From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 08:20:26 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> > No global warming HA! Warmer temperatures equals more
> > evaporation and more energy to power tropical storms.
> > Its going to get worse (much worse) before it gets better. Robert
>
> The real problem is we haven't built the proper water control
> features. More carbon dioxide and more evaporation means
> plants will grow better, so we can grow more biomass more
> quickly, to convert to alcohol to power our detroits.
>
> With the proper means of water control, we all win. Global
> warming is then a good thing. Without water control, we lose.
Yes. The flooding in Houston is not due to global warming, but concrete
and blacktop. When paving prevents rainfall from soaking into the
ground, flashflooding results.
Additionally, the historical record shows that the first half of the
20th century had 3/4 of the worst hurricaines (measured by wind
velocity, rainfall, and death count) of that century, while the second
half of the 20th, which was allegedly the period with the most rapid
rate of 'global warming' in history, only had 1/4 of the worst storms of
that century, and the only reason they were so bad was the dollar value
of the damages, which is more a measure of how much real estate
development has occured, not how bad the weather was. If you adjust for
the amount of human habitation and development over the century, it
would indicate that actually about 90% of the bad weather occured in the
first half of the century, which was before global warming allegedly got
underway at all significantly.
Storm physics is a matter of extremes of temperature, the greater the
extremes, the more energetic and violent the storms. Since with 'global
warming', the current trend shows the polar regions are warming faster
than the equatorial regions, this means that with global warming, storm
activity will actually decrease and become less and less violent, an
obvious boon for humanity and the real estate industry.
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