Hurricane misinformation is coming at a dangerous time

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-25 00:20:18 | Updated at 2024-10-25 02:31:49 2 hours ago

Hurricane misinformation is coming at a dangerous time
Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/23/2024 3 AM PT | Andra Garner

Posted on 10/24/2024 5:13:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

With about six weeks remaining in this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, we’ve already experienced multiple historic storms, vividly illustrating that as humans have warmed the planet, we have also made it more dangerous.

Beryl became a Category 5 hurricane in July, the earliest in the calendar year that any Atlantic hurricane on record has reached that magnitude; Helene yielded catastrophic flooding and damage from Florida to western North Carolina; Kirk traversed the Atlantic to bring damaging rain and winds to France; Milton — one of the fastest-intensifying storms on record — caused damage across Florida; and Oscar surprised forecasters this weekend by quickly becoming a hurricane and dumping flooding rains in the Caribbean. The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has made it abundantly clear that the consequences of climate change are here.

This hurricane season has also amplified another disturbing trend: misinformation about catastrophic weather extremes. For example, social media users have falsely claimed that Hurricanes Helene and Milton were created or steered by human technology. Such lies generate mistrust and anger, which are too often directed at meteorologists who work to save lives by providing accurate scientific forecasts warning those in harm’s way to evacuate.

Technology capable of creating or steering hurricanes does not exist outside of science fiction, or perhaps the lairs of cartoon villains. Humans shape extreme weather in another way: When we burn fossil fuels such as oil and gas, we release heat-trapping greenhouse gases that act as a blanket abnormally warming our planet. Scientists know that this human-caused warming is the real reason hurricanes such as Helene and Milton have become more dangerous.

This is where we need to focus our conversation — on understanding how climate change is...

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Such lies generate mistrust and anger, which are too often directed at meteorologists who work to save lives by providing accurate scientific forecasts warning those in harm’s way to evacuate.

Indirection.

Meteorologists have nothing to do with HAARP or cloud-seeding and do not try to control weather.

The US feral government and military, however...

To: E. Pluribus Unum

When we burn fossil fuels such as oil and gas, we release heat-trapping greenhouse gases that act as a blanket abnormally warming our planet. Scientists know that this human-caused warming is the real reason hurricanes such as Helene and Milton have become more dangerous.

This is false. Warming the planet does not produce more storms or stronger storms.

The global climate models generally place more warming nearer to the poles, and less in the tropics. It is the heat differential between the poles and the tropics which generate storms. The lower the temperature differential, the number of fronts decline as do the number of storms. Moreover, as the intensity of fronts decline, the intensity of storms decline.

2 posted on 10/24/2024 5:19:22 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )

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