This is an excellent, informative post, especially in explaining the physics of heat and vapor exchange between oceans and the atmosphere. Thanks for sharing your guest poster.
Great article guys. It’s understandably hard to model climate change’s impact on tropical storms with current data. Unfortunately, it looks like we might be getting more data soon—storm frequency and intensity changes.
And thank you for recommending Energy Resource Dynamics!
Kevin must have had Katrina on the brain when he inadvertently coupled Rita and Wilma from 2005 with Harvey in 2017. The quote from his paper correctly connects Harvey with Irma and Maria. This is indelibly etched in my mind because my mother-in-law, Irma, got 17 feet of water for Katrina. Otherwise, an excellent synopsis.
Poor old fellow, Roger Pielke. Does he wonder, when he wakes up in the morning, whether he will step onto the floor or walk along the ceiling - I mean who understands gravity?
Man has evolved from bacteria, fishes, crocodiles, monkeys. Evolution makes plenty of mistakes.
Why is everybody referring to climate change as something that is just happening - it is not like an incurable disease that requires palliative care, it is part of the misguided economic growth that results from bad economic institutions and the failures of society’s leaders.
Are we alone in making efforts to promote a national movement that will demand a response to global warming that is at least as radical as America’s response during WWII. We must shut down this economy and our government must, as emergency measure, organize public private partnership nonprofit enterprises that thoroughly reform our industries, transportation systems, land management, etc., as we describe in https://humanecivilization.org/climate-emergency/
I notice nothing said about rapid intensification and the possibility that we are seeing RI more often. I suspect the warmer ocean is the prime suspect in that as a developing storm increases wind driven spray and thus provides more energy to the boundary layer of these storms. Thoughts? Lots of examples of sequential events. Laura and Delta 2020 SW LA comes to mind.
Evocation of a suicide bomber, willing to die for your beliefs. I suggest you listen to Richard Alley explain why our CO2 is causing Earth to retain more energy from the Sun:
This is an excellent, informative post, especially in explaining the physics of heat and vapor exchange between oceans and the atmosphere. Thanks for sharing your guest poster.
Great article guys. It’s understandably hard to model climate change’s impact on tropical storms with current data. Unfortunately, it looks like we might be getting more data soon—storm frequency and intensity changes.
And thank you for recommending Energy Resource Dynamics!
Kevin must have had Katrina on the brain when he inadvertently coupled Rita and Wilma from 2005 with Harvey in 2017. The quote from his paper correctly connects Harvey with Irma and Maria. This is indelibly etched in my mind because my mother-in-law, Irma, got 17 feet of water for Katrina. Otherwise, an excellent synopsis.
Yes, that's an error and I've fixed it. Thanks! I'm disappointed I didn't catch it myself.
Kevin,
Could you (and or Andrew) comment on this by Roger Pielke
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149917652
I've asked him to comment on this one oy yours.
Poor old fellow, Roger Pielke. Does he wonder, when he wakes up in the morning, whether he will step onto the floor or walk along the ceiling - I mean who understands gravity?
Man has evolved from bacteria, fishes, crocodiles, monkeys. Evolution makes plenty of mistakes.
Why is everybody referring to climate change as something that is just happening - it is not like an incurable disease that requires palliative care, it is part of the misguided economic growth that results from bad economic institutions and the failures of society’s leaders.
Are we alone in making efforts to promote a national movement that will demand a response to global warming that is at least as radical as America’s response during WWII. We must shut down this economy and our government must, as emergency measure, organize public private partnership nonprofit enterprises that thoroughly reform our industries, transportation systems, land management, etc., as we describe in https://humanecivilization.org/climate-emergency/
I notice nothing said about rapid intensification and the possibility that we are seeing RI more often. I suspect the warmer ocean is the prime suspect in that as a developing storm increases wind driven spray and thus provides more energy to the boundary layer of these storms. Thoughts? Lots of examples of sequential events. Laura and Delta 2020 SW LA comes to mind.
This is low-quality climate denial. You're welcome to read the substack and learn some things, but write better posts or you're banned.
Evocation of a suicide bomber, willing to die for your beliefs. I suggest you listen to Richard Alley explain why our CO2 is causing Earth to retain more energy from the Sun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVb--2-PBg
If you have questions Prof Dessler will likely indulge you to ask them here. Climate science is perhaps the most scrutinised science in history.