El Nino could slow the remainder of hurricane season
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/fl-el-nino-update-20150910-story.html
Flexing its atmospheric muscle, an unusually potent El Niño already has made for a significantly slower than normal hurricane season, keeping most of the systems weak and short-lived.
It likely will slow down the remainder of the storm season, Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, said on Thursday.
“Without doubt, El Niño is creating the factors that play into an inactive season,” he said. “Clearly, nothing will change over the next few months.”…
‘The active hurricane era that brought us Katrina and Sandy may be over’ – ‘2015 season running at just 50% of normal’
During this positive phase, when ocean temperatures are warm and ripe in the tropical Atlantic, pressure and wind patterns are also altered in such a way that favor Atlantic hurricane formation and intensification. This pattern was also seen in earlier historical hurricane periods, and is likely driven by fluctuations in the Atlantic’s warm water conveyor belt, the thermohaline circulation, which is driven by the ocean temperature and its salinity.
But in 2013, this pattern changed considerably, with colder than average water emerging in the northern and tropical Atlantic, while warm water developed off of the East Coast. This shift leads us to ask if the AMO is driving active and inactive hurricane regimes, and if so, does this mean we have indeed entered an inactive period.
Cli-FI: New Study apes Hollywood: ‘Global warming can trigger a cooling trend’ – Climate scientists fear ‘Day After Tomorrow’ scenario
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/climate-scientists-fear-day-after-tomorrow-scenario
In the 2004 disaster-flick “Day After Tomorrow,” abrupt man-made climate change knocks the planet into a state of utter chaos. At the time, the movie’s vision of the apocalypse wasn’t seen as realistic. But that’s begun to change.
Two new studies deepen the fear that global warming could shut down the circulation of the oceans, much as the movie portrays, dropping vast stretches of Asia into drought and exposing the whole Northern Hemisphere to severe ice and snow.…
Gov. Jerry Brown to Ben Carson: Do your homework on climate change
The retired neurosurgeon, who is challenging front runner Donald Trump in the polls, told us he didn’t buy the notion that the climate effects are human-caused.
“I know there are a lot of people who say ‘overwhelming science,’ but then when you ask them to show the overwhelming science, they never can show it,” Carson said in an interview Tuesday with The Chronicle after his sold-out appearance at the Commonwealth Club. “There is no overwhelming science that the things that are going on are man-caused and not naturally caused.
“Gimme a break.”…
Exposing the Warmist film ‘Merchants of Doubt’
Republicans plan attack on Paris UN Climate Treaty
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/gop-congress-climate-pact-paris-213382
Administration officials say they are confident that Republicans won’t succeed in undermining the international agreement. So far, foreign diplomats do not appear to have been rattled by GOP opposition. Negotiations are moving forward, and many countries remain confident that they’ll be able to strike a deal in Paris, even if the agreement isn’t strong enough on its own to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/gop-congress-climate-pact-paris-213382#ixzz3lSB6dCBx…
‘For The Last Time, No, The Syrian Crisis Was Not Caused By Climate Change’
Southern Ocean back in business as a carbon sink (models were wrong)
The Southern Ocean absorbs 40% of the global oceanic uptake in CO2. For most of the last ten years researchers thought it was weaker, or at “saturation” point and not able to absorb more CO2. Instead, it looks like it has been absorbing more again and by the year 2010 was back up to full power. This means there was a lot more natural variation than scientists (and their models) thought.The GCM’s are meant to be coupled ocean and atmosphere models, but they don’t understand the ocean part.
Back in 2007, New Scientist declared the slowdown has “far reaching implications”, things were worse than the IPCC’s projections. Things were 20 years ahead of the IPCC’s schedule and it was “scary”:…