According to the Democrat candidate for president, "When it comes to protecting our country against natural disasters and the threat of climate change, once again, Donald Trump is totally unfit and unqualified to be our President." Implied in Hillary's statement is that she is fit and qualified to protect the USA from natural disasters and the threat of climate change. But how?
The answer was delineated by reporter Ron Allen, who said, “It’s very interesting that this is happening a day when there’s a hurricane bearing down on the United States and in the Caribbean, because these severe storms, beach erosions, intense weather episodes that we’ve had is perhaps the most practical sample of what the president was talking about as the threat that the planet faces... [This] is what this whole climate agreement signed by 190 nations and now ratified by 60 or so is designed to stop.”
Will this agreement also stop tornadoes, snowstorms, and earthquakes?
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I would suggest that both candidates and others read what climate change means, how it is studied, etc. and how the scientists came to the conclusion(s) that they came to. I would suggest both candidates and others make sure they understand the difference between weather and climate. I just don't get why anyone would be against reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In just over 2 days time Matthew went from 60mph winds to 150 mph winds. For a storm to strengthen that quick, what would cause such a thing?
I'm sure the storm strengthened so rapidly because of climate change. I'm just not sure why that would strengthen it rather than weaken it.
Remember when you use to get in the ocean and the water was cooler down by your feet than at your neck? Well, that is not always true anymore. The water is now just as warm, or certainly not as cool as it use to be, deeper down than it is on the surface. When a hurricane forms it uses the warmer water to strengthen itself. However, as it churns up the water it also grabs some cooler water that helps dampen it's strength. This storm found very little cooler watering the Caribbean as it formed and strengthened.
The science on climate change makes perfect sense if you look at it in a non political way. As long as you accept the fact that "to much" CO2 in the atmosphere is not a good thing and that it traps to much reflective heat from escaping back into space it all makes sense. NO CO2, or not enough CO2 in the atmosphere we all die. To much and we have changes in our climate and weather systems like hurricanes that cannot find that cooler water will become more likely.
No scientist has ever said this causes hurricanes, or blizzards, or droughts. What they have said is it can cause nastier storms, longer droughts, new drought areas. We've now reached 400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. A number not seen for over 400,000 years if I remember correctly. But by all means let's just chug along and do nothing. What the heck, you and I will be dead, so why should we care. IF raising my electric bill $10 a month is what I have to pay for us to start working on and using renewable and cleaner energy, then raise my bill $10. I want my grandchildren to Iive in a healthy environment.
PS you really should read the science on this. I read some of it, but a lot I got going to employee seminars while working at NASA, since I worked on satellites that took a lot of these measurements they are using today.
The candidate who says it's a Chinese hoax will not be getting my vote.
The theories sound nice, but the reality of the recent past doesn't support them. We have seen very very few serious storms over the past ten years. And common sense tells me that it is impossible to prove whether Matthew would have been less intense if it had arisen under the exact same circumstances 10 or 20 years ago. As you pointed out, there is a difference between climate and weather. And I don't think measuring the weather for a short period of 100 years is long enough to determine if the climate is actually shifting in a meaningful way due to human influence. Does global climate change over time? Yes. Is is because of us? Can we influence it in any significant way? Is it a greater threat to us than Islamic Jihadism? The atomic bomb? Moral corruption? The answer to those questions is more a matter of political ideology than science.
We have seen very few hurricanes over the past ten years. But the world is made up of more than just America. The Pacific and indian oceans have seen a few major storms over the past ten years. Climate change also effects more than just storms. But I will go back and say again...read the science.
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