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Now, Every Storm is a Climate Change Storm
 Florida Governor Rick Scott has been busy warning millions of people for days now to evacuate their homes, with good reason. But what he won't say, and he won't let any state employee say, is that the sheer power of this storm is directly related to climate change and the effects of a warming planet. And to put it simply, now, every storm is a climate change storm. Matthew shocked storm-watchers last week when it gained energy and grew from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane so quickly that it shattered records. On Tuesday, Matthew weakened into a category 4 storm and slammed Haiti, and even though the storm had weakened, Climate Signals nonetheless reports that it's the most powerful storm to hit Haiti in a generation. As it makes landfall in Florida, Matthew has also broken the record for the longest lived hurricane of its strength in the eastern Caribbean, and it's only hurricane on record to have ever made landfall north of Miami along the east coast of Florida in October. But thanks to climate change, storms like Matthew are becoming more and more severe. As Seth Borenstein wrote at Phys.org recently, Hurricane Matthew is "wet, wild and weird", which is also a great way to describe the planet's climate now that we're clearly seeing the effects of global warming and climate change. The Atlantic's hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to November 30, but the statistical peak is September 10, when ocean temperatures are high and wind shear is low. That's changed now, and climate scientist James Hansen recently published a paper showing that Earth's global temperature right now is comparable only to a time 115,000 years ago, when that warming pushed the sea level up 20 to 30 feet higher than it is today. And as human activity has warmed the planet, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory point out that the oceans have dramatically warmed over the last century because "the ocean absorbs more than 90 percent of the Earth's excess heat increase that is associated with global warming. The observed ocean and atmosphere warming is a result of continuing greenhouse gas emissions." A warmer ocean and a warmer atmosphere means that there's more energy in the ocean and more energy in the atmosphere, and more energy in the ocean and in the atmosphere means more fuel for smaller tropical depressions to quickly grow into powerful superstorms, like Matthew did. Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann told the Huffington Post that "the nearly unprecedented rapid intensification we saw with this storm is favored by warmer oceans and greater ocean heat content." Part of this has to do with the fact that oceans aren't just getting warmer at the surface, they're getting warmer deep below the surface too. |
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- Daniel Ruiz, Capital City Public Charter School.
AND, Has Fukushima Contaminated the Entire Pacific? - Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Daily Take: Now, Every Storm is a Climate Change Storm
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Hour One: Climate Change: God is Really Upset With Rick Scott & Rush Limbaugh...
Hour Two: GOP states ignoring court ruling on voter supression laws, because... The Supreme Court!
Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Article: " 14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)
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Republican Governors Are Attacking Voting Rights... And We Can't Afford To Let Them Win!
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Capitalism... Good For Business, Bad For Hurricane Victims.
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Thom's blog
Now, Every Storm is a Climate Change Storm
Florida Governor Rick Scott has been busy warning millions of people for days now to evacuate their homes, with good reason. But what he won't say, and he won't let any state employee say, is that the sheer power of this storm is directly related to climate change and the effects of a warming planet. And to put it simply, now, every storm is a climate change storm. Matthew shocked storm-watchers last week when it gained energy and grew from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane so quickly that it shattered records. On Tuesday, Matthew weakened into a category 4 storm and slammed Haiti, and even though the storm had weakened, Climate Signals nonetheless reports that it's the most powerful storm to hit Haiti in a generation. As it makes landfall in Florida, Matthew has also broken the record for the longest lived hurricane of its strength in the eastern Caribbean, and it's only hurricane on record to have ever made landfall north of Miami along the east coast of Florida in October. But thanks to climate change, storms like Matthew are becoming more and more severe. As Seth Borenstein wrote at Phys.org recently, Hurricane Matthew is "wet, wild and weird", which is also a great way to describe the planet's climate now that we're clearly seeing the effects of global warming and climate change. The Atlantic's hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to November 30, but the statistical peak is September 10, when ocean temperatures are high and wind shear is low. That's changed now, and climate scientist James Hansen recently published a paper showing that Earth's global temperature right now is comparable only to a time 115,000 years ago, when that warming pushed the sea level up 20 to 30 feet higher than it is today. And as human activity has warmed the planet, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory point out that the oceans have dramatically warmed over the last century because "the ocean absorbs more than 90 percent of the Earth's excess heat increase that is associated with global warming. The observed ocean and atmosphere warming is a result of continuing greenhouse gas emissions." A warmer ocean and a warmer atmosphere means that there's more energy in the ocean and more energy in the atmosphere, and more energy in the ocean and in the atmosphere means more fuel for smaller tropical depressions to quickly grow into powerful superstorms, like Matthew did. Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann told the Huffington Post that "the nearly unprecedented rapid intensification we saw with this storm is favored by warmer oceans and greater ocean heat content." Part of this has to do with the fact that oceans aren't just getting warmer at the surface, they're getting warmer deep below the surface too. |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Support Indigenous Rights By Abolishing Columbus Day (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Be sure to check out our newest video: RESTORATION - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners / Visit GreenWorldRising.org to check out all the videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Need to Know: Is The Stock Market About to Crash
- Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy
Screwed: Why Are The Police Raiding Voter Registration?
- Spencer Woodman, The Intercept
PLUS, Is Yahoo Secretly Monitoring Emails?
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel
Best of the Rest: The Gilded Rage Exposed
- Alex Zaitchik, The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America.
PLUS, Support Indigenous Rights By Abolishing Columbus Day
- Deborah Menkart, Teaching For Change/Zinn Education Project
- Daniel Ruiz, Capital City Public Charter School.
AND, Has Fukushima Contaminated the Entire Pacific? - Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Daily Take: Now, Every Storm is a Climate Change Storm |
Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Climate Change: God is Really Upset With Rick Scott & Rush Limbaugh...
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