farmers better. Your worries are
founded in corporate profits, not science.
It's a cycle.
Can you please dumb it down farther, nobody can understand you.
We do what we can.
In other words, you can't dumb it down any more.
That's low.
Climate for dummies:
It is currently warm. In the future it may get warmer or cooler.
--
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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